The GP Excellence Podcast supports the GP Excellence programme, responding to what is most important to Primary Care Networks.
Whether you’re a GP, a manager or part of the administration team, you all have a key role to play and this series will arm you with advice and knowledge to help you do your job better and improve the patient experience.
Throughout the series, we’ll be speaking to expert guests in the area of inequalities, business development and much more. If you would like us to cover a topic, let us know: gm.gpexcellence@nhs.net
You may also be interested in the Primary Care Knowledge Boost podcast. This is all things general practice and led by doctors Sara and Lisa as they interview specialists from around Greater Manchester, with the aim of improving the confidence and knowledge of local primary care clinicians.
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Equality and Diversity in General Practice – February 2023
A Primary Care Knowledge Boost (PCKB) podcast. Join doctors doctors Lisa Adams and Sara MacDermott as they interview specialists from around Greater Manchester with the aim of improving the confidence and knowledge of local primary care clinicians.
In this episode of the GP Excellence Podcast Lisa and Sara talk to Dr Maiedha Raza to find out her take on issues of Equality and Diversity in General Practice.
This is a gentle dive into the very complex world of diversity and inclusivity with messages of how we can improve our culture in the NHS.
Supporting resources for this episode contain great suggestions for further learning. You can use these podcasts as part of your Continuous Professional Development.
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How can you support sustainability in general practice? – September 2022
In this episode of the GP Excellence Podcast, Dr Joanna Bircher is joined by Dr David McKelvey, Salford GP Salford and NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Clinical Lead in Sustainability in Primary Care, to talk about the crucial ways you can support sustainability in general practice.How conscious or proactive is your practice when it comes to sustainability?
The NHS has a plan to become net zero by 2040, but what does that mean for you and your team and how can you help achieve that?
One area you could look at is prescribing inhalers which contributes to 13 per cent of carbon emissions. That’s one of the things we’re going to be talking about in this episode.Returning as host is Dr Joanna Bircher, GP in Stalybridge and Clinical Director, GP Excellence programme.
GP Community Pharmacist Consultation Service – September 2022
In this episode of the GP Excellence Podcast, we hear about the General Practice Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (GP CPCS), a pathway general practices use to refer patients with minor illness or low acuity conditions to a community pharmacist.
The GP CPCS was piloted and launched in Manchester in late 2020.
Our host for this episode is Dr Joanna Bircher, GP in Stalybridge and Clinical Director, GP Excellence programme.
Her guests are Luvjit Kandula, Director of Pharmacy Transformation for Great Manchester and Local Pharmaceutical Committee, Courtney Kenworthy, Lead Administrator for Hollywood Medical Practice in Oldham, and Russell Nolan, Community Pharmacist working in Oldham and out of St Chad’s.
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Rethinking navigation for PCNs – November 2021
In the first episode of the GP Excellence Podcast, Simon Merchant and Scott Mallin, Directors of Interdigitate, discuss how they are supporting Greater Manchester Primary Care Networks to meet the needs of their patients in an enduring way.
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