NAPC Spring Conference 2022 Thursday 12 May 2022
Our speakers / panelists
Conference facilitator
Dr Johnny Marshall OBE, President, NAPC
Johnny is a GP at Westongrove Primary Care Home and a highly experienced NHS leader. During his career, Johnny has built a reputation as a trusted leader and advisor, providing valued vision and insight on health and care policy on behalf of NHS membership organisations. Johnny has established effective partnerships at board level between NHS membership organisations and key partners including national NHS bodies, local government, and professional representative groups. Johnny remains passionate about adopting a population health perspective across health and care and developing sustainable support for individuals and communities, particularly through NAPC’s primary care home model. His previous roles include NAPC Chair and Director of Policy at NHS Confederation
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and agenda overview
Dr Caroline Taylor, Chair, NAPC and GP, Calderdale
Dr Caroline Taylor is the NAPC Chair and a GP. She is clinical vice chair of Calderdale CCG and clinical lead for mental health and children & young people. She works with SWYPFT MH trust, CHFT acute trust and West Yorkshire & Harrogate ICS on quality and improvement. She is developing an innovative mental health and wellbeing decision tree to assess and meet people’s holistic needs and reduce pressure on clinicians’ workloads. Caroline leads the unique CalderdaleCares4Us voluntary sector run initiative to support the wellbeing of public sector workers and volunteers during the pandemic. Caroline also works with other Calderdale system leaders on the innovative Calderdale Community Mental Health Transformation.
Dr Johnny Marshall OBE, President, NAPC
Johnny is a GP at Westongrove Primary Care Home and a highly experienced NHS leader. During his career, Johnny has built a reputation as a trusted leader and advisor, providing valued vision and insight on health and care policy on behalf of NHS membership organisations. Johnny has established effective partnerships at board level between NHS membership organisations and key partners including national NHS bodies, local government, and professional representative groups. Johnny remains passionate about adopting a population health perspective across health and care and developing sustainable support for individuals and communities, particularly through NAPC’s primary care home model. His previous roles include NAPC Chair and Director of Policy at NHS Confederation
Dr Nav Chana MBE, Clinical Director, NAPC and GP, South West London
Dr Nav Chana MBE is a practicing GP Principal, Medical Director and former Chair of the National Association of Primary Care. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of a busy Hospital in London. Nav has over 25 years of experience of care model redesign with a particular focus on population health, developing sustainable workforce models, and using technology to improve care integration. Nav was integral to the development and roll out of the primary care home (PCH) across England, the model for which Primary Care Networks were established upon. He has occupied several strategic roles with a focus on transformation of healthcare within the English NHS. Previously he has been a Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the NHS England’s new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education in London.
Dr Minesh Patel, NAPC Council Member and GP, East Grinstead
Dr Minesh Patel has been a GP for over 25 years. He is a GP Partner at Moatfield Surgery in East Grinstead. He took on the Mid-Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) lead role to adopt gold standards frameworks for coronary heart disease (CHD) and then diabetes. Minesh has been a clinical voice in commissioning and for five years was the Chair of Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group. He led a review of Stroke Services in Sussex and chairs the Sussex Sustainability Transformation Partnership (STP) Clinical Board and has also led the development of the Healthy East Grinstead Partnership Primary Care Home.
10:15 – 11:00 Neighbourhood, place and system – how can we harmonise priorities and work together?
Dr Nav Chana MBE, Clinical Director, NAPC and GP, South West London
Dr Nav Chana MBE is a practicing GP Principal, Medical Director and former Chair of the National Association of Primary Care. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of a busy Hospital in London. Nav has over 25 years of experience of care model redesign with a particular focus on population health, developing sustainable workforce models, and using technology to improve care integration. Nav was integral to the development and roll out of the primary care home (PCH) across England, the model for which Primary Care Networks were established upon. He has occupied several strategic roles with a focus on transformation of healthcare within the English NHS. Previously he has been a Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the NHS England’s new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education in London.
Dr Penny Dash, Chair, North West London Integrated Care System (ICS)
Dr Penny Dash has worked in the healthcare industry for the last 35 years, focusing on health-system strategy and advising local, regional, and national health systems globally. She is currently Senior Partner and Head of Healthcare for Europe at McKinsey & Company and was previously a Trustee and Vice Chairman for the King’s Fund, a Non-Executive Director of Monitor and Head of Strategy and Planning at the Department for Health. She is also the founder and director of the Cambridge Health Network, a discussion and networking forum with over 500 senior executives from organisations working in health.
Dr Ursula Montgomery, Director of Primary Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Ursula Montgomery is a GP Partner and the current Interim Director of Primary at NHS England and Improvement. Ursula previously served as a Senior Clinical Advisor, Primary Care Transformation at NHS England and Improvement, and was the Clinical Chair of East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning group. Ursula has held a range of positions within healthcare including Associate Medical Director at University Hospitals of Leicester, a GP partner in Leicestershire and chair of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Integrated Community board. These roles have supported teams across primary, community and acute settings in the NHS to transform care for patients.
Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive, Nuffield Trust
Nigel Edwards is a health policy researcher and the Chief Executive Officer at Nuffield Trust. Prior to becoming Chief Executive in 2014, Nigel was an expert advisor with KPMG’s Global Centre of Excellence for Health and Life Sciences and a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund. Nigel was Policy Director of the NHS Confederation for 11 years and has a wealth of experience in health and social care. He joined the organisation from his former role as Director of the London Health Economics Consortium at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he remains an honorary visiting professor. Nigel has a strong interest in new models of service delivery and a practical focus on what is happening at the front line as well as a wealth of experience in wider health care policy in the UK and internationally. Nigel is currently working with the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies on developments in health care provision in Europe.
Dr Tayo Kufeji, Director of Clinical Transformation, BLMK CCG, Clinical Director, The Bridge PCN, Milton Keynes and GP, Newport Pagnell Medical Centre
Tayo Kufeji is a GP partner in Milton Keynes, GP lead and clinical director for The Bridge Primary Care Network, which incorporates Newport Pagnell Medical Centre, Kingfisher Surgery and Brooklands Health Centre. He works with the CCG as the named GP for safeguarding and is a member of the Milton Keynes Health and Wellbeing Board and the Milton Keynes Integrated Care Partnership Steering Group.
Miriam Deakin, Director of Policy and Strategy NHS Providers
Miriam Deakin is the Director of Policy and Strategy at NHS Providers, the influential membership organisation for NHS trusts and foundation trusts. As a member of the executive leadership team, she contributes to organisational strategy at board level and helps lead and steer influencing activity. Miriam works closely with trusts and a range of national stakeholders.
11:15 – 11:45 Evolution from primary care home to neighbourhood care
Dr Tayo Kufeji, Director of Clinical Transformation, BLMK CCG, Clinical Director, The Bridge PCN, Milton Keynes and GP, Newport Pagnell Medical Centre
Tayo Kufeji is a GP partner in Milton Keynes, GP lead and clinical director for The Bridge Primary Care Network, which incorporates Newport Pagnell Medical Centre, Kingfisher Surgery and Brooklands Health Centre. He works with the CCG as the named GP for safeguarding and is a member of the Milton Keynes Health and Wellbeing Board and the Milton Keynes Integrated Care Partnership Steering Group.
Dr Minesh Patel, NAPC Council Member and GP, East Grinstead
Dr Minesh Patel has been a GP for over 25 years. He is a GP Partner at Moatfield Surgery in East Grinstead. He took on the Mid-Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) lead role to adopt gold standards frameworks for coronary heart disease (CHD) and then diabetes. Minesh has been a clinical voice in commissioning and for five years was the Chair of Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group. He led a review of Stroke Services in Sussex and chairs the Sussex Sustainability Transformation Partnership (STP) Clinical Board and has also led the development of the Healthy East Grinstead Partnership Primary Care Home.
Jag Mundra, NAPC Population Health Lead
Jag Mundra specialises in the management and application of operational research, quantitative analysis, and modelling techniques to support health systems understand population health needs. Jag has worked collaboratively with several providers of population health analytics solutions to help PCNs make practical use of their products. Jag is working with the NHS England Population Health Management team on their on their roll out of population health within ICSs and is supporting the UK Research and Innovation Healthy Aging Challenge on learning approaches. He carried out a cost benefit and population health analysis of the Primary Care Home (PCH) model of care for the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC). Whilst working for NHS London, he designed and conducted a comprehensive review of urgent care across London. He managed a large, multidisciplinary team to gather and analyse qualitative and quantitative data across the range of urgent care providers including A&E departments, Urgent Care Centres and Minor Injury Units to help redesign services in order to improve both cost effectiveness and patient outcomes.
11:45 – 12:45 Tackling workforce, recruitment and retention – and experiencing joy and meaning in our roles
Dr Caroline Taylor, Chair, NAPC and GP, Calderdale
Dr Caroline Taylor is the NAPC Chair and a GP. She is clinical vice chair of Calderdale CCG and clinical lead for mental health and children & young people. She works with SWYPFT MH trust, CHFT acute trust and West Yorkshire & Harrogate ICS on quality and improvement. She is developing an innovative mental health and wellbeing decision tree to assess and meet people’s holistic needs and reduce pressure on clinicians’ workloads. Caroline leads the unique CalderdaleCares4Us voluntary sector run initiative to support the wellbeing of public sector workers and volunteers during the pandemic. Caroline also works with other Calderdale system leaders on the innovative Calderdale Community Mental Health Transformation.
Dr Sonya Wallbank, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, The King’s Fund
Dr Sonya Wallbank is a consultant clinical psychologist and specialises in workforce resilience and restorative approaches to wellbeing. She has worked in the NHS as a director of service delivery and workforce, leading complex change and improvement programmes for NHS England and NHS Improvement, including the delivery of the health and wellbeing response for NHS staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has also led HR services and operating model change for the Department of Health and Social Care and worked directly with organisations, teams and individuals wanting to change how they work in the UK, Australia and the US. She has authored materials to enable organisations to embed their own approach to restorative supervision. Sonya lectures on how focusing supervision and support on the needs of the individual, not just the work they deliver reduces stress, burnout and improves the pleasure people derive from their work.
Nina Pearson, GP Partner, Lea Vale Medical Group and Director of Clinical Transformation, BLMK CCGs
Dr Pearson has been a partner at Lea Vale Medical Group since 2006. She trained at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and completed her GP training in Harrogate. She worked as a GP in Bradford before joining the Lea Vale practice in 2003. She is the Clinical Leader of Luton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) overseeing governance, organisational development and clinical leadership. Dr Pearson also chairs the Luton CCG board and the Transformation Board.
Professor Simon Gregory, Deputy Medical Director, Primary and Integrated Care, Health Education England
Professor Simon Gregory is the Health Education England’s (HEE) Deputy Medical Director for Primary and Integrated Care. Simon is responsible for GP/ Primary Care, Dentistry, Differential Attainment, Mental Health and Wellbeing. Simon has nearly 30 years’ experience as a GP and is also a Royal College of General Practitioners Trustee and Council member. His main research areas of interest include quality of education, training and health outcomes and performance along with differential attainment. He is particularly interested in seeking to demonstrate a link between the quality of education and learner satisfaction with this to quality-of-care provision and how this in turn may affect health outcomes.
Paul Vaughan, Deputy Director – Primary Care Nursing and NextGen Nurse, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Paul Vaughan is the Deputy Director of Primary Care Nursing and NextGen Nurse at NHS England and Improvement. Previously Paul was a Regional Director with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Leading and managing RCN services in the West Midlands, Paul worked with key stakeholders to ensure the needs of RCN members within the region were met and the interests of nurses, HCAs and nursing were promoted and protected. Paul has also been the RCN’s HCA Adviser, offering advice to HCAs, Assistant Practitioners (AP) and employers on issues relating to the employment and development of these roles. He also made a significant contribution to the development of the HCA role in general practice through his role as the National Project Manager with the Working in Partnership Programmes (WiPP), Health Care Assistant Initiative.
Vikki Beddow, NAPC Director of Strategic Partnerships and Organisational Development
Vikki is trained as a clinical nurse specialising in cancer care and has over 30 years’ healthcare experience spanning the NHS, charity and private sectors, including developing and leading NHS transformation programmes. Vikki is a member of NAPC’s senior leadership team and oversees policy and influence, partnerships with the NHS, commercial and third sector, and NAPC’s international work. She is passionate about improving healthcare from a global perspective, learning from the UK and other countries.
13:45 – 14:30 Leading through turbulence and beyond – how can we gain a new sense of purpose?
Dr Caroline Taylor, Chair, NAPC and GP, Calderdale
Dr Caroline Taylor is the NAPC Chair and a GP. She is clinical vice chair of Calderdale CCG and clinical lead for mental health and children & young people. She works with SWYPFT MH trust, CHFT acute trust and West Yorkshire & Harrogate ICS on quality and improvement. She is developing an innovative mental health and wellbeing decision tree to assess and meet people’s holistic needs and reduce pressure on clinicians’ workloads. Caroline leads the unique CalderdaleCares4Us voluntary sector run initiative to support the wellbeing of public sector workers and volunteers during the pandemic. Caroline also works with other Calderdale system leaders on the innovative Calderdale Community Mental Health Transformation.
Dr Ursula Montgomery, Director of Primary Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Ursula Montgomery is a GP Partner and the current Interim Director of Primary at NHS England and Improvement. Ursula previously served as a Senior Clinical Advisor, Primary Care Transformation at NHS England and Improvement, and was the Clinical Chair of East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning group. Ursula has held a range of positions within healthcare including Associate Medical Director at University Hospitals of Leicester, a GP partner in Leicestershire and chair of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Integrated Community board. These roles have supported teams across primary, community and acute settings in the NHS to transform care for patients.
Zulf Ali, Chief Executive, York Medical Group
Profile to follow.
Nina Pearson, GP Partner, Lea Vale Medical Group and Director of Clinical Transformation, BLMK CCGs
Dr Pearson has been a partner at Lea Vale Medical Group since 2006. She trained at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and completed her GP training in Harrogate. She worked as a GP in Bradford before joining the Lea Vale practice in 2003. She is the Clinical Leader of Luton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) overseeing governance, organisational development and clinical leadership. Dr Pearson also chairs the Luton CCG board and the Transformation Board.
14:30 – 15:15 Tackling health inequalities – lessons from the pandemic and approaches that will stand the test of time
Dr Nav Chana MBE, Clinical Director, NAPC and GP, South West London
Dr Nav Chana MBE is a practicing GP Principal, Medical Director and former Chair of the National Association of Primary Care. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of a busy Hospital in London. Nav has over 25 years of experience of care model redesign with a particular focus on population health, developing sustainable workforce models, and using technology to improve care integration. Nav was integral to the development and roll out of the primary care home (PCH) across England, the model for which Primary Care Networks were established upon. He has occupied several strategic roles with a focus on transformation of healthcare within the English NHS. Previously he has been a Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign for the NHS England’s new care models programme, Director of Education Quality for Health Education South London and Postgraduate Dean for General Practice and Community-Based Education in London.
Matthew Harris, Imperial University Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine
Matthew Harris (DPhil MBBS MSc PGCE FFPH) is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health, in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, and he is an Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. His research spans global health, innovation diffusion, and primary care and health services research with a particular focus on bidirectional learning between the NHS and low-income countries (Reverse Innovation). Prior to joining Imperial College London, Matthew worked for several years as a Primary Care physician in Brazil, as a WHO Polio Consultant in Ethiopia and as an HIV Technical Consultant in Mozambique. Matthew has published over one hundred articles in journals such as Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, International Journal of Integrated Care, Globalization and Health, BMJ Quality and Safety, Qualitative Health Research, Administration and Society, and Public Administration and Development.
Jag Mundra, NAPC Population Health Lead
Jag Mundra specialises in the management and application of operational research, quantitative analysis, and modelling techniques to support health systems understand population health needs. Jag has worked collaboratively with several providers of population health analytics solutions to help PCNs make practical use of their products. Jag is working with the NHS England Population Health Management team on their on their roll out of population health within ICSs and is supporting the UK Research and Innovation Healthy Aging Challenge on learning approaches. He carried out a cost benefit and population health analysis of the Primary Care Home (PCH) model of care for the National Association of Primary Care (NAPC). Whilst working for NHS London, he designed and conducted a comprehensive review of urgent care across London. He managed a large, multidisciplinary team to gather and analyse qualitative and quantitative data across the range of urgent care providers including A&E departments, Urgent Care Centres and Minor Injury Units to help redesign services in order to improve both cost effectiveness and patient outcomes.
15:15 – 16:00 Developing estates fit for neighbourhood care
Matthew Walker, Director of Strategy, NAPC
Prior to joining NAPC Matthew worked for 13 years as a management consultant focused on workforce strategy and planning, primary care estates strategy and investment, and the development of new models of integrated care and quality improvement. During this time, he led a multi-year STP wide programme of work supporting investment into primary and community care estates and was deputy director of primary care transformation for one of the most populated STPs in England. Matthew has been involved in the NAPC’s primary care home programme since 2015 supporting its set up, spread and evaluation. He now leads NAPC ‘s strategy and business development operations and oversees the work of NAPC Digital which supports practical digital innovation in primary and integrated care.
Dr Julia Sutton-McGough, NAPC
Julia has supported over 50 PCNs in North East and North Cumbria ICS and Cheshire and Merseyside STP, this includes facilitation of group discussions and individual support relating to population health management, workforce planning, care model development, leadership, and estates strategy development. Since 2010 Julia has run her own consultancy business. This has included the management of projects for national Health and Social Care Charity Sue Ryder, an NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington Health Plus Community Interest Company. She has supported general practices to deliver process improvements in Warrington, Leeds, and North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Groups and also to embed the Clinical Pharmacist role in practices across Yorkshire.
16:00 – 16:45 Digital adoption through a population health lens
Dr Sachin Patel, GP Partner, Wembley Park Drive Medical Centre and NWL Digital First Clinical Lead
Zulf Ali, Chief Executive, York Medical Group
Profile to follow.
Matthew Walker, Director of Strategy, NAPC
Prior to joining NAPC Matthew worked for 13 years as a management consultant focused on workforce strategy and planning, primary care estates strategy and investment, and the development of new models of integrated care and quality improvement. During this time, he led a multi-year STP wide programme of work supporting investment into primary and community care estates and was deputy director of primary care transformation for one of the most populated STPs in England. Matthew has been involved in the NAPC’s primary care home programme since 2015 supporting its set up, spread and evaluation. He now leads NAPC ‘s strategy and business development operations and oversees the work of NAPC Digital which supports practical digital innovation in primary and integrated care.
Dr Pooja Sikka, NAPC Council Member
Pooja is a NAPC Council Member and Partner at TenX Health – a hands-on venture capital firm dedicated to health tech, alongside supporting the development of NAPC Digital. She has a background in healthcare consulting and Ventures at EY and expertise in population health models. Pooja is a Locum GP in Lambeth, London where she has been practising for over ten years.
Hassan Chaudhury, Digital Health for Healthcare UK Lead, the Department of International Trade (DIT)
Profile to follow.