The dust has certainly not settled on the very recent NHS England publication on improving access for patients and supporting general practice and in the latest of our joint Practice Index / Ockham Healthcare podcast series, our ‘fab four’ react. Our now infamous panel of Practice Management extraordinaires and Institute of General Practice Management founders and directors, Nicola Davies, Robyn Clark, Kay Keane and Jo Wadey, talk to Ben about what’s been set out within the document and how they feel about it, following an outcry from IGPM members and primary care colleagues alike. From the risks posed by the way the funding has been set out, to an apparent lack of understanding about the reality on the ground right now, where this leaves the sector and how general practice could be better supported, the quartet tell us why the latest guidance falls so far short and share their concerns about what the future holds for a primary care which is already at crisis level.

Introduction (25 secs)

Initial reactions (46 secs)

Key concerns (1 min 14 secs)

Performance based funding (1 min 40 secs)

A lack of understanding about what’s happening on the ground (2 mins 52 secs)

The contradiction of improved access and promotion of remote consultations (4 mins 13 secs)

How should practices respond? (6 mins 28 secs)

Are there any useful takeaways from the publication? (8 mins 17 secs)

Onus on commissioners (9 mins 42 secs)

The risk of perverse incentivisation (10 mins 15 secs)

How can general practice be better supported right now? (11 mins)

IGPM response (11 mins 27 secs)

Feedback from individual practice managers (12 mins 52 secs)

An undeliverable expectation? (13 mins 21 secs)

A sign of things to come? (15 mins 33 secs)

The IGPM one year on and what is happening next (17 mins 19 secs)

 

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