YORLMC podcast

Hear more about Green Social Prescribing in this discussion between

• Dr Margaret Jackson, Co-Chair of Greener Practice North Yorkshire

• Anthony Hurd, Programme Manager for the Humber and North Yorkshire Green Social Prescribing Programme

• Dr Hannah Armitt, Clinical Research Psychologist at Humber NHS Teaching Foundation Trust and Clinical Lead for HNY Green Social Prescribing Programme

Find out more about some of the project mentioned in this podcast at the links below:

Hear from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer about non-clinical environmental impacts from general practice including

• energy
• travel
• goods & services

and ideas and tips on how these impacts can be reduced.

Listen to the next in a series of Environmental Specials from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer. This episode focuses on inappropriate overmedicalisation and tips that GPs and practices may wish to consider.

Find out more about being a YORLMC member in this discussion between York Locality Member Dr Naomi Chinn and YORLMC Medical Secretary Dr Brian McGregor.

All locality seats on North Yorkshire & York and Bradford & Airedale LMC will be up for election early next year and in this podcast, Naomi and Brian look at

• the opportunities of being a member
• why to consider standing
• induction and development for members
• forthcoming elections

GPMplus offers a range of full-funded courses for GPs and practice staff including a special course looking at The Green Practice. This 90 minute course, run on Zoom, looks at how green changes can improve health, reduce health inequalities, improve workload and reduce costs whilst mitigating against the climate crisis. It is designed to help you understand where you can make changes, and give you the tools to begin.

In this podcast, GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon talks to Dr Sally Franks, who in addition to being the GPMplus Associate Mentoring Lead also facilitates The Green Practice course. Sally and Jonathan discuss what you can expect from the course, the benefits it offers and who will find it most useful.

Hear from Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer about waste and recycling looking at

• what can be done in the practice
• what can patients do at home

As part of YORLMC’s ongoing support for practices, in July 2022 YORLMC launched GPAS (General Practice Alert System). Developed by colleagues at Devon LMC, GPAS (General Practice Alert State) collects an amount of anonymised data from practices.  This anonymised data from individual practices is combined to indicate to the broader NHS system the pressure General Practice is under.

In this episode, YORLMC Strategy & Development Officer Jack Burgess and Medical Director Dr Danielle Hann look back on the first year of GPAS in North Yorkshire & York and Bradford & Airedale, and how your data is helping demonstrate the challenges currently facing general practice.

An update from LMC Law director and lawyer Shanee Baker about contracts including

• what is a contract?
• what is a memorandum of understanding?
• what should I look out for in a contract?

Find out more about planetary health and how it affects healthcare in the second environmental special podcast with Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Rumina Önaç and Dr Matt Sawyer.

Practice Manager Joanne Rowe discuss her practice's experience of the Healthy Practice programme. In discussion with GPMplus Healthy Practice Clinical Lead, Dr John Bibby, Joanne talks about

• the impact the programme had at her practice
• improvements in staff wellbeing
• the value of the Healthy Practice courses, offered as part of this programme and available separately

Practice Manager Catherine Smith discuss her practice's experience of the Healthy Practice programme. In discussion with GPMplus Healthy Practice Clinical Lead, Dr John Bibby, Catherine talks about

• why her practice took part in the programme pilot
• how the programme works
• the benefits that the practice and staff took from the experience

Hear from GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Ian Wilson about the service available from GPMplus for dentists and how mentoring can help you at all stages of your career.

Hear from GPMplus Mentoring Lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Garrey Haase about the service available from GPMplus for optometrists and how mentoring can help you at all stages of your career, for example:

• Early career – feeling overwhelmed or wanting advice with career development?
• Mid career – feeling isolated or struggling with work-life balance?
• Late career – need support with succession and retirement planning?

Hear from GPMplus mentoring lead Dr Jonathan Dixon and mentor Laura Angus about the mentoring service available for pharmacists from GPMplus.

Joanne Rowe and Chris Brennan are both Practice/Business Managers as well as mentors with GPMplus. In this podcast, find out from Joanne and Chris:

• How can GPMplus mentoring help managers that are new to general practice management?

• How can GPMplus mentoring help established/experienced Practice Managers?

• How can Managers find the time for mentoring?