What is a Primary Care Network?
A primary care network is a group of practices who work together to focus on local patient care. They’ve been around since 2019 and 99 per cent of practices across England now work as part of one.
With increased demand and a shortage of clinical staff, practices find they can provide greater, more personalised care for patients when they can work together on certain services or issues.
Take a look at this short animation from NHS England which explains how they work.
About The Crays Collaborative PCN
The Crays Collaborative PCN is a network of 6 GP surgeries which are Broomwood Surgery, Crescent Surgery, Derry Downs Surgery, Gillman’s Road Surgery, Poverest Medical Centre and St Mary Cray Practice.
Our aim is to use data and technology to assess population health needs and health inequalities within our patient population of approximately 35,000 patients. This will allow us to inform, design and deliver practice and populations scale care models: support clinical decision making, and monitor performance and variation to inform continuous service improvement.
We will ensure we are making the best use of collective resources across practices and other local health and care providers to allow greater resilience and access to a larger range of professional groups.
To achieve this, we are supported by additional roles such as paramedics, pharmacists, social prescribers, physician’s Associates, care coordinators and GP Assistants.