It’s been announced about the £240M investment to upgrade primary care telephony. We recently discussed the benefits and how it’s a piece in a puzzle in the ⁦NHS Confederation digital group with ⁦@George1Johnston. ⁦Ruth Rankine 💙⁩ ⁦amanda doyle⁩ nhsconfed.org/articles/pcns-…

Out with the dog. Incredible late spring evening! Great time to get headspace and clarity. Absolutely love it. Perfect combo of exercise and time. Simple. Effective.

Thanks @George1Johnston! Agree about the session. Proactive care and population health are where we need to be focussing for sure!! Incredible efficient use of funding, and just so much better for patients! We’re looking to spread across #warrington with Laura Mount

Membership to the #EarlyRisersClub this morning Tara Humphrey! Beautiful morning for it too. Heading to London to Chair a Digital Health Conference. Great to be able to share ideas and innovation with others doing brilliant stuff and to feed into the work at NHS Confederation

Listening to the team at Merck discussing around data. But really importantly how we utilise and create actionable data! Just what we’re always talking about @George1Johnston in our Digital Design group. Super interesting stuff and innovative work!

It’s that time of year again when NHS ConfedExpo comes to Manchester. Fantastic event with a huge number of theatres, presentations and inspiring ideas. I’ve the privilege of being on a round table with Dr Harpreet Sood and then chairing a fascinating session on proactive care. Pop by!

Listening to George Evans-Jones at the NHS Confederation UK primary care Forum. Great review of where PCN’s and ICS are up to and what does the future hold. Looking forward to a great day of collaboration and sharing ideas and challenges! Good luck chair arunagarcea!

Come and join to discuss the evolution of virtual care… Dan Bunstone stephanie somerville Nick Hulme

What a superb event at Marwan Naja again this year! So much going on. Felt like I was non stop, yet only got through half what I wanted to!! So much innovation and so much fantastic work across the #NHS. Great to catch up with Dr Farah Jameel too - you’re smashing it!

There’s real proactive health care going on in WIN PCN. We’ve got 800+ hypertensive patients managed remotely with clinics planned to October. Some great support additions in the pipeline from Jess McKenna. Screening project planned with Paul Corless and Stephen Bennett too

We’ve worked with Tara Humphrey and the THC for a long time in WIN PCN. Brilliant! So effective, so organised, so committed. Really effective team!! If you’re looking to really catalyse your PCN, I’d drop Tara a line!!

Really thought provoking round table session with Victoria Vaughan about enhanced care in care homes. There’s so much great work going on across the country. Scribbling notes like crazy!! Look forward to the article in PulsePCN PulseToday

Watching the boys at footy training. Beautiful evening for it up in Manchester. Multi tasking with the dog walk.

Great to have been part of the panel. There’s no question AI has a part to play in primary care. So many of our processes can be supported. Critical piece is picking when and where to use the application.

Just got back from Florida. While we were there I took Eddie Pinero advice and got up to see the Miami sunrise with a coffee… 40 minutes earlier than it was due. Absolutely worth it, and the build up made it all the better. Thanks Eddie.

Friday Night Lights. U12’s rugby match in #Winnington. Really good fixture supporting the lads from ⁦Lymm RFC⁩

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#WorldMentalHealthDay2023. Early morning walk with the dog while listening to Eddie Pinero. Give yourself time today. A bit of head space if you can. And phone a friend you’ve not spoken to in a while. It might help you and it might help them. 💪🏻

GP surgeries across the UK deliver 30Million appointments per month. Astonishingly that’s the equivalent of 2500 appointments a minute (or 42 per second!!) Just think about the scale of those numbers! Ruth Rankine 💙, Parody RCGP - Not a Doctor or PA, Dr Steve Taylor

The queue to cross Warburton bridge currently stretches a distance of around half a mile and totalling around 70 cars, engines idling. All of that excess pollution to collect a 12p toll. Ironically, inside the Manchester ‘low pollution’ zone! Andy Burnham Warrington Guardian