The Business of Healthcare Podcast with Tara Humphrey

#148 – What is the Power & Importance of Lifestyle Medicine with Dr Angela Goyal  Dr Angela Goyal is a GP Director and the Founder of Inspired Medics and a clinical lead in Dermatology at OneMedical Group. Advisory board member for the UK health coaches association and Regional Director for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.  We discuss lifestyle medicine of which I am a big believer in, Angela’s role at OneMedical Group, running Inspired Medics, how modern medicine is evolving and complementing the medical team.  This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Who is Dr Angela Goyal  Running Inspired Medics  The Power and Importance of Lifestyle Medicine    Mentions in Podcast  Episode 27 – Dr Will Dawson  Episode 141 – Dr Helen Lawal  Inspired Medics Careers Conference Blog   Connect with Dr Angela Goyal  On Twitter   Inspired Medics Website  On Linkedin  On Instagram    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

BH147 – Stop trying to do Everything Yourself  Welcome back to The Business of Healthcare Podcast with me Tara Humphrey, today I and going to be discussing how and why we need to stop trying to do everything ourselves.  This episode will be particularly helpful to you if you are a Clinical Director working in a PCN. This episode will give you some tangible ways to use administrative support.  I am sharing ways I use the support including financial support, creating project action logs and personal tasks. I also share how I work with my PA and how I treat it as a two-way relationship. I also touch on how important it is to define the role and job description before you hire. Having the right mindset is also crucial as your additions are an investment rather than an expense.  “Value your administrative support. You could not do your job without them.” Tara Humphrey  This week on The Business of Healthcare:  How to make the best use of your admin support.  Tasks I get support with.  Having the right mindset when recruiting.  Making the right first impressions with an induction.  The importance of a two-way relationship.  Why you need to define the role and job description.  Episodes Mentioned: #56 - The Importance of auditing your time #58 - How to have a good day #60 - The value of a loose agenda #62 - It's OK to say No #64 - Turning Hope into Solid Plans Connect with Tara:  THC Primary Care  Tara Humphrey on Linkedin  Tara Humphrey on Twitter  Tara Humphrey on Instagram    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

#146 - Supporting Isolated Members of the Community - The Bee Tree Community  I have had the pleasure of speaking to both Debbie & Clare from The Bee Tree Community, they have created an online community centre supporting those living in social isolation and I want to share this with you,  “We do not realise how many people do not leave their own homes, lockdown highlighted what needed to happen, but this is not just a lockdown project, our communities are full of people that are hidden”  In this week’s episode we discuss the following  Who is behind The Bee Tree Community?  What services are available? What is an online community centre?  The difference it can make. The challenges that have been overcome.  Social Prescribing.   Connect with The Bee Tree Community  Website  Contact via email  Instagram  Linkedin  Twitter  Facebook    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care.   

#145 Leadership Lessons we can all Apply with Tony Warne  In today’s episode we revisit a previous podcast with my wonderful guest Tony Warne.  Tony’s philosophy – The three A’s  Holding the executive directors to account  If you are a leader, Tony’s principles will help you, so take a listen to this short episode and if you enjoy, click below to listen to episode #112 in full.    Connect with Tony Warne  On Twitter   Episodes mentioned in the Podcast  Tony Warne episode #112    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

#144 – Face to face will never go away - Krista Burslam   Krista Burslam is the Clinical Director for Urgent & Emergency Care at eConsult which enables NHS based GP practices to offer online consultations to their patients. This allows patients to submit their symptoms or requests to their own GP electronically and offers around the clock NHS self-help information, signposting to services, and a symptom checker.  Krista joins me on the podcast today to talk about her role at eConsult, her background as a Nurse, their ideal clients and the vision of eConsult. I really enjoyed our conversation, Krista is easy to talk to, easy to listen to and has so much to offer our listeners.    This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Who is Krista Burslam and her background in healthcare  EConsult and how it works  The vision of eConsult  What is eTriage?  What gaps did the surge in business highlight?    Connect with Krista Burslam  eConsult Website  On Twitter  On LinkedIn   Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care.   

#143 – When Partnerships do not go as Planned – Nicholas Kelly  This episode is a slightly different one today, I have gone back into my extensive back catalogue of episodes and pulled some key snippets to share with you and to help you learn from somebody who has potentially been in a similar situation to you.   Strategic Partnerships  Rushing into partnerships  Don’t second guess yourself  If it doesn’t work out – it's OK!    I am referring back to my previous episode with Nicholas Kelly number 75 https://bit.ly/NicholasKellyEpisode75  please click on the link to listen to the episode in full.              Connect with Nicholas Kelly on:  Axela Website   Nicholas on LinkedIn  Nicholas on Twitter  Nicholas on Facebook  Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

142 Learning from and honouring our struggle - Grace Marshall   Grace joins me on the podcast today to talk about Struggle, being a Productivity Ninja, and having the tools and the chance to reflect.  “ I didn’t want to write a huge book on Struggle and I didn’t want the book on Struggle to be a Struggle to pick up””. Grace Marshall - Author  This week on The Business of Healthcare:  The cost of making mistakes and the impact  Practical things we can do to better respond to other people’s mistakes  Feeling out of our depth  Resilience  Importance of giving time to recover  Periods of Struggle  Connect with Grace Marshall   Website     On LinkedIn  On Twitter   On Instagram    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

#141: In Conversation with my Health Coach Dr Helen Lawal  I had a fabulous time talking with my guest today Dr Helen Lawal who is also my Health Coach. We discuss a variety of topics and shed some light and helpful advice towards the benefits of investing in yourself.  This is a great episode to listen to if you are thinking about investing in a Coach, have already used a Coach or want to see a behind the scenes of what a coaching session can be like.  This week on The Business of Healthcare:  If you don’t get the immediate answers that you are looking for  Delivering a healthy “no” practice  What’s gone well approach  The Power of Lifestyle Medicine  Investing in yourself  Connect with Dr Helen Lawal  Dr Helen Lawal Website  On Twitter  On Instagram     Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

#140: Supporting Social Care to become best in class – Liam Palmer  Liam Palmer is a registered Care Home Manager, Author, Podcast Host and Tech Advocate and he is such a nice guy! Listen out to the funny story!  We cover a lot in this episode which is detailed below – we laugh, we discuss serious topics and we reflect.   This week on The Business of Healthcare:  Who is Liam Palmer  Five Layers of Technology  An evolving sector  Making better decisions when the consequence is so serious  Decisions based on Transmission  Care homes as a business  How to cope when everything beams Urgent  Early stages of Covid and infection control  Connect with Liam Palmer  On LinkedIn   Episodes mentioned in the Podcast  Dr Katrina Sheikh episode #102    Work with me  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 12 Primary Care Networks.  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 200 blogs.   For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.  Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time   Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care. 

139. - How to create effective meetings  In this episode I wanted to talk you through and share with you some back to basics tips on how to create effective meetings. A lot of time and effort goes into this and I wanted to share this with you guys.  This podcast is honestly applicable to any management role.   It doesn't really matter where you are, it's the skills and how you apply them to your area of work.   Topics to listen out for   Taking care of your basic needs first  Revisit the purpose of the meeting  Diversity of roles in the meeting  What needs to be shared?  Meeting etiquette     Links to items discussed in the Podcast.  Back in episode 127, I talked you through how to carry out a communications audit,  - click here to listen to this episode.     For more weekly insights and advice sign up to my newsletter.   Improving the Business of Healthcare – One Episode at a Time    Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of the Business of Healthcare Podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave your honest review, and share your favourite episodes on social media. Find us on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn or visit our website – THC Primary Care.