Following on from last week’s theme, Ben asks Dr Nav Chana and Dr Tracey Vell for their views on the problems and the progress of PCNs. What are their experiences of PCNs? What are the perceptions of the new models of care across general practice? Where do the threats and opportunities lie?

Introductions (46 secs)

Tracey and Nav’s personal experiences of PCNs summed up (1 min 15 secs)

Working together; impact on structure and investment opportunities (2 mins 45 secs)

What’s happening in Nav’s PCN (3 mins 47 secs)

Are PCNs too inward looking from a general practice perspective? (5 mins 48 secs)

The impact of change and using change as a mechanism for improvement (7 mins)

The PCN paradox (8 mins 14 secs)

Tracey: where practices can use PCNs to focus on their priorities (9 mins 20 secs)

The challenges of linear development (10 mins 15 secs)

The Maturity Matrix (11 mins 34 secs)

How do we support enable innovative working in PCNs from the start? (12 mins 14 secs)

Plug in now to integrated care systems and why not to wait (13 mins 24 secs)

Benefits at practice level from working within a network (15 mins 16 secs)

…and the challenges (16 mins 33 secs)

The current perception of PCNs (16 mins 54 secs)

A threat to command and control? (18 mins 47 secs)

Working at scale = larger resources (21 mins)

Integration of PCNs within the wider healthcare system (22 mins 4 secs)

Population Health Management as a tool for building a successful PCN (23 mins 1 sec)

NAPC resources and case studies (24 mins 7 secs)

Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme (25 mins 9 secs)

 

The links for both the NAPC’s material and the Greater Manchester GP Excellence programme:

https://napc.co.uk

https://gpexcellencegm.org.uk