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Minesh Patel is the Chair of the National Association for Primary Care and he joins us this week to explain what lessons the NAPC’s Primary Care Home programme has for emerging Primary Care Networks (PCNs). He focuses on wide engagement, the multi-disciplinary team and leadership. He looks at the different challenges of voluntary and mandated networks and has some sound advice for the new Clinical Directors of PCNs.

What is a Primary Care Home? (0:55)
A forerunner of Primary Care Networks – evolving (3:17)
Building on progress supported by the new resources (3:58)

Key lessons learnt:
1. The power of wide engagement (4:50)
2. Managing population health (5:41)
3. The strengths of the MDT (6:17)

Developing a strong vision (6:42)
Introducing new roles – a skills approach (7:49)
Strategic vs practical and immediate (9:11)
Working with community teams (10:47)
Relationships between leadership teams (11:53)
Distributed leadership (12:50)
The challenges for Primary Care Homes – supporting the leadership (13:18)
Differing challenges of voluntary and mandated networks (14:45)
Advice to the new Clinical Directors (16:06)
What’s the likely future for general practice? (17:05)
Finding out more (18:11)

The NAPC Primary Care Home website pages can be found here
For more information about the Diploma in Advanced Primary Care Management, please click here

The previous podcasts on Primary Care Homes that Ben mentions can be found below:
Nav Chana from the NAPC
Stewart Smith in St Austell
Jonathan Cope in Plymouth
Steve Kell in Bassetlaw