Illuminating Primary Care

Kirsty welcomes in the new year with her podcast for January. A new year is often the time for plans and goals and perhaps reflecting on the last year and where you’re going from here.

What have you achieved over 2024? It’s a great time to acknowledge your achievements and don’t let them go unnoticed. Allow yourself to feel good going into 2025.

Where are you as a practice right now, and where would you love to be at the end of thi...

Matthew and David take you through the hot topic of ARRS funding for newly qualified GPs.

They explain the process in this special episode of Illuminating Primary Care.

A lot of PCNS are trying to work out what they are going to do and how to utilise their ARRS funding. There is a lot of uncertainty and the clock is ticking on this funding, so we are here to give you a summary of our experience so far and what we have learned a...

In this episode of the Illuminating Primary Care Podcast, Rohan Fletcher speaks to Yuen Toh, an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, podcaster and Partner at Boultham Park Medical Practice and discuss changes to the traditional partnership model. They look at how things have now changed, from seeing an introduction of other clinical roles as Partners in GP Practices, to looking at practices, PCNs and the wider system as well as making ...

In this episode we delve deeper into the careers of both Shilpa and Yuen and how they paved their way to embrace leadership, carving pathways through the dense undergrowth of traditional practice in Primary Care. With the landscape of General Practice shifting beneath our feet, we highlight how both Shilpa and Yuen found themselves at the vanguard, championing the integration of clinical pharmacy into a setting that has been histor...

Part Three - The Advent of GP Consultancy

A three-part episode with an entrepreneurial young GP Partner, Dr Mateen Ellahi. First, we discuss how he balances his NHS and private work and what a portfolio career gives him in terms of balance and job satisfaction. We then move on to his practice and how they’ve become one of the highest rated GP Practices in the country on Google. Part three covers Dr Ellahi’s venturing into GP Consul...

Part Two - Elm Tree Medical Centre – A Success Story

A three-part episode with an entrepreneurial young GP Partner, Dr Mateen Ellahi. First, we discuss how he balances his NHS and private work and what a portfolio career gives him in terms of balance and job satisfaction. We then move on to his practice and how they’ve become one of the highest rated GP Practices in the country on Google. Part three covers Dr Ellahi’s venturing int...

Part one - The Rise of Portfolio Careers

A three-part episode with an entrepreneurial young GP Partner, Dr Mateen Ellahi. First, we discuss how he balances his NHS and private work and what a portfolio career gives him in terms of balance and job satisfaction. We then move on to his practice and how they’ve become one of the highest rated GP Practices in the country on Google. Part three covers Dr Ellahi’s venturing into GP Consult...

GP Partner, Dr Rebecca Ennis from Western Avenue Medical Centre in Chester, delves into her journey to Partnership, specifically not long after qualifying, and how her practice does things differently.

In this episode, we discuss:

🩺Choosing GP as a speciality

📚Returning to University to specialise

🏠Choosing a practice

💭Lessons learnt as a partner

📈The future of GP

Timings:

00:05 - Introduction.

00:48 - Overview of Dr Rebec...