Dr. K. sits down with Dr. Mark McClellan, Director and Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. They discuss moving from a Fee For Service payment model to Value Based Care payment model by integrating Primary Care Providers (PCPs) with Specialists to create a patient focused model built on high-touch, proactive care.  

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The Scope with Dr. K 

The Scope with Dr. K: Dr. Mark McClellan, MD, PhD

This episode is with Sam Plum, the inaugural Chief Executive of the new Westmorland and Furness Council. This council was created when Cumbria County Council split into two – so Westmorland and Furness has half the old County Council and the three districts, which used to sit in that geographical footprint.

This #RadicalReformers episode is part of the February "Place Leadership" theme of our #PrioritisingPublicServices campaign.

Sam gives her perspective on the different stages of implementing the change, starting with a period where the focus is on settling and stabilising. However, Sam has never lost sight of the forward vision and ensuring that the benefits of reorganisation are achieved for the people of Westmorland and Furness. Sam has some very clear ideas of what she wants to achieve in the long term, focusing on the three E's of equity, economy, and environment.

One of the really striking things for me in this conversation is how Sam sees herself as a “place” leader, not just the leader of an organisation. She is ready to focus on wider benefits rather than just those which directly impact the council. I think there are huge lessons to be drawn from this conversation for place leaders and council leaders everywhere.

Enjoy it!

Place Leadership With Sam Plum - Radical Reformers Podcast

Generally speaking, people in good health rarely need medications or have the need to see a specialist.  So, it’s probably natural that most give little thought to selecting a primary care provider.  At some point, though, everyone is going to feel under the weather, which might call for a medical opinion.  Primary care providers manage day-to-day health needs.  A long-term relationship with one keeps you healthier and lowers medical costs.  They can teach you ways to stay healthy, treat you when you’re sick and help you get more advanced care when you need it.  The relationship you build with your primary care provider is one of the most important ones you’ll ever have.

Equal Hope hosts, Equal Health. Tune in to hear how health experts and Equal Hope clients are working to address and eliminate health disparities in Chicago.

Equal Hope can help you obtain free mammograms, cervical screens, and a medical home, as well as COVID testing and vaccination. Equal Hope can also help you get a referral for emergency services (like food assistance, help with your utilities or your rent). 

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Primary Care and Prevention 3-2-24

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter interview FactCheck.org’s Managing Editor Lori Robertson who exposes false claims about health policy in the public domain and they end with a Bright Idea that’s improving health and well being in every day lives. Primary Care Collaborative President & CEO Ann Greiner joins Mark and Margaret to discuss better compensation and reimbursement for primary care clinicians and efforts to increase training, expanding access to community health centers, and opportunities for primary care to help as the country faces a mental health crisis. What will it take to get the United States to wake up to the need for better primary care? Tune into this week’s conversation to learn more.

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Conversations On Healthcare

Conversations on HC: Better Primary Care: What Will It Take to Get the U.S. to Wake Up to the Need?

This episode is with Sam Allen, the Chief Executive of the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System. 

This system covers a huge geography with 3.6m people living in both urban and rural settings in 14(!) different council areas. As you can imagine, getting this up and running was a real challenge and Sam explains how she has led that work and engaged with partners across the region. 

Sam understands really effective public services needs to be centred around the person and she has a very clear understanding of her role as a system leader focusing on the strategic things which are best done at scale while empowering places and neighbourhoods to do the really important locally focused work. 

A big segment of our conversation is on children’s health. We discuss how no one part of the system (NHS, councils, third sector) can hope to improve outcomes acting on their own. Genuine collaboration must be enabled from the system level all the way down to places and neighbourhoods. 

We also talk about women’s health and the importance of raising awareness and understanding particularly in the workplace. 

It’s a fantastic conversation and I hope you enjoy it.

System Leadership For Healthy Children And Families With Sam Allen - Radical Reformers Podcast

Kourtney Buhler, DNP, FNP-C, a certified family nurse practitioner with Phelps Health discusses diabetes and nutrition.

Diabetes and Nutrition | Kourtney Buhler, DNP, FNP-C | Ask the Professionals | Phelps Health

Professor Jane Gunn AO is a distinguished academic general practitioner and inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research at The University of Melbourne where she is also Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Jane grew up and went to school in rural Victoria, Australia. As the daughter of two teachers, she observed the transformative power of education - of both the mind and the body.

Jane’s trailblazing research into the complex interplay between mental and physical health, and the key role of general practice in maximising wellbeing, led to her appointment in 2009 as Inaugural Visiting Professor to the Scottish School of Primary Care to join an international team to investigate multiple long-term physical health problems (multimorbidity). Jane continues to champion the value of ‘Generalism’ and the Generalist approach, particularly regarding mental health care.

Jane Gunn

The number of primary care providers is seeing a steady decrease due to a number of factors like physician burnout, lower salaries, increased focus on specialty practice, and uneven distribution of providers, especially in rural or low income areas. The declining number of physicians could mean less access to primary care across the board, and an overall decrease of the collective health of American citizens. Patients share how important their providers are in their lives and for their health and wellbeing, pointing to the need to address this growing issue. Read more about this story at this link: https://medium.com/@morgan_gaffney/primary-care-a-vital-but-struggling-sect-of-healthcare-796ea93a8ce4.

Patient Experience Emphasizes Growing Need to Address Decreasing Number of Primary Care Providers

Host Tom Foley invites Thomas S. Campanella, JD, MA, healthcare Executive in Residence at Baldwin Wallace University. They discuss FSS vs VBC along with Tom’s recently published articles, Fixing Medicare will require fixing Medicare Advantage and are there primary care physician models that work?

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The Virtual Shift

The Virtual Shift: Thomas S. Campanella, Are their Primary Care Models that Work?

This episode is with Rob Walsh, the long standing Chief Executive of Northeast Lincolnshire Council. Rob has been Chief Exec of Northeast Lincolnshire for 10 years now which, in an era of quite high turnover for top local government jobs, is quite some achievement! 

Rob tells the story of how Northeast Lincolnshire is an area which has seen decline in the fishing industry - but is now embracing a new era of possibility around the decarbonisation and renewable energy market. Northeast Lincolnshire is a fantastic case study for Place Leadership: It was the first time to receive a Town Deal back in 2018; It has a long-standing section 75 agreement, which is essentially a way of pooling funding and resources between councils and the health system; and they are also part of proposal for a Greater Lincolnshire Mayoral Combined Authority. 

On top of that, within Northeast Lincolnshire itself, there's quite a lot of co-terminosity between some of the key anchor institutions, the council, and some of the key health providers, who are largely social enterprises. 

Rob is a very humble and quietly inspiring leader. And in my opinion, there is something quite special happening in Northeast Lincolnshire. I think they are quietly becoming a forerunner for what other areas in the country could aspire to.

Stronger Economies And Stronger Communities With Rob Walsh - Radical Reformers Podcast

Host Ramesh Kumar interviewed Fred Goldstein, co-founder and lead host of PopHealth Week, a weekly radio show that engages thought leaders, disruptive companies, and health systems in the field of Population Health Management. This is the first of a two-part podcast that was recorded in front of a live audience at HCAA's Executive Forum and examined GLP-1, weight loss, gene therapies, reinsurance, and outcomes based contracts. The discussion also focused on population health and the use of data, access to primary care, maternity and musculoskeletal care, and more.

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Voices of Self Funding

Voices of Self Funding: Fred Goldstein-President and Founder Accountable Health-CoHost PopHealthWeek

How VillageMD Connects Consumer Insights With Marketing

Ellen Donahue-Dalton, Chief Marketing Officer at VillageMD, speaks with Jared and guest co-host James Gardner about the connection between understanding consumers and marketing healthcare services to them. Along the way, she shares how she believes that younger consumers’ preferences for quick, convenient care will help push primary care to new heights of innovation. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Target Circle 360. Is their new loyalty program bringing them one step closer to offering healthcare benefits that rival Amazon and Walmart, and is it showing us more about the value of customer loyalty?

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Healthcare Rap

Healthcare Rap: How VillageMD Connects Consumer Insights With Marketing

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Here’s how AI can solve the physician burnout crisis

This episode is with Sarah Thomas, the Chief Executive of the Fostering Network, the UK’s leading fostering charity and membership organisation. The network provides training, support and advice to everyone involved in the fostering journey. 

This episode is part of Mutual Ventures' 2024 #PrioritisingPublicServices campaign.

Sarah has an incredible and very relevant backstory, which involved going from homeless at 16 to being a Chief Executive at 40, which is incredible. Her passion for supporting vulnerable children and parents comes across strongly, along with some completely understandable frustration at how parts of the system work. 

You won't find many people with as much knowledge about the UK fostering and children's social care system so we really get into how system is performing, what's going well and what some of the challenges are. 

Sarah and I also unpack why the system isn't improving outcomes for children and young people, and what she thinks needs to happen to make a difference. We then move on to talk about one of the big questions troubling leaders across all public services i.e. how do you move towards prevention and away from crisis response? Especially at a time when council services don't have a lot of money. They certainly don't have much in the way of reserves. Within this context, how do you make that flip towards prevention? 

We also discuss how to tackle the stigma of seeking support as a parent, and also have a detailed discussion on children's residential care and why that market isn't working. And it certainly isn't!

Homeless To CEO With The Fostering Network's Sarah Thomas

This episode is with Dr. Linda Harris, the Chief Executive and Chief Medical Officer of Spectrum Community Health a Wakefield based social enterprise, which delivers services covering a wide range of areas including prison health, sexual health and substance misuse. 

Linda describes Spectrum’s services and their incredible growth journey from an organisation of just 100 people to more than 800. We talk about the challenges and opportunities of managing a large organisation of primary care professionals, many of whom are GPs, who we know can be quite independently minded! We also talk about what Linda calls jail craft, which is all of the various precautions and processes you have to follow when you're delivering health care in a secure environment. 

Delivering these types of services on a day to day basis, Linda understandably has a tremendous interest in the wider social determinants of health and we get into a discussion about health neglect, and social issues and how a person's situation can deteriorate over time. We also talk about some of the measures that can be put in place to try and prevent this very damaging and cumulative harm being done.

Fighting Health Neglect With Dr. Linda Harris

John Minshull, Professional Lead for Medicines Advice presents a summary of the resources published by SPS between 3rd and 10th May 2024

To easily find a list of newly published pages got to sps.nhs.uk, select ‘search’, click in the search bar, and press enter.

Quick links to highlighted resources:

Planning for PGDs explainer videos.
Short videos to help when planning for the development of new, or review of existing Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/planning-for-pgds-explainer-videos/

Assessing liver function and interpreting liver blood tests.
We explain how to assess liver function including the purpose of liver blood tests, how to interpret them and what to do if they are abnormal.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/assessing-liver-function-and-interpreting-liver-blood-tests/

Questions to ask when giving medicines advice in liver impairment.
Information should be gathered about the history of liver impairment or the type of liver disease to enable a risk assessment and decisions about treatment.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/questions-to-ask-when-giving-medicines-advice-in-liver-impairment/

Information resources for managing medicines in liver impairment.
SPS and other information resources to help healthcare professionals provide advice on medicines in liver impairment.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/information-resources-for-managing-medicines-in-liver-impairment/

Prescribing thiamine in patients at risk of refeeding syndrome.
Intravenous thiamine for prevention of refeeding syndrome should be reserved for those with intestinal failure where the oral or enteral route is unavailable.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-thiamine-in-patients-at-risk-of-refeeding-syndrome/

Influenza vaccine written instruction templates for adoption.
Update: Note added re 24/25 template publication. The new templates are expected to be published in late spring or early summer this year. We are unable to provide an exact publication date but will release them as soon as possible, at the same time the UKHSA publish the national PGD for IM influenza vaccine.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/influenza-vaccine-written-instruction-templates-for-adoption/ 

Medication Safety Across The System – Opioid Safety webinar survey
If you attended this webinar, listened to the event recording in the past year, or watched one of the associated videos, we would love to hear your feedback vis this survey.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VpftQ_9Bv0yVm0BqQIO3iy69MtABWsFCjFDc3yJffiRUMllLWUtYTU00VFhOTU9EVDdaSE42V0lKNy4u 

Next events – forthcoming webinars and conferences
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/events/next-events/ 

Podcast description:
NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service serves healthcare professionals across the NHS who are involved in all aspects of buying, making and using medicines. Our motto is 'do once and share'.

14 May: PGD explainer videos, upcoming events, & feedback requests

John Minshull, Professional Lead for Medicines Advice presents a summary of the resources published by SPS between 10th and 17th May 2024

To easily find a list of newly published pages got to sps.nhs.uk, select ‘search’, click in the search bar, and press enter.

Quick links to highlighted resources:

Calculating and using the Child-Pugh score
The Child-Pugh score is used to estimate the severity of liver disease in patients with cirrhosis, and by drug manufacturers to suggest dose adjustments.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/calculating-and-using-the-child-pugh-score/

New Product Evaluations
A list of new product evaluations that are freely available to NHS staff via the internet.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/new-product-evaluations/ 

Prescribing thiamine in patients at risk of refeeding syndrome.
Update: Frequency of dosing updated for clarity.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-thiamine-in-patients-at-risk-of-refeeding-syndrome/

Supply and administration of medicines by staff group (H-O)
Update: Community practitioner nurse prescriber added.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/supply-and-administration-of-medicines-by-staff-group-h-to-o/ 

Progestogen-Only Intra-Uterine Device for contraception
Update: Added FSRH recommendation of 9th May supporting extended use of any 52mg LNG-IUD for up to eight years for contraception.
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/progestogen-only-intra-uterine-device-lng-iud-for-contraception/ 

Medication Safety Across The System – Opioid Safety webinar survey
If you attended this webinar, listened to the event recording in the past year, or watched one of the associated videos, we would love to hear your feedback vis this survey.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VpftQ_9Bv0yVm0BqQIO3iy69MtABWsFCjFDc3yJffiRUMllLWUtYTU00VFhOTU9EVDdaSE42V0lKNy4u 

Next events – forthcoming webinars and conferences
https://www.sps.nhs.uk/home/events/next-events/ 

Podcast description:
NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service serves healthcare professionals across the NHS who are involved in all aspects of buying, making and using medicines. Our motto is 'do once and share'.

21 May: Child-Pugh Scores, New Product Evaluations, & the next MSATS webinar

Saving women’s lives by eliminating health disparities in IL.

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New tracks tagged #PrimaryCare