Dr Mark Newbold is an experienced NHS doctor, manager and academic who, until recently, was Managing Director of the Birmingham super-practice, Our Health Partnership. In this wide-ranging discussion Ben and Mark focus on the bigger picture: the strategic implications of Primary Care Networks and the role of general practice in integrated care systems. They cover everything from leadership and influence to scale and accountability. Mark begins by describing the introduction of PCNs as “an NHS led…radical process of transformation”

Show Notes

Mark updates us on what he has been doing (1min 06secs)

NHS-led transformation (1min 39secs)

Moving from “institution” to “system” (2mins 43secs)

Bringing general practice into the system (3mins 18secs)

General practice is the foundation of integrated care (3mins 46secs)

Size, scale and influence (4mins 53secs)

The question of existing at-scale general practice (6mins 23secs)

Tiers of collaboration (7mins 36secs)

Geographic spread and the “offer” of working at-scale (9mins 47secs)

Differentiating the “offer” for member and non-member practices in an at-scale organisation (10mins 34secs)

The Clinical Director role (11mins 56secs)

The future for Community Trusts (12mins 44secs)

The balance of power between general practice and Community Trusts – emerging GP leaders (13mins 27secs)

PCNs – beginning of the end for independent general practice? (14mins 58secs)

A collective approach (16mins 06secs)

Evolving a new model of general practice (17mins 20secs)

The accountability of integrated care systems (18mins 04secs)

Taking a long term view (19mins 01secs)

A discussion forum for GPs (20mins 36secs)

The GP View website Mark mentions can be accessed here

Our previous podcasts with Mark on the setting up of Our Health Partnership can be found below:

Episode 13 – Our Health Partnership: The story so far

Episode 41 – Progress with a super-partnership

Episode 79 – The further adventures of a super-partnership

Episode 109 – Our Health Partnership – the story continues