This week heralds the return of inspirational GP Dr Farzana Hussain, who runs The Project Surgery in Plaistow, east London, is Clinical Director of her local PCN and 2019’s GP of the Year, amongst other key roles where she champions innovation and quality improvement in primary care. Farzana is back to share her thoughts on the last year in her role as Clinical Director and what comes next for her Newham PCN. From the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) rollout, to going back to basics and defining local objectives, readying teams, and staff, for the move towards integrated care and the associated shift in her priorities, leading on an emotive and truly rewarding local project and attempting to redress the health inequalities balance, the pace of work continues to be unrelenting and 2022 looks set to be equally challenging. Listen here as Ben takes time to explore Farzana’s hopes, frustrations, achievements and aims in our latest podcast episode.

 

Introduction (10 secs)

An overview of the last year (30 secs)

The challenges of the ARRS (1 min 47 secs)

Why shared purpose is so important (2 mins 53 secs)

Preparing for integrated care systems (4 mins 24 secs)

Farzana’s view on the change in PCN deliverables (5 mins 19 secs)

Identifying priority areas (7 mins 12 secs)

Juggling practice and PCN priorities (8 mins 26 secs)

The Newham knife crime project (11 mins 24 secs)

The role of the Youth Link Worker and partnering with local community groups (13 mins 36 secs)

Levelling up the health inequalities imbalance (14 mins 54 secs)

What’s next for Farzana? (15 mins 40 secs)

Feeling the benefit of the additional roles (17 mins 3 secs)

Can we take control of the ICS agenda? (19 mins 8 secs)