The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey

In this episode, we welcome Jemma Bella to the Business of Healthcare podcast to share her experiences of living with long covid.   What is long COVID? Most people with COVID-19 feel better within a few days or weeks of their first symptoms and make a full recovery within 12 weeks. For some people, symptoms can last longer. This is called long COVID or post COVID-19 syndrome. Long COVID is a new c...

In this podcast, Tara takes us behind the business of THC Primary Care and shares her quarterly review along with candidly sharing what she stopped, started and will continue doing moving forward. 1.     The course and training portfolio 2.     The Interim primary care network management portfolio 3.     The increase in facilitation and consultancy 4.     Wins for the quarter and achieving 100,000...

It has been a pleasure having Dr Shivani Sharma on The Business of Healthcare Podcast this week. Dr  Shivani Sharma is Head of the Department of Psychology, Sport, and Geography at the University of Hertfordshire. She is an advocate for making health and psychological care accessible and equitable for all, mitigating disadvantages arising from factors such as ethnicity, economic means, gender, dis...

Kay Keane is a Practice Manager and a Director and Co founder of the Institute of General Practice Management . In this episode Tara & Kay discuss; Life as a Practice Manager  Homeless Healthcare across the city of Manchester Why Kay helped form the Institute of General Practice Management, with 1,600 members Using social media for the better of the practice Tara had an inspiring conversation with...

Yuen Toh is a Clinical Pharmacist and a master of managing her portfolio career! As a Mum of two, Clinical Director, system equality leader, podcaster and soon to be GP Partner, she is spinning many plates but still strongly advocates for maintaining clear personal and professional boundaries to ensure we can be the best in each of the roles we hold. We discussed: How to manage portfolio working a...

As CEO of Manage Your Mind, an organisation which aims to develop the mental resilience of staff working across health and social care, Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE is passionate about enhancing peoples wellbeing and resilience, their ability to build relationships, transform partnerships, and keeping people focused, motivated and moving.  Also a GP, ex-Medical Director, independent management consultan...

It's our first solo podcast episode in a while after our Best Practice partnership which we enjoyed hugely! - Did you enjoy them?! Do you have a favourite?! We'd love to read any of your reviews that you can submit via your podcast streaming platform. This week Tara is sharing our experiences from Best Practice 2023, strategic planning, being bold, brave and ambitious and our thoughts on if we kne...

Best Practice is here!   And with it, we offer the last in the Business of Healthcare / Best Practice podcast series and our final guest, Ardens Manager Director, Best Practice speaker and newlywed, Laura Wickham (formerly Tomlin).   Regualr listeners will know that Laura is a favourite on our podcast and she returns this time with some exciting updates about the latest Ardens Manager features whi...

With less than one day until the Primary Care relocation to Best Practice 2023 in Birmingham, we offer another episode with one of the event's key speakers, Dr Farah Jameel! Farah is a Mum to two young children, a GP, LMC Co-Chair, a Non-Executive Director and former BMA GP Committee Chair - and a beacon of inspiration to Primary Care leaders, particularly those juggling a portfolio career.  Farah...

Daniel Vincent is the CEO of Enhanced Primary Care; an organisation he established to assist practices in accessing their unclaimed FP34 income. He is the Co-Founder of Locum Practice Manager and Primary Care Workflow Solutions, whose mission is to address the issue of Practice Manager burnout. He is also the Co-Founder of Primary Care Workflow Solutions who link practices with high quality remote...

Georgina Craig is the National Director of The Experience Led Care Programme; an organisation which is driven by their ambition to put the patient and their families at the heart of health and care services, working across the UK to help clinicians and the wider NHS to scale-up person-centred change.   Georgina is a passionate advocate of improving outcomes for people; both from the patient perspe...

In this episode, Tara talks again to Access Elemental Managing Director and Co-Founder Jennifer Neff who is joined by Alan Payne, Group Product and Engineering Director at The Access Group. Tara picks up where she last left off with Jennifer, following the partnership of Elemental with The Access Group. For those who aren't familiar with their journey already, Access Elemental is a leading social...

I am delighted to be joined in this episode of by Danny Bartlett, Lead Pharmacist at Horsham Central Primary Care Network. Starting life as a community pharmacist, Danny has nearly ten years experience across multiple sectors of pharmacy and made the move into Primary Care in 2019. He also forms part of the senior lecturer team at the University of Brighton (teaching on the MPharm degree) and is a...

It's a pleasure to welcome Phin Robinson back to the podcast. Phin is the Founder and a Director at Pure Physiotherapy, established in 2006 and employing 350 physiotherapists. As part of their business model, Pure Physiotherapy support Primary Care Networks with the provision of First Contact Physiotherapists. Phin also teaches on some University programs and delivers training courses for those wi...

Dr Adrian Hayter is a GP with more than a quarter of a century's worth of experience within his local Windsor-based practice and is the NHS England's National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person-Centred Care. He is a Non Exective Director for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and supports the Frimley Academy with their leadership programmes.  Adrian will also be a featured...

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr Ishani Patel back to the Business of Healthcare podcast for her third appearance. In the lead up to Best Practice 2023, we are privileged to feature a host of Best Practice guests to learn more about them as leaders and people. In her role as a GP Partner, Digital First Clinical Lead and Co-Founder of Lantum, we are excited to catch up with Ishani and t...

As part of our Business of Healthcare podcast build up to Best Practice 2023, Tara sits down with Professor James Kingsland OBE, GP, Independent Health Advisor and formally the Senior Partner in a nationally renowned, award winning General Practice in the North West of England.  Amongst his many titles, James holds an Honorary position as a clinical professor in the School of Medicine at the Unive...

Dr Dustyn Saint is a GP Partner and Founder of Primary Care IT, who support innovation within individual GP surgeries via the introduction of the best available IT solutions and applications. In the lead up to Best Practice 2023, Dustyn joins Tara in our latest Business of Healthcare / Best Practice podcast episode to discuss: The small but important things we can do to build a positive organisati...

Welcome to the latest in our Business of Healthcare / Best Practice podcast series! Our featured guest in this episode is Dr Neil Modha; Peterborough-based GP Partner, ICP lead, GP Federation Chairman and Deputy Lieutenant to the King (no less for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough! In this episode, Tara and Dr Neil Modha discuss: 1.     Why Neil returns to the Best Practice Conference each year 2.  ...

Please be introduced to our latest Best Practice / Business of Healthcare podcast guest Dr Nick Merrifield; GP,  Clinical Director, Federation Director, father, violinist, runner, and cyclist (amongst other things)! Nick is a total breath of fresh air at (what can often feel like) a truly testing time for Primary Care and his infectious positivity and firm belief in the PCN agenda really shone thr...

In the lead up to Best Practice 2023 which takes place in Birmingham on 11 and 12 October, Tara will be interviewing a number of keynote speakers, session chairs, panellists, and featured guests to really whet your appetite ahead of the show. Our aim is to not only get the lowdown on their roles and the work they are doing but to also dig deeper and learn more about them as people; their personal...

As we wrap up for a few weeks off over the summer, I wanted to consider where we are at, now we are over the halfway point of the year and before we ramp up for a super busy autumn and winter ahead. This week on the podcast, I invite you to join me behind the business, to learn more about what we do, why we do it, and where we are aiming for next! I discuss: Where to go to access THC training and...

In this episode, Tara talks to Vincent Sai, CEO of Modality, a GP super partnership. For practices which are not part of a super partnership, there can sometimes be the perception that the partnership is all about money. Following discussions with Vincent (and other Modality colleagues) we now know that, whilst the finances are an important factor, Primary Care professionals choose their vocation...

With the numbers of women of menopausal age in employment at an all time high, I have been really keen to promote the topic of menopause, and the need for frank and open discussion about it, for some time now. Allow me to introduce you to Kate Organ; Consultant Clinical Pharmacist, British Menopause Society Menopause Specialist - and founder of The Menopause Specialists, who are a team of experien...

This week on The Business of Healthcare Podcast I am discussing how to build legitimacy and enhance your creditability. Having a boundary spanning role and building legitimacy go hand in hand.  It can feel like you are constantly trying to build legitimacy and when you join a new organisation – you have to start from scratch and you have to show who you are and share your values.  Other people can...