Aldershot Primary Care Network

Aldershot Primary Care Network Link

The Aldershot GP practices are part of a Primary Care Network so that working in a more joined up way (collaborative) we can offer more choice to our patients and be part of more demanding initiatives that are asked of us which as individual practices could be more challenging to do and less efficient.

More information on what a Primary Care Network is here

What is a PCN? More can be found via our link and the Gov.UK link above

Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown and people are living longer. Many people live with long term conditions such as diabetes and heart disease or suffer with mental health issues and may need to access their local health services more often.

To meet these needs, practices have begun working together and with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in primary care networks.

Primary care networks, or PCNs, build on the core of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve. Where emerging primary care networks are now in place in parts of the country, there are clear benefits for patients and clinicians.

Refreshing NHS Plans for 2018-191 set out the ambition for Clinical Commissioning Groups to actively encourage every practice in their area to be part of a local primary care network so that these will cover the whole country, as far as possible, by the end of 2018/19.

PCNs will be based on GP registered lists, typically serving natural communities of around 30,000 to 50,000. They should be small enough to provide the personal care valued by both patients and GPs but large enough to have impact and economies of scale through better collaboration between practices and others in the local health and social care system.

(Source: NHS England).