A conversation with a Sheffield GP who is also Clinical Director in Primary Care for Sheffield on the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. We talk about influence, culture, joy in work and Ben's vision for General Practice in the future.

In this mini-series of my podcast, I am chatting to inspirational PCN Clinical Directors about what inspires them, and how they have taken the apparently impossible job of Clinical Director of a network of GP practices allocated by geography rather than by shared cultures, ideals and purpose, and united them to make a positive difference to the network as well as to their population.

This episode is a conversation with my GP colleague from the Primary Care Transformation Team, Dr Rupa Joshi, whose practice is in Wokingham and who is the co-Clinical Director of Wokingham North Primary Care Network. The success of this PCN is a testament to the inspiring clinical leadership of Rupa and her colleague, and the story of her involvement is an inspiration.

Rupa is also workforce lead for Berkshire West Primary Care Networks and Learning and Development Clinical SRO at NHS confederation. S

In this mini-series of my podcast, I am chatting to inspirational PCN Clinical Directors about what inspires them, and how they have taken the apparently impossible job of Clinical Director of a network of GP practices allocated by geography rather than by shared cultures, ideals and purpose, and united them to make a positive difference to the network as well as to their population.

My first interview is with Dr Jenny Darkwah, GP in Shoreditch, North East London, and Clinical Director of Shoreditch Park and City Primary Care Network. Listen Here!