It’s the third in our series of podcasts focused on the preparations for Integrated Care Systems! This time, we meet with Adrian Loades, who is the Corporate Director of People at the London Borough of Redbridge, responsible for Adults and Children’s Social Care (and Education), and Public Health within his remit. Adrian chats to Ben about his thoughts on the preparations and the build up so far towards the new systems of working, the priorities on the local council agenda and how these already align with much of what primary care is aiming to achieve, how general practice and local authorities can come together to establish strong, multi-agency partnerships and ultimately, what we need to do in practice, across the board, to maximise health outcomes in an integrated world.
Introduction (9 secs)
Meeting Adrian (40 secs)
Adrian’s experiences of working within the local authority (1 min 5 secs)
Is there a council perspective on general practice? (2 mins 20 secs)
The barriers to establishing relationships with general practice, from the council’s point of view (3 mins 43 secs)
Collective working through the pandemic (4 mins 44 secs)
Examples of strong multi-agency initiatives (5 mins 59 secs)
The health inequalities agenda (7 mins 10 secs)
Moving into an ICS environment (8 mins 9 secs)
Neighbourhoods and place-based working (9 mins 28 secs)
Are councils and general practice natural allies when it comes to embedding a place-based approach within an ICS? (11 mins 7 secs)
How will working at place, actually work in practice? (11 mins 45 secs)
What are the key factors when it comes to embedding a place-based approach? (13 mins)
Adrian’s advice for general practice in making a success of working at place (14 mins 12 secs)
Focusing on the needs of the residents, instead of prioritising a political agenda (15 mins 23 secs)
Cultivating relationships with those who can influence council leaders (17 mins 3 secs)
Neighbourhoods and Primary Care Networks (18 mins 4 secs)
The local authority view of PCNs (20 mins 21 secs)
Leveraging PCNs as a means for establishing strong neighbourhoods (20 mins 58 secs)
Advice for PCNs on building relationships within the wider ICS network (21 mins 56 secs)
Support for general practice on sourcing additional space (23 mins 2 secs)
Who to contact at local authority level (23 mins 59 secs)
PCN Plus (24 mins 32 secs)
There are still a few spaces left on our PCN Plus online programme! Aimed at new PCN Clinical Directors, and experienced PCN Managers, and featuring a team of experts, we will be delivering training and advise on all the need to knows, including (and not limited to); establishment of a PCN vision, communications, managing finances and workforce, and preparations for integrated care systems. If you are interested in learning more, or you’re keen to sign up now, please visit our dedicated webpage or you can contact Ben for further information.
In the second of our series (and on the occasion of our 300th podcast episode), we focus on the preparations for, and the journey towards, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). We are delighted to feature Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust CEO (and NHS England lead for Community Health) Matthew Winn, to get his views on the existing relationship between community services and general practice, and what can be done to establish, enhance and improve existing partnerships locally, in readiness for the new models of care. It is a fascinating insight into how external partners perceive primary care both locally and centrally, and with the advent of new meeting forums, and new initiatives, how we can work together to meet the scale of demand from our patients, post Covid and beyond.
Introduction (9 secs)
Meeting Matthew (39 secs)
The scope of Matthew’s NHS England role (1 min 25 secs)
The future for Primary Care Networks (PCNs) (2 mins 36 secs)
The Community Services view of general practice right now (3 mins 51 secs)
Building relationships with general practice, an external perspective (6 mins 15 secs)
Big versus small? (8 mins)
Reaching out at a local level (10 mins 14 secs)
The remit of place-based Boards (12 mins 47 secs)
A new opportunity to re-establish local partnerships? (14 mins 4 secs)
A shift in strategic focus, where out of hospital is concerned (16 mins 23 secs)
Hospital at Home and virtual wards (18 mins 31 secs)
Thoughts about leadership for the future and upskilling our GPs (20 mins 18 secs)
Matthew’s advice about establishment of stronger relationships with Community Services teams (23 mins 1 sec)
Who should we reach out to? (25 mins 21 secs)
Further information and resources (26 mins 35 secs)
Here is the link to the NHS England and NHS Improvement workspace on futureNHS