"Run your own race." Dr Dan Bunstone joins Tara this week, discussing his career journey and his current role at Etcetera Health. Dan explains the concept of lifestyle medicine and the importance of empowering individuals to manage their health, where they have onboarded and treated hard-to-reach patients, resulting in controlled blood pressure and potential savings of heart attacks and strokes. Tara finishes the episode by asking Dan to provide advice for primary care networks, healthcare professionals, network managers, and tech companies.. Dan & Tara's key takeaways:
- Lifestyle medicine, focusing on exercise, good diets, and sleep patterns, can have a powerful impact on health and is often more effective than medication.
- Running your own race and not comparing yourself to others is key.
- Finding time for exercise is crucial, even for busy healthcare professionals.
- Collaboration and proving cost savings are essential for primary care networks.
- Engaging with primary care as a tech company requires choosing the right partners and demonstrating clear benefits.
- Building a personal brand involves staying on message and being genuine.
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I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 120 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations.
I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices.
I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs.
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