OUR PRIMARY CARE NETWORK

What is a Primary Care Network?

Primary care networks (PCNs) are groups of practices working together to build on the current primary care services whilst giving greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Small enough to provide personal care whilst being large enough to benefit from the impact of collaboration. Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have 59 GP practices, organised into 14 primary care networks.

The Primary Care Network has GP and practice manager representatives from all of the surgeries and we are committed to achieving:

• the best use of local health resources

• care as close to home as possible

We provide and innovate a model of care at a regional level, using a population health needs-led approach.

Our Clinical Director is Dr Kate Embling and the Strategic Manager is Sheila Byford-Rew.