“Dr Gandalf”, GP, eGPlearning podblast founder, and Ockham podcast favourite, is back with another fascinating insight into his most recent year as Clinical Director for Nottingham City East PCN. In this third instalment of his journey, Gandhi and Ben discuss the highlights of recent times, including the recruitment and expansion of a safeguarding care coordination service, how Nottingham East have embedded wider ARRS staff, the impact of the updated GP contracts within the network and on the patient population, preparations for the new world of integrated care in 2022 and what’s next on the agenda for Gandhi as he reflects on his achievements to date and why he remains as passionate as ever about his role.

 

Introduction (10 secs)

On how life is, right now (37 secs)

Practice vs PCN priorities (1 min 4 secs)

Maintaining individual identities within a wider network (2 mins 11 secs)

The Safeguarding Care Coordinator (3 mins 20 secs)

Recruitment of other additional roles (4 mins 23 secs)

Exploring the relationship between additional roles staff and the wider workforce (5 mins 39 secs)

Accommodating and integrating the ARRS teams (7 mins 16 secs)

The challenges presented by the new primary care contracts (7 mins 58 secs)

Gandhi’s view of the health inequalities risk presented by existing contractual targets (9 mins 38 secs)

How can we respond to contractual targets in practice? (10 mins 46 secs)

Reaction to the recent NHSE publication (12 mins)

Preparations for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) (14 mins 52 secs)

Where does the Clinical Director post sit in context with the LMCs and the development of the ICSs? (16 mins 43 secs)

Looking ahead… (17 mins 49 secs)

The best bits of clinical directorship (19 mins 25 secs)

 

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