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Our sincere thanks to Mike for taking the time to join us, provide insights and answer questions from our members and stakeholders.

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Finally, on leadership and decision-making:

"We should be empowering ourselves. I'm a big believer in distributed leadership, but people in the chain of distributed leadership need to be able to see the big picture... It requires creating that context and then devolving that authority."

On innovation and health & life sciences:

• NI's small population provides significant opportunities for strategic industry partnerships to address some of our burning problems

• Such investment could alleviate constraints on the public purse - But will require leadership and clinical empowerment

On the role of the VCSE sector:

• VCS orgs play a vital role, connecting with people at the community level and helping manage conditions that would otherwise drive patients towards general practice: They must be seen as an equal partner

• Longer-term VCS contracts would be mutually beneficial

On primary care & the shift left:

• Shifting resources towards primary care can help manage the % increase in the overall draw on NI’s spend

• Reducing unwarranted clinical variability at the first point-of-contact and scaling initiatives like MDTs & GP Federations are important areas of focus