The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey

Tara discusses strategies and planning to make the return to work after a holiday feel more manageable. After a family trip to Spain this summer, Tara was feeling a bit anxious about what would be waiting for her when she returned to work in her healthcare consultancy. From prioritising, to good diary management and thinking ahead, these are Tara's tips returning to work after a holiday. In the ep...

Robert McCartney is a solicitor and founding director at McCartney Healthcare Associates. In this episode, Tara talks to Robert about the advent of primary care networks and his approach to helping general practices to work collaboratively under the new structures. Robert also talks about the importance of drawing up a network legal or partnership agreement to focus on the principles, rather than...

Dr Surina Chibber is a GP and co-founder of My Locum Manager. In this episode, Tara gets a behind-the-scenes look at how My Locum Manager began and Surina's approach to business. Surina shares practical tips and advice. She talks about how she balances motherhood with her work and shares some book recommendations. Surina shares her reflections on what her strengths are and how she has learnt new s...

Tara explores some often-overlooked elements required to run a successful project. Most project management specialists will follow a structured methodology, incorporating project scoping document, charter, controlled starts, version controls, quality assurance, implementation plans and communication and stakeholder plans. This is all perfectly logical and provides a consistent structure. However,...

Dr Farzana Hussain is a GP partner at her own practice in Newham. She is also a primary care network Clinical Director. In this interview Tara and Farzana talk about the process of setting up the local primary care network, and the challenges and opportunities of working together in a networked way. Farzana shares her thoughts about the importance of involving patients in scoping the services that...

Gary Hughes is a practice manager at the Waterfield practice in Berkshire and provides consultancy services, supporting practice managers and partners to develop their general practices. Tara talks to Gary about how he balances the strategic and day-to-day operational aspects of his role. Gary also discusses the role of social media and brand for general practices, and the ways practices can harne...

Tara introduces her new podcast: The Business of Healthcare . The podcast will share interviews, insights, project management and leadership training and lessons learnt from leaders in the field of healthcare. Tara runs her own primary care project management consultancy. Since completing her MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare, she has published more than 150 blog articles and has been...