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Nov 23, 2020

Following our recent podcast featuring Dr Farzana Hussain, we catch up this week with Dr Hussain Gandhi, aka Dr Gandalf to his own eGPlearning Podblast listeners, to hear about how his year in post as Clinical Director for Nottingham City East PCN has gone, in the backdrop of all the challenges presented by Covid, the flu vaccination programme and the new PCN DES specs (to name but a few). Gandhi talks to Ben about his own reflections within his role, how his teams have fared, how they are dealing with increased pressure and their plans for the future which include expansion of the team and the services they can offer.

 

Introduction (31 secs)

Sustaining the initial excitement of being Clinical Director despite a particularly gruelling year (45 secs)

Relationship development within the network area (1 min 23 secs)

Sink or swim? (2 mins 49 secs)

The explosion of tech in general practice (3 mins 31 secs)

Adoption of digital process and the impact on multi-disciplinary working and setting up new services (4 mins 36 secs)

How are Nottingham City East using the additional roles scheme? (6 mins 17 secs)

Gandhi’s thoughts on the network manager post and recognising the efforts of Practice Managers over the last 12 months (8 mins 16 secs)

The practicalities of employing a network manager / designing the role (9 mins 42 secs)

Progress on the additional clinical roles (10 mins 27 secs)

Time management (11 mins 56 secs)

Short and long-term strategies for employment of additional roles (12 mins 26 secs)

PCN DES specs (13 mins 42 secs)

Coping with an escalating workload (15 mins 12 secs)

The importance of saying “no” (16 mins 4 secs)

Main reflections and highlights from the last 12 months (16 mins 41 secs)

What happens next? (17 mins 45 secs)

The eGPlearning Podblast (19 mins 8 secs)

Finding out more (19 mins 57 secs)

 

 

The link to the eGPlearning YouTube channel is here

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