Tara Humphrey
What to do when a member of your PCN team wants to leave ( in 2 weeks!)
Even though you suspect things aren’t right, you resist addressing the situation and hope your team member, who clearly wants to leave,...
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Tara Humphrey
- May 5, 2021
A Digital Tool for Social Prescribing
At any time, people are facing many different and varying degrees of social challenges in their lives. The 2020/21 lockdowns showed many...
Tara Humphrey
- Feb 24, 2021
Struggling with your new Primary Care Network employees?
Assess whether they GET IT, WANT IT and have the CAPACITY to do their job well. I’m sure you have all experienced a time when the people...
Tara Humphrey
- Feb 17, 2021
Key questions to gain more clarity in your PCN Manager role
When working with PCN Managers, I’ve found that there are common questions we need to address early on that help to create clarity in...
Tara Humphrey
- Feb 2, 2021
How to Embed a New Role When Working Virtually in your Primary Care Network
Many of you have been working virtually for months now, and while it may be beginning to feel ‘normal’, it hasn’t been without its...
Tara Humphrey
- Jan 27, 2021
Introducing New Roles to your PCN: The Practical Stuff
With the introduction of new roles to Primary Care Networks, there are many elements to consider and hopefully this list will support you...
Tara Humphrey
- Jan 20, 2021
What to ask in your PCN Manager Job Interview?
I have provided a getting started guide for newly appointed Primary Care Network (PCN) Managers, but what about those of you who are...
Tara Humphrey
- Dec 4, 2020
Getting Started - The Role of the Primary Care Network Manager (updated for 2022)
Whilst the role of the Primary Care Network Manager will vary from network to network, there is a repository of resources and key...
Tara Humphrey
- Nov 25, 2020
The Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme | Challenges and Some Potential Solutions
While the additional role reimbursement scheme provides a great opportunity to expand the primary care workforce, foster greater...
Tara Humphrey
- Nov 11, 2020
The Role of the Primary Care Network Manager
The Role A network manager, in essence, is there to build the business infrastructure of the Primary Care Network (PCN) working alongside...
Tara Humphrey
- Nov 6, 2020
How to introduce a new role into your Primary Care Network
Regardless of the circumstances, introducing a role into your primary care network can be both exciting and challenging. The aim of this...
Tara Humphrey
- Sep 25, 2020
What are you tolerating in your Primary Care Network?
As your primary care network continues to develop or limp along, asking yourself the question “what are we tolerating?" will either...
Tara Humphrey
- Jul 7, 2020
Support that is worth their weight in gold
For those of you leading a Primary Care Network, a GP Practice or leading a project or service, I firmly believe that it is essential to...
Tara Humphrey
- Jun 30, 2020
Network Fundamentals - Having the right people around the table
Having the right people involved from the beginning of a project, contract or service will give it the best chance of success. If the...
Tara Humphrey
- Jun 23, 2020
How to Overcome Objections in your Primary Care Network
This framework serves as a tool to help you rationalise any barriers you may encounter when developing your network and can help you...
Tara Humphrey
- Jun 9, 2020
Don’t Let Passive Agreement Hamper Your Progress
Convincing an audience that a strategy or a particular course of action is attractive without asking for their active agreement may seem...
Tara Humphrey
- Jun 2, 2020
3 Questions to answer before you hire your Primary Care Network Manager
This resource has been created to help support you hiring your first or next Network Manager. To get you started, you will need to answer...
Tara Humphrey
- May 5, 2020
A New Dawn, a New Day, a New Era for the Health Care Drive Thru
It is well documented that the pace of change in general practice has sky-rocketed due to remote working and practices embracing digital...
Tara Humphrey
- Apr 28, 2020
3 Not so easy but powerful steps to create trust in your Primary Care Network
I was recently speaking with a Primary Care Network (PCN) Clinical Director who shared that she was working on a new financial management...
Tara Humphrey
- Apr 21, 2020
How do you collaborate during a pandemic?
It goes without saying that, for us to work collaboratively, we have to feel as though we know, like and trust each other. But what do we...