CQC Practice Healthcheck At 9:17 on a perfectly ordinary Tuesday morning, the phone rings. The conversation is polite, professional and entirely expected. Yet somehow the effect is remarkably similar to…
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Many organisations working in neighbourhood health and public sector delivery are doing genuinely good work. The problem is that doing good work and being able to present that work compellingly to…
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Stakeholder mapping alone changes nothing. Excellence means translating population diversity into explicit service requirements, holding all providers accountable, and allocating resources where they actually work. You have done brilliant stakeholder mapping. You understand…
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The NHS Neighbourhood framework provides some clear direction on targeting population cohorts. Knowing where to start can be the first hurdle. At Scale have been working with Children…
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Over the last few years, and there have been many, I’ve spent a lot of time alongside GP practices and PCNs getting ‘CQC-ready’. And increasingly, I’ve noticed something: the teams…
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The new Neighbourhood Health Framework doesn’t rewrite the future for general practice, but it certainly sharpens it.
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At Scale works across a wide range of organisations involved in health and wellbeing, including NHS providers, primary care networks, GP federations, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations. That cross-sector…
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Alice Benton People sometimes ask why we are called At Scale. The short answer is that we spotted the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) used the phrase a lot, but…
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Alice Benton First, Penny Dash has spoken openly about NHS England’s concern over the rigour of management behind neighbourhood working. That resonated. Across the country there are committed teams doing impressive things…
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Mike Gill In 2016 I wrote a book called How to Survive Austerity. What briefly outsold political memoirs in 2016 now reads like a manual for 2025. This series updates…
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