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Please check out the podcasts, YouTube videos and published articles which Tara Humphrey, our CEO has been featured in. 

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Tara speaks and writes about Primary Care Networks, leadership and management in healthcare, productivity, mindset, business and entrepreneurship and caring for a child with type 1 diabetes.  

If you would like to hire Tara to write an article, feature in an interview, or to sit on a panel, please contact admin@thcprimarycare.co.uk

Videos

Happy Healthcare Professionals 

Tara Humphrey, Founder and Managing Director of THC Primary Care, who has over 20 years of experience in business development and operations, covering both the public and private sectors.

Business Opportunities in Primary Care

Tara shares how she has transformed primary care into a business and what that journey was like, including her core achievements working with primary care networks. We also pose the question: what do doctors need to know about non-clinical opportunities in primary care?

Embracing Equity in the Boardroom

Advanced Tech

A powerful showcase of the transformative impact of diversity and inclusivity during Women's Month featuring Katherine Church, Nicola Ellis-Webb, Shajeda Ahmed, and Tara Humphrey.

Expert advice for Pharmacists

We have shifted our perspective to see the Clinical Pharmacist role through the lens of someone who is involved in the management and support of PCNs. We spoke to Tara Humphrey, who specializes in providing PCN support and consulting advice to healthcare leaders and is the host of the Business of Healthcare podcast.

Being a PCN Clinical Director

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Join Gandhi and special guest Tara Humphrey from the Business of Healthcare podcast as we talk about life as a clinical director of a PCN and what it means for your practice, your network, and you.

Advanced Tech

Top five tips for PCNs struggling to recruit 

We are joined by Tara Humphrey, a Primary Care Network Management Specialist with 20 years of experience in business development and operations, having supported over 30 Primary Care Networks, providing them with training and management support.

LinkedIn Posting Has a Higher ROI Than You Think | ft. Tara Humphrey (Dojo #24)

Welcome to the Dojo, the podcast where we turn marketing news into marketing tasks. This week we're joined by Tara Humphrey, Primary Care Leader and Host of the Business of Healthcare Podcast and we talk about: - Dark green rebrands everywhere?! - Pre-testing ads is not divisive, it’s a no-brainer - Growing LinkedIn to build your healthcare consultancy

Are primary care networks here to stay and how can practices make the most of them?

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This week Emma talks to Tara Humphrey, founder and CEO of THC Primary Care, which provides management support and training to primary care networks across England. Tara is also the host of the Business of Healthcare podcast. Tara explains what makes a successful network, some of the challenges networks have to overcome and the positive side of the additional roles reimbursement scheme. She also talks about how the 2024/25 GP contract could affect PCNs, why financially secure GP practices are crucial to the success of networks and whether networks are here to stay. This episode was presented by GPonline editor Emma Bower and produced by Czarina Deen.

Advanced Tech

Talking General Practice speaks to Tara Humphrey, who works with PCNs across England, about what makes a successful network, the impact the 2024/25 GP contract could have, and whether PCNs are here to stay.

Tara explains what makes a successful network, some of the challenges networks have to overcome and the positive side of the additional roles reimbursement scheme. She also talks about how the 2024/25 GP contract could affect PCNs, why financially secure GP practices are crucial to the success of networks and whether networks are here to stay.

Tara Humphrey brings a unique perspective to our company. With her years of experience in business and healthcare, she has been through many transitions and understands the importance of effective communication. Our programs are tailored to help individuals at all levels improve their communication skills and become better leaders in their organizations, no matter the field. Our two key programs, Speechcraft Essentials and Speechcraft Advanced, focus on specific areas of communication, such as public speaking, persuasive writing, and interpersonal skills.

''Having spoken to our allies over at THC Primary Care, it’s clear that the report can be interpreted in many different ways, depending on who you are, where you sit, what your remit is and how prepared you may (or may not) be feeling ahead of the upcoming transition. In this week’s episode, Ben and THC Primary Care founder and MD and PCN Management expert Tara Humphrey discuss their key takeaways from the stocktake and what they both feel general practice should be doing right now to ready themselves for integrated primary care and ICSs beyond''.

Podcasts

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Our 
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Tara joins Ben to discuss the current priorities for PCNs. Tara shares her insights into the most significant challenges PCNs are currently facing, touching upon various issues and tensions within these networks. The discussion also revolves around the opportunity PCNs have to collaborate, learn from each other, and provide support for one another, all while recognising that all practices share a common goal and are part of the same team. 

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Tara Humphrey is the CEO of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy providing project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. She's also the host of the Business of Healthcare podcast. Tara was my special guest for session 1 of my 7-part webinar series 'Be Yourself, Back Yourself & Make it Happen'. This episode is a recording of the session. Tara shares practical insights and advice on developing 'A Leader's Mindset'. We speak about:

Dealing with fear and failureBecoming more solutions-focusedInvesting in yourself and using expert advice

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On today’s special Thanksgiving episode, we talk with Tara Humphrey, CEO of THC Primary Care, a healthcare consulting firm in London.

Tara shares with us the life-changing power of positivity, how she sets goals, and how her daily practice of affirmations changed her mindset, her business, and her life as a whole. Because when we focus on how we want to feel, rather than where we are, anything is possible.

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Our 
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Tara joins Ben to discuss the current priorities for PCNs. Tara shares her insights into the most significant challenges PCNs are currently facing, touching upon various issues and tensions within these networks. The discussion also revolves around the opportunity PCNs have to collaborate, learn from each other, and provide support for one another, all while recognising that all practices share a common goal and are part of the same team. 

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I reached out to Tara to share her insight on elements of team working, project management and goal setting that are relatable to any pharmacist or pharmacy career pathway. I have also shared Tara's podcast link below and episodes from her podcast that you might find useful to listen to and relate to the conversations we have had in this 3-part series.

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It can be scary to specialize so deeply that you find yourself serving a micro niche. You can worry that it will be harder to be profitable and that it will be more difficult to build relationships and a reputation within a smaller defined group of clients and customers.

You can also tell yourself a story that finding team members who can serve these very specific clients will be a challenge as compared to hiring generalists. 

Today you’ll meet Leadership Lab Member Tara Humphrey, an incredible leader who has built a very profitable micro niche company that serves a specific sector of the healthcare industry.   

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Eco-Friendly Design

What they can do to support the work of the Clinical Director and the wider management team in facing down some of the challenges, how they can remove pressure from existing staff, what makes a perfect PCN Manager, how to find them – and if you’re lucky enough to already have a manager in post, where resources and information can be found to support them in continuing to thrive''

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Burgers, Busyness and Business with Tara Humphrey

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In this episode we chat about the main mistakes GPs and other professionals make when trying to run a business, either trying to do everything themselves or not paying enough attention to the business side of things. Even if we don’t run a practice, many of us are self-employed and are running ourselves as a business.

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Advanced Tech

Tara shares her insights into the most significant challenges PCNs are currently facing, touching upon various issues and tensions within these networks. Tara emphasises the importance of interactions within PCNs and how this directly impacts the trust levels among participating practices.

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Eco-Friendly Design

Should GPs be added to the Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme? Join Ben & Tara Humphrey from THC Primary Care, as they dissect the details of the new funding scheme specifically allocated for GPs and its potential impact on PCNs. Tara shares her insights on learning from past experiences, avoiding resource dilution, and the practicalities of financial feasibility. Together, they look at the recent funds allocation by NHS England for hiring more GPs, debating the most effective distribution of this funding, and providing practical advice on making the most of this opportunity despite its potential limitations. Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion on the evolving landscape of GP roles in PCNs.

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I no longer take my daughter to her diabetes appointments' with Tara Humphrey

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Business owner, fitness enthusiast and adventurer Tara Humphrey is a woman of action. As the CEO of a primary care management consultancy, wife and mum of three adolescent girls, life is already a juggling act, but the family have also been forced to adapt to not one but two demanding chronic illnesses in the household. And despite the inevitable challenges, adapt they have - with the help of a whole load of pragmatic organisation, communication, teamwork and a generous dose of fun too.

 

 

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Maximising the PCN Practice relationship

Primary Care Networks are now an important and established part of the primary care landscape but as Tara Humphrey points out in this episode, with multiple organisations coming together it takes a lot of time, thought, reflection and planning to try and build the relationships.

We can be certain that Primary Care Networks, in one form or another, are here to stay, so I wanted explore the complex relationships between primary care networks and practices. There is possibly no one better to have this conversation with than Tara

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Blogs, Articles and Interviews

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Tara Humphrey, a trailblazing British businesswoman

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The secrets to successful time management

The impact of community pharmacy closures on the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)

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“I’m not checking my phone constantly anymore”

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