Nick Bostock

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Talking General Practice · Is the 10-year plan on track, GP premises challenges, job shortage for new GPs · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

So other areas are looking at how to use this option to vary the DES, but it doesn't look as if we'll see massive uptake in the immediate future.

One of the lawyers, and they're both primary care specialists, said they expected over time that a few local variation templates effectively would emerge that ICBs could choose from.

So essentially, there won't be endless varieties of variation.

It may be more like a handful of templates that are tweaked a bit locally to suit the needs of different areas.

One of the lawyers said ICB's looking at changes.

To the network contractors to try to embed a more consistent approach across their patch.

So ICBs have often inherited variation in services that practices provide, either because of differences between CCGs in the past or more recently as separate ICB areas merge.

So variation in the types of local enhanced services and the and funding for them, to be fair, that goes to GP practices.

And my

My understanding is that the Kent variation has been used to embed a consolidated service model across the ICB.

And in parts of London, actually all local and arts services have been moved to PCN level already.

So that could be the kind of approach we see from single neighborhood contracts in future.

But these areas are all emerging models that could become permanent in some areas, could be copied elsewhere, could be replaced down the track when other contract options become available.

Upgrading the NHS app is a big part of the analog to digital shift in the 10-year plan as well.

You know, as you mentioned, West Streeting said it would become a doctor in your pocket.

And he said that upgrades that the government was planning would take the NHS from a global laggard to a global leader in terms of health technology.

The update we wrote about this week was that the government has decided to fast track the rollout of an AI.

Triage tool in general practice and perhaps in Sussex had trialed this technology and found that it brought a 29% reduction in people queuing on its phone lines.

And then it's in and said that's a big step towards ending the so-called 8 a.m.

rush, and that it had boosted patient satisfaction.

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