brightSOLUTIONS
supporting GP Practices

Dee Lynes is well known amongst GP practices across York, East Ridings and North Yorkshire. She worked as a Practice Manager in a small rural practice in North Yorkshire with 8,000 patients for four years before setting up brightSOLUTIONS in 2013. She quickly gained a reputation for delivering complex projects, particularly practice mergers and acquisitions.

 

Dee's earlier career was in the VCSE and local authority sectors and she remains a strong advocate of cross-sector collaboration to improve patient outcomes. Now with over 30 years' experience and knowledge of working in both general practice and social care, she brings a unique perspective to her work.

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Dee's current interests include succession planning for GP practices, reviewing corporate governance arrangements of GP Federations and incorporated Primary Care Networks and providing an independent assessment of Board leadership. (She has experience as both a company secretary and non-executive director.) Dee particularly enjoys building teams and bringing unique combinations of people and organisations together to find creative solutions to tough problems. ​

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Dee has a proven track record of consistently delivering high quality results even within the most challenging circumstances. She brings a genuine ethos of partnership working to all her work, and is skilled in both uniting stakeholders around a common goal and delivering pragmatic solutions to complex challenges.

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Other Roles​

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• Founder of The trustedGRAPEVINE. (February 2025.)

• Lay member of the Department of Health and Social Care's Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards, Yorkshire and Humber sub-committee. (Since April 2023.)