Five minutes with . . . Phil Richardson

“We started the work on our sustainability and transformation partnership by looking at a population, rather than the individual organisations within it. We did initially fall into the trap of getting distracted by the expensive and challenging acute sector, when in reality that isn’t where the benefits will come from. Most care—95%—is delivered in the community. We talk about community as an integration between mental health, community services, general practice, and primary care, which then …