Every Practice is Different – Lessons Learned from Our Pre-Deployment Visit to Mirfield Health Centre
During CheckUp Health’s pre-deployment visit to Mirfield Health Centre, the team had the pleasure of meeting with Dr Mohammed Hussain, a GP Partner at the practice and Lauren Hill, the Practice Manager. This visit provided valuable insights into the unique ways in which individual practices operate.
In August 2025, our CheckUp Health team continued the pre-deployment phase of our GP Foundation Solution, this time at Mirfield Health Centre. This practice is slightly larger than Eightlands and its GP is also a partner. The visit emphasised something we have always known, but experienced once again: no two practices operate in the same way.
Why This Matters
The NHS England TIF (Tech Innovation Framework) is designed to give practices meaningful choice, recognising that local context shapes how systems must work in real life. Our Foundation Solution is built to be flexible, interoperable, and adaptable — but adaptability starts with listening. Pre-deployment is our opportunity to truly understand each practice’s unique ways of working before anything goes live; ensuring their new system meets their needs.
Lessons Learned from Mirfield: Scoping in Action
- Variation in governance structures – Partner-led decision-making influenced how project timelines and responsibilities were shaped.
- Workflow differences – Despite being geographically close to Eightlands, the clinical and administrative flows at Mirfield were strikingly different, highlighting the need for tailored training and onboarding.
- Data and technical readiness – Larger patient numbers and legacy system dependencies required a more detailed review of migration risks and contingency planning.
- Culture and change appetite – The team showed enthusiasm but also clear priorities around safeguarding continuity of care during transition.
These insights will not only shape our deployment at Mirfield but will also enrich our wider First of Type (FoT) programme, ensuring future rollouts can account for variation across England.
Practice Feedback Shapes the Path Ahead
Direct engagement with the Mirfield team reminded us that technology adoption succeeds when it reflects lived experience. Their candid feedback on reporting, QOF requirements, and integration with existing clinical tools is guiding us as we refine training, support, and assurance activities.
A Thank You to the Mirfield Team
We are grateful for the warm welcome and constructive input from the Mirfield Health Centre team. Your openness and willingness to share how you work is helping us ensure our solution supports practices as they are — not as we imagine them to be.
What’s Next?
We will continue to capture and share insights from each pre-deployment visit, using them to strengthen our national rollout strategy. By acknowledging and adapting to local differences, we can deliver a platform that is safe, scalable, and genuinely supportive of everyday general practice.
Follow our journey as we bring modern, agile, patient-first technology into general practice. This is digital health in action – the CheckUp Health way.
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