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Nick Hicks has been a GP and a Chief Executive and Director of Public Health for a PCT. He is now CEO of an independent consultancy called COBIC focussing on outcomes-based health and care. In this podcast Nick describes how the experience of working directly with communities to discuss their health outcomes led to the formation of COBIC. He describes a system of outcome-based contracting that creates the conditions for innovation and outlines for Ben the fundamentals of accountable care.

Show Notes

Nick describes the frustrations that led to forming COBIC (49secs)

The old way of contracting (1mins 50secs)

The public want outcomes (2mins 16secs)

A new way of contracting (3mins 11secs)

The name COBIC (4mins 30 secs)

Creating the conditions for innovation (4mins 40secs)

Is this accountable care? (6mins 22secs)

How will this work in the future – more strategic commissioning and collaborative providers (7mins 16secs)

Setting outcomes – the five areas communities want (9mins 50secs)

The national outcomes framework (11mins 09secs)

Is population size relevant? (11mins 45secs)

How do we avoid money being the driver? (12mins 52secs)

Accountable care systems and the public (13mins 44secs)

Is accountable care inevitable? Should we prepare now? (15mins 23secs)

What should practices be doing now? (16mins 44secs)

Contacting Nick (18mins 45secs)

You can contact Nick at Nicholas.Hicks@cobic.co.uk

The COBIC website is available here.