Dr Vikesh Sharma - Community Enterprise Builder - a podcast by Dr Shubs Upadhyay

Shubs talks to Dr Vikesh Sharma about his award winning Community Enterprise serving the Lambeth area.

Vikesh shares his insights and challenges in building a solution to a problem that was affecting the Health Outcomes for a large part of the population his Practice served. His project has won local awards and been granted funding to grow. He also talks about how GP partners are perfectly placed to innovate.

Some abbreviations used:
CCG - Clinical Commissioning Group
LCN - Local Care Network

Some interesting further reading:
Portuguese national news media stories - https://www.facebook.com/siclondres/videos/1246135605422268/
https://www.facebook.com/siclondres/posts/1489133697789123

Published Paper exploring the effect of language and health inequalities: http://bjgpopen.org/content/1/4/bjgpopen17X101241

Ripple effects and Scalability: On the back of the learnings from Vikesh's project, a similar one has opened up in Lisbon for the Bangladeshi community there with similar issues (you'll probably need it translated!): https://sites.google.com/view/bengalisboaproject

To see more check out the 2 GPs in a Pod website -https://www.2gpsinapod.co.uk/

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