Priority setting in primary care - NHS insights

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How is the NHS balancing competing challenges as we head through integration and towards winter? How are priorities set and what does system planning look like in primary care?
Dr Alex Degan (Primary Care Medical Director, Devon Integrated Care System [ICS]) joins Tom Clarke (Director, Mtech Access) to explore all this and more.
In this episode, we explore how primary care leaders are reacting to the ongoing changes and challenges facing the NHS. Tom Clarke interviews primary care leader Alex Degan to explore:

• How priorities are set and what is driving change
• What system planning looks like in primary care
• The impact of integration – now in practice and for future planning
• How Pharma and Medtech can best support primary care

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This podcast was first released as a live webinar on Friday 19th August 2022. Watch the webinar recording here.
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Chapters

1. Tell us about your role and the system you work in (00:01:49)

2. How has primary care responded to the introduction of integrated care systems? (00:04:56)

3. What are the implications of the 'Fuller Stocktake Report' in reality for primary care? (00:08:06)

4. What's you understanding of the idea of an integrated neighbourhood team? (00:09:33)

5. With the introduction of ICBs, do you see real differences in how funding might come down to primary care? (00:17:21)

6. Why is collaborative working important for PCNs? (00:20:34)

7. In your role as the medical director, what are your top two or three priorities? (00:22:26)

8. What are you worried about for this winter? (00:24:50)

9. In regards to demand, are you looing at particular population groups / pathways of care? (00:31:32)

10. Is population health data useful to you now? (00:35:04)

11. Who is involved in the decision-making process? (00:36:50)

12. How involved is the voluntary sector in supporting primary care to manage demand (00:44:51)

13. What are the biggest areas of healthcare being negatively impacted? (00:48:30)

14. How do your concerns / priorities differ as a system leader and as a GP? (00:51:36)

15. If you had the resource, what would you do differently? (00:53:33)

16. What advice would you give industry for engaging with primary care? (00:57:37)