This week Emma speaks to Professor Andy Brooks and Dr Liam Loftus from the National Association of Primary Care, about the drive towards neighbourhood health and what it means for general practice. Andy is the NAPC’s clinical chair and Liam is head of policy at the organisation.

Andy and Liam share insights from NAPC’s work supporting sites in the National Neighbourhood Health Implementation Programme, and explain why local relationships, trust, and leadership matter far more than new neighbourhood contracts.

They also discuss concerns around proposed multi-neighbourhood providers, why general practice must form the foundation of neighbourhood working, and how to protect continuity of care and provide practical advice on what practices can do right now to get started.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and was produced by Czarina Deen.

You can watch a video with more practical advice from this interview on how practices and PCNs can make the most of neighbourhoods on our GP Business website here - you will need to register for the site to watch the video, or use your GPonline login if you have one.

Useful links

NAPC website

Viewpoint: Neighbourhood contracts bring risk - but also opportunity for GPs

Neighbourhood contracts risk imposing form over function, warns NAPC

Hospital deficits block funding shift to neighbourhoods, NHS official admits

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This week Emma and Nick look at a whole host of GP contract issues, including changes to the GP reimbursement scheme, an update on list cleaning, NHS England threatening possible contractual action over same-day access and what GPs want from next year’s contract.

They also discuss how specialist waiting lists and problems elsewhere in the system are piling pressure on general practice, following a recent survey of the public by the RCGP.

And they talk about why the so-called ‘left shift’ of resources from hospitals to secondary care is so difficult and how the NHS is hoping neighbourhoods will enable the change this time around.

Our good news story this week is about a practice that closed for four years due to short-staffing which is set to reopen.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and deputy editor Nick Bostock. It was produced by Czarina Deen.

Useful resources

Full details of practice-level GP reimbursement scheme

Multimillion-pound list cleaning cuts 'will be reinvested in core general practice'

What can GPs expect from the 2027/28 contract?

GPs slam impact on capacity and safety after a year of unlimited online demand

How NHS delays are piling extra work on GPs

Hospital deficits block funding shift to neighbourhoods, NHS official admits

Practice to reopen and hire more GPs after £336,000 boost

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This week Emma speaks to Dr Adrian Hayter, a GP partner in Windsor and Chief Medical Officer at NICE.

Adrian discusses why he made the move to NICE and what having a practicing GP in senior leadership at the organisation means for primary care as the NHS shifts focus towards community-based care and neighbourhood health teams.

He explains how NICE is working to accelerate guidance approvals, how guidelines can be made more accessible for frontline clinicians managing patients with complex multi-morbidities, and the role of the upcoming Single National Formulary - and what it will mean for GPs, pharmacists and primary care teams.

Adrian also explains how NICE is adapting its evaluation frameworks for emerging health technologies, including AI tools and medical-grade wearables.

This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower. It was produced by Czarina Deen.

Useful links

MHRA and NICE aligned pathway: how it's working in practice - article on NICE’s website

Information about NICE’s lifecycle approach to guidance development

The Pharmacists’ Summit - from MIMS Healthcare Network

Two evenings of online learning on 30 November and 1 December for pharmacists working in primary care. For more information and to register for your free place visit:

https://www.mimshealthcarenetwork.co.uk/mims-learning-live-digital-the-pharmacists-summit

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