Health Tech
Investing in proactive care
In today’s healthcare landscape, the focus is shifting towards proactive care and population health management as efficient strategies to optimise health outcomes while managing costs. keep reading
primary care network
Management
The evolving role of PCN clinical directors
As PCNs mark their four-and-a-half-year milestone, the transformative changes in the role of PCN Clinical Directors have become apparent. This evolution plays a pivotal role keep reading
Management
Learning from patient experiences: A guide for practice managers
The South East Primary Care Network (PCN) Leadership Development Programme, initially designed for PCN leaders, offers valuable insights for practice business managers. In this article, keep reading
Management
The role of your practice within a PCN
PCNs come in a variety of shapes and sizes while also operating differently – here’s how practices can help the network to progress and succeed keep reading
Practice Operations
Nine unintended consequences of devolving your PCN budgets
Knowing how to manage the devolution of your finances without conflict is a risk for most PCNs – here are nine things to consider before you keep reading
Management
The importance of ‘progressions’ in your PCN
Ben Gowland, director of Ockham Healthcare, and a former NHS CCG chief executive, believes that primary care networks need to start small in order to keep reading
Recruit and Retain
How to utilise your primary care network this winter  Â
As demand for GP appointments is set to increase this winter, how can primary care networks support busy practices? Primary care networks (PCNs) have been working keep reading
News
Efforts need ‘stepping up’ to meet 26,000 extra practice staff target
RCGP analysis of figures from NHS Digital show that as of September 2021 an estimated 9,500 full-time equivalent staff members (excluding GPs and practice nurses) keep reading
Comment
Additional roles in primary care – so much more than an extra pair of hands
Karen Garry, adviser with not-for-profit social enterprise organisation PCC, discusses how additional roles could benefit your practice We know that the introduction of the additional keep reading
Health & Patient Care
Pandemic threatens primary care for long term conditions
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention was diverted away from primary care’s key roles in early detection of disease and management of long keep reading