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About this primary care intake
The Nye Bevan Programme has supported emerging senior leaders across the NHS and healthcare for many years, helping participants build the confidence, behaviours and system leadership capabilities needed to work at a senior level. This primary care intake has been created in recognition of the vital role that primary care leadership – including system, primary care network, and neighbourhood based senior leadership – plays in improving population health and strengthening care closer to home.
As the NHS and healthcare continues to focus on integration, prevention and more collaborative ways of working, there is a growing need for strong, system minded leaders within general practice and wider primary care services. This intake offers targeted development for senior clinical leaders in primary care, equipping them to lead meaningful change across neighbourhood teams and improve outcomes for local communities.
Programme overview
The Nye Bevan Programme is designed to develop leaders with the confidence and capability to operate at a senior, system‑wide level. For this primary care intake, participants will take part in a structured blend of learning that includes:
- leadership workshops – online and face to face
- learning set meetings focused on real system leadership challenges
- applied leadership practice within primary care including system, primary network and neighbourhood
- programme submission including reflective tasks, leadership diagnostics or equivalent
- coaching and peer support
Cohort dates
To be eligible for this intake of the Nye Bevan Programme, you must be available to attend all residential workshop dates for at least one of the two available cohorts. This 12‑month programme requires a significant commitment of approximately 15 hours per week and includes 4 residential workshops, this is 11 days in total, delivered both in-person and virtually, alongside 7 learning set meetings.
Please see the cohort dates below:
| Workshop | Cohort 41 | Cohort 42 | Duration |
| Knowing Yourself and Others (Leeds) | 08 – 11 September 2026 | 15 – 18 September 2026 | 4 days |
| Broadening Horizons (Leeds) | 08 – 10 December 2026 | 15 – 17 December 2026 | 3 days |
| Making the Case for Change (Leeds) | 02 – 04 March 2027 | 16 – 18 March 2027 | 3 days |
| Viva (Virtual) | 11 May 2027 | 18 May 2027 | 1 day |
Watch this short video which is 2 minutes 30 seconds long featuring Pritti Mehta, a Nye Bevan Programme participant. In the video, she shares her reasons for joining the programme, what she gained from the experience, and how she applied her learning in practice.
Applicants should also consider the level of support they may need from colleagues, peers, managers, family and wider networks, as this is a personally challenging leadership development programme.
Thank you for your interest in applying for this primary care intake of the Nye Bevan Programme and we look forward to working with both participants and sponsors throughout the programme journey. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require any support [email protected].