Podcast - Bobby Pozzoni-Child - Building Primary Care Together: How Buckinghamshire Is Turning Integration into Action

Integrated neighbourhood working has been talked about for years, but what does it actually look like when it's put into practice?

In this episode, Ben Gowland is joined by Bobby Pozzoni-Child, Director of Partnerships and Transformation for the Buckinghamshire Primary Care Provider Collaborative. Bobby explains how Buckinghamshire has evolved from a GP Provider Alliance into a truly integrated primary care collaborative, bringing together general practice, community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry to create a stronger collective voice and deliver better care.

If you're interested in neighbourhood health, integration, system leadership or the future role of primary care, this episode offers practical lessons from a system that's already making it happen.

Introduction (00:08)

Why Buckinghamshire expanded beyond general practice (01:29)

Bringing GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists together (02:41)

Creating a stronger voice for primary care across the system (04:31)

Why neighbourhood working needs relationships and delivery (06:05)

How Buckinghamshire is turning collaboration into action (08:01)

Building neighbourhood teams and local leadership (10:23)

Keeping practices engaged as neighbourhoods grow (11:45)

Delivering measurable results through integrated working (14:27)

How attitudes towards primary care are changing (16:49)

From planning neighbourhoods to delivering care (18:51)

Why Bucks isn't waiting for national contracts (20:57)

Lessons learned from leading system-wide integration (22:40)

Why expanding to wider primary care was the right move (25:59)

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