Primary care networks: five minutes with . . . Sohail Munshi

“In Manchester we’re probably a little bit ahead of the descriptions around primary care networks than what appears in the long term plan. We have 12 integrated neighbourhood teams and, like other areas, they each cover about 50 000 patients. But we’ve also integrated social care formally into that relationship.

“We’re based in the city of Manchester, where we already had a partnership agreement between the major stakeholders—the city council, the …