The General Practice Podcast: Vicky Maskill and Adam Davies on Transforming Healthcare
In the June 23, 2025 episode of The General Practice Podcast from Ockham Healthcare with Ben Gowland, Vicky Maskill (Director of NHS strategy and Partnerships) and Adam Davies (Health & Wellbeing Services Lead) share their insights into how Pure Unity Health is leading the way in delivering First Contact Physiotherapy services across the UK. […]
The DES 25/26 and the new CVD QOF indicators: Achieving QOF targets, aligning with the NHS key aims, and improving patient care
The 2025/26 Network Contract DES has put a sharp focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, with new QOF indicators that directly impact practice income. The NHS Long-term plan identified CVD as a clinical priority and “the single biggest condition where lives can be saved over the next 10 years” (NHS, 2019). CVD affects approximately 7m […]
Health Coaching, Chronic Pain, and the DES: Reducing GP strain by supporting the patients who need it most
Across the UK, general practice is under immense pressure. GPs are managing growing demand, increasing complexity, and limited time — a situation that is becoming unsustainable. But what if we could alleviate some of that pressure by focusing on the individuals who use the system the most? A major study by Kontopantelis et al. (2023) […]