Healthcare leaders face a flood of promises from vendors touting AI healthcare solutions to revolutionise care delivery. The real challenge isn’t whether technology can help – it’s how to distinguish genuine opportunities from costly distractions.| THC Primary Care
At THC Primary Care, we create resources for Primary Care Network leaders to make running their networks a little bit easier. In this blog, we provide our take on what PCN leaders need to focus on in Q3 2025/26.| THC Primary Care
Discover proven strategies for managing primary care network funding conflicts. Learn how to navigate different money mindsets and build transparent financial processes.| THC Primary Care
Learn essential healthcare leadership skills with The Business of Healthcare Leadership course. Master patients, people, money, and governance fundamentals for Primary Care Networks, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, and multi-organisational healthcare settings. 7-session program starting September 2025.| THC Primary Care
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Discover how professional facilitation helps Primary Care Networks (PCNs) overcome challenges, boost collaboration, and drive improvement.| THC Primary Care
Transform your primary care leadership. THC Primary Care supports 300+ PCNs with proven management training, consultancy, and resources. Learn more now.| THC Primary Care
Read this comprehensive guide to GP Contract Access Changes taking effect October 2025. Understand new continuous access requirements for phone lines, online booking, and premises. Balanced coverage of government modernisation goals vs GP safety concerns, implementation timeline from February agreement to October rollout, and potential patient impacts.| THC Primary Care
You know that nagging feeling when someone isn't quite right for the role? When you're constantly having to step in and do work that should have been delegated? When colleagues start coming directly to you instead of going through proper channels?| THC Primary Care
The Model Region Blueprint (published 11 September 2025) accompanies the Model ICB Blueprint published earlier in the year, presenting how oversight responsibilities will be split between regional teams and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). If you're running a primary care network or practice, here's what you need to know.| THC Primary Care
Don't let hidden assumptions derail your neighbourhood health project. Use this exercise at your next team meeting to surface risks early. Based on analysis of major NHS failures like NPfIT and terminated integration contracts, this practical tool helps teams identify dangerous blind spots across 8 key areas: relationships, funding, governance, community needs, and more| THC Primary Care
I had a conversation last week with a PCN that's completely fractured. Two camps with fundamentally different visions of what their network should be. Board meetings where five people stay silent and two oppose everything. A clinical director ready to step down after five years because the stress isn't worth it any more.| THC Primary Care
Tara Humphrey breaks down why over £93 million in Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme funding went unspent by Primary Care Networks in 2024/25, and what's changing ahead.| THC Primary Care
This blog explores the critical leadership challenges facing Primary Care Network (PCN) managers and clinical directors who struggle with team dynamics, stakeholder management, and decision-making in complex healthcare environments. Drawing on insights from supporting over 300 primary care networks, the article identifies the core paradox of PCN leadership: the more leaders try to accommodate everyone's preferences and avoid conflict, the more frustrated and ineffective their teams become.| THC Primary Care
While pharmacists, social prescribers, and care coordinators have established frameworks, PCN Managers have navigated complex responsibilities without a clear roadmap. Until now.| THC Primary Care
We have compiled the latest primary care network documents and links into one central resource and linked them to some of our summaries to help you have them close to hand—the April 2025 update.| THC Primary Care
PCN update July–Aug 2025: key funding & DES revisions, ARRS uplifts, Enhanced Access, IIF CAN04 FIT incentive, and neighbourhood developments.| THC Primary Care
As strategic commissioning gathers pace and opportunities for primary care leaders to influence more collaborative working arrangements with ICBs expand, understanding the commissioning landscape has never been more critical.| THC Primary Care
PCN leaders face critical decisions: adapt to neighbourhood team structures or build on strengths? Practical guidance on NHS transformation ahead.| THC Primary Care
Transform your neighbourhood health contract meetings with professional facilitation tools. Six essential conversation areas covering meeting dynamics, workforce challenges, and provider collaboration. Practical question frameworks help PCNs navigate complex discussions and build stronger community partnerships.| THC Primary Care
Neighbourhood working is new territory for PCN leaders. The 10 Forces framework helps you understand the complexities around healthcare partnerships and make better strategic decisions when there's no established approach to follow.| THC Primary Care
Review the complete guide to physician assistant roles in UK primary care following the Leng Review. Learn supervision requirements, scope of practice & new 2025 rules.| THC Primary Care
Expert panel reveals why PCNs have 6 months to prepare for NHS Ten Year Plan transformation. Take our free Neighbourhood MOT assessment to check your collaboration readiness for April 2026's SNP and MNP contracts.| THC Primary Care
Distil the NHS 10 Year Plan's 168 pages into actionable neighbourhood health insights. Implementation timeline, financial case, and visual templates for busy healthcare leaders.| THC Primary Care
Primary care leaders must think beyond PCNs to scale organisations that can lead system transformation. Expert legal insights on Multi-Neighbourhood Provider opportunities ahead of NHS 10 Year Plan.| THC Primary Care
The Business of Healthcare with Tara Humphrey looks behind-the-scenes at the business side of healthcare by talking to NHS and private healthcare leaders. And, throughout this podcast, she also shares her own project management and leadership insights.| THC Primary Care
This blog focuses on NHS England's new Neighbourhood Health Guidelines 2025/26, which was released on 29 January 2025 and then discusses what this may mean for primary care networks.| THC Primary Care
