brightSOLUTIONS
supporting GP Practices

Dee 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 to "provide a spare pair of hands when Practices need them". She quickly gained a reputation for successfully delivering complex projects - notably practice mergers - and in 2013 was invited by Medeconomics (now GP Business) to contribute three chapters to their popular Guide to Practice Mergers and update these in October 2024.

 

Dee's interests include reviewing the organisational performance of GP Federations and Primary Care Networks and the performance of their Boards. She is passionate about working with Directors to strengthen their corporate governance arrangements, and providing an independent assessment of Board leadership and performance. She also has experience as both a company secretary and non-executive director.

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Dee is an experienced facilitator and an accredited interpersonal mediator.

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Dee's earlier career was in the VCSE and local authority sectors. She remains a strong advocate of cross-sector collaboration to improve patient outcomes. With over 25 years' experience and knowledge of working in both general practice and social care, she brings a unique perspective to the integration agenda. ​

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