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The new White Paper setting out the legislative proposals for a Health and Care Bill is a clear encouragement to collaborate and integrate. It is explicit that national policy, legal and regulatory frameworks affecting the NHS have impeded, restricted and delayed the practical integration of health and care around families and patients even where the will has been there. 

As a GP Principal for the last 19 years running a list size of 5,000, one of my sadnesses was that my patients weren’t getting joined up care. I wasn’t giving it and as a system we weren’t able to deliver it, but primary care networks are changing that.

Collaboration. Everyone agrees it’s a good thing. But evaluating it needs care and consideration. It’s more than data, it’s about people and long term shifts in culture and working practices.

Covid-19 has thrown us into the arms of new digital technology like little else before. Video conferencing for appointments is no longer a surprise, and the fact that Covid-19 tests (where available) should be booked online seems completely natural. While no one can deny that the rate of change in digital healthcare has increased, how much of this change is likely to remain with us long term?

If the future is collaboration, where are we now, and how do we bridge the gap? If we’re genuine about the high aspirations we have for primary care networks, integrated care systems, etc, do we know how big a challenge that is?

How do we reimagine a governance structure that once supported us, but is now hindering us? Theo Cox reflects on this week's ABC Chat with Heather Moorhead.

Digital tools, check ins and altruism. Rose Minshall tells us what we can do to continue fostering community and connection while isolating and working from home.

And then suddenly, just like that, we had no choice. Digital meetings are no longer an unusual (and often unpleasant) trial, but for many of us homeworkers, the only way business happens.

Suzanne Shale discusses why we need to concentrate more on making our organisations civil places to work. It's about respecting one another, but so much more as well.

Ohio. Famous for picking US presidents (28 out of the last 30), and the birthplace of aviation (the Wright brothers grew up here in 1870s). Less famous for being home of a number of the most advanced healthcare networks in the world.