Podcast – Conor Burke & Simon Abrams – Urgent Health UK

Today, Ben is joined by both Conor Burke and Simon Abrams from Urgent Health UK. UHUK is a long-standing membership organisation, committed to providing the highest quality of care for patients. UHUK’s members provide out-of-hours and clinical assessment services whilst sharing expertise and knowledge amongst the members, as well as benchmarking their quality against each other. Ben, Conor & Simon discuss the recent changes, how they have affected their members and the potential tension it could cause between members and General Practices. Conor and Simon kindly share their advice for PCNs and Practices who want to create partnerships in the future.    Introduction (0:09)   UHUKs organisations (0:52)   Organisations involvement (2:21)   Simon's role (3:29)   Have the changes impacted UHUKs members? (4:47)   Potential tension between UHUK members and General Practices (5:45)   Thoughts around same day access.. (9:00)   Advice for PCNs & General Practices who want to create partnerships? (15:10)   Could future changes help partnerships grow? (16:59)   What makes partnerships difficult? (20:24)   Visit the UHUK website here.   Conor and Simon can be contacted using the following email address’ [email protected] & [email protected].   For all enquiries about the Ockham podcast, please contact Ben Gowland here.