It’s the third in our series of podcasts focused on the preparations for Integrated Care Systems! This time, we meet with Adrian Loades, who is the Corporate Director of People at the London Borough of Redbridge, responsible for Adults and Children’s Social Care (and Education), and Public Health within his remit. Adrian chats to Ben about his thoughts on the preparations and the build up so far towards the new systems of working, the priorities on the local council agenda and how these already align with much of what primary care is aiming to achieve, how general practice and local authorities can come together to establish strong, multi-agency partnerships and ultimately, what we need to do in practice, across the board, to maximise health outcomes in an integrated world. Introduction (9 secs) Meeting Adrian (40 secs) Adrian’s experiences of working within the local authority (1 min 5 secs) Is there a council perspective on general practice? (2 mins 20 secs) The barriers to establishing relationships with general practice, from the council’s point of view (3 mins 43 secs) Collective working through the pandemic (4 mins 44 secs) Examples of strong multi-agency initiatives (5 mins 59 secs) The health inequalities agenda (7 mins 10 secs) Moving into an ICS environment (8 mins 9 secs) Neighbourhoods and place-based working (9 mins 28 secs) Are councils and general practice natural allies when it comes to embedding a place-based approach within an ICS? (11 mins 7 secs) How will working at place, actually work in practice? (11 mins 45 secs) What are the key factors when it comes to embedding a place-based approach? (13 mins) Adrian’s advice for general practice in making a success of working at place (14 mins 12 secs) Focusing on the needs of the residents, instead of prioritising a political agenda (15 mins 23 secs) Cultivating relationships with those who can influence council leaders (17 mins 3 secs) Neighbourhoods and Primary Care Networks (18 mins 4 secs) The local authority view of PCNs (20 mins 21 secs) Leveraging PCNs as a means for establishing strong neighbourhoods (20 mins 58 secs) Advice for PCNs on building relationships within the wider ICS network (21 mins 56 secs) Support for general practice on sourcing additional space (23 mins 2 secs) Who to contact at local authority level (23 mins 59 secs) PCN Plus (24 mins 32 secs)   There are still a few spaces left on our PCN Plus online programme! Aimed at new PCN Clinical Directors, and experienced PCN Managers, and featuring a team of experts, we will be delivering training and advise on all the need to knows, including (and not limited to); establishment of a PCN vision, communications, managing finances and workforce, and preparations for integrated care systems. If you are interested in learning more, or you’re keen to sign up now, please visit our dedicated webpage or you can contact Ben for further information.