Is the 10-year plan on track, GP premises challenges, job shortage for new GPs
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Hello and welcome to Talking General Practice, the podcast from GP Online. I'm Emma Bauer, the editor of GP Online. On the podcast today, I'm joined by our Deputy Editor Nick Bostock and our senior reporter Kimberly Hackett. Hi everyone, to talk about the key news stories affecting general practice. Coming up, we're looking at the government's 10-year health plan one year on and asking how much progress has been made, whether it's on track and what needs to happen next. As part of that we'll be talking about PCN contract variations after every practice in Kent signed up to the first deal of this kind. We'll be looking at GP Premises after NHS England Chair Dr. Penny Dash angered GPs after saying that GP practices have twice as much floor space as they need.
And we're also discussing some of the challenges of getting new premises developments off the ground. And we'll be talking about whether or not the GP jobs crisis is beginning to ease as thousands of GP registrars prepare to qualify in the coming weeks. GP Online has joined forces with five essential healthcare resources to create the MIMS Healthcare Network. Since 1959, our Haymarket healthcare titles have supported primary and secondary care audience across the UK through individual publications and specialist events. We're now entering an exciting new era with the launch of MIMS healthcare network. Linking together our six leading media brands to serve the entire healthcare community as one. The MIMS Healthcare Network covers GP Online, GP Business, MIMS, MIMS Learning, MIMS Learning Live and MIMS Pharma.
By bringing together these resources, we aim to provide a seamless experience for all healthcare professionals and the organisations that support and supply the UK health sector. The MIMS Healthcare Network, covering every aspect of primary care. For more information about our subscriptions, visit gponline.com forward slash subscribe. Mm-hmm. So Nick, we're just passed a year into the government's ten year plan and you decided to have a look at how things were going. And what the plans have meant for general practice so far. Just on a very broad level, what did you find? What did people tell you about how they think things are going?
Some GPs would tell you there's been some progress, others would say there hasn't been much at all. But there's a fair bit to unpick, basically, because a lot has happened over the years since the 10-year health plan came out last July. There are a couple of things the plan promised that we would have expected to see by now. An updated NHS workforce plan was meant to come out by the end of last year, but still hasn't surfaced and it could be a big deal for general practice. The existing plan would have grown hospital doctors 12 times faster than GPs. So will a new version reset that and deliver more GPs? Will it overclaim about the potential impact of AI on GP workloads? So some of these questions ought to be answered by that plan.
Neighborhood contracts promised in the 10-year health. Health plan for single neighborhood providers, roughly the size of a PCN, multi-neighborhood providers that are larger, covering populations of uh around quarter of a million people. Those were widely expected by the end of last year. And then for the start of the current financial year, but those contracts also haven't yet appeared, even in draft form for consultation. The plan also spoke about integrated health organizations or IHOs. That's the idea of top-performing hospital trusts taking on control of budgets, including for general practice, across entire regional health systems. Contracts for those organizations also haven't yet materialized, but several hospitals across England have taken the first step towards being able to become IHO.
By achieving what's called advanced foundation trust data. So one concern GP's raised here is that the hospital-led vision of the future for the NHS may be developing a little bit faster, while potentially those GP led neighborhood contracts have stalled. GP spoke also about the impact of massive NHS reforms and how those had slowed down change over the past year.
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