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What are Primary Care Networks?
Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the modern NHS, bringing together groups of local general practices to work at scale. Building on existing primary care services, they enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people, close to home.
Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve.
Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown and people are living longer. Many people are living 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, PCNs are working together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas.
PCNs are led by clinical directors who may be a GP, general practice nurse, clinical pharmacist or other clinical profession working in general practice.
There were more than 15,000 missed GP appointments in Lincolnshire during 2023. Keep it or cancel it, but please don't forget it!
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