Primary Care Networks
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, GP practices are working together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital, and voluntary services in their local areas in groups of practices known as primary care networks (PCNs).
PCNs build on existing primary care services and 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.
We are part of the Grays PCN (Primary Care Network) which is a network of GPs practices established to provide integrated services to the local population. Members of the network are:
Balfour Medical Centre
Stifford Clays Medical Practice
Yadava Practice
The Grays Surgery
Dell Medical Centre (& Stanford Surgery)
Primecare Medical Centre
Milton Road Surgery
Oddfellows Hall Health Centre
St Clements Health centre
Thurrock Health Centre
Chafford Hundred Medical Centre
By operating as a network, we as the PCN are responsible for delivering the following services working collaboratively with other providers:
Social Prescribing; Covid Vaccination Programme; First Contact Physiotherapy; First Contact Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Where necessary and relevant to support your direct care, we will share your confidential patient information with members of our network and with our collaborative organisations to support safe, efficient and effective care and treatment.
If you are not happy for your health data to be shared with the organisations detailed above if you wish to access PCN services, then you can object to this. To do so you should contact your registered Practice so they can discuss the potential impact this could have on your care and treatment.
Further information can be found on the Grays PCN website: https://www.grayspcn.nhs.uk/