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The Greater Preston Primary Care Network (GPPCN) brings together 9 GP practices across Preston, working collaboratively to improve the health and wellbeing of our local communities. Together, our member practices provide care for over 100,000 patients.
What does GPPCN do?
We work alongside our member GP practices and local partners to provide additional services and support for patients. Our work includes improving access to appointments, supporting people with their wider health and wellbeing needs, developing services for local communities and helping practices work together effectively.
Our services and initiatives include Enhanced Access, Social Prescribing, pharmacy services and a range of PCN projects designed around the needs of our local population.
Our team
GPPCN has a team of clinical and non-clinical staff who work alongside GP practice teams and local services. Our staff are based within practices and across the local community, helping to provide additional support for patients and practices.
The Network is led by an Operational Management team, Finance Lead and Clinical Director, with oversight from a Management Board made up of a Lead GP from each member practice.
We are proud to work together across Greater Preston to provide accessible, person-centred and joined-up care, supporting patients and helping our local practices deliver the best possible care for their communities.
Since the NHS was created in 1948, people are living longer and the health needs of our communities are changing. More people are living with long-term conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, while others may need additional support with their mental health or wider wellbeing. This means that health and care services need to work together to provide the right support when people need it.
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) were developed to help GP practices work more closely together and with other local services. PCNs bring GP practices together with community and mental health services, social care, pharmacies, hospitals and voluntary and community organisations to provide more joined-up care and support for local people.
By working as a network, practices can share knowledge, skills and resources, develop additional services and respond to the changing needs of the local population. This allows us to provide more proactive, personalised, coordinated and joined-up care, while making it easier for people to access support closer to home.
For patients, this means working together to improve access to services and make sure care is better coordinated around their individual needs. Our aim is to help people access the right care, at the right time and as close to home as possible.
Each PCN is led by a Clinical Director, who works with member GP practices and the wider PCN team to support the development and delivery of local services.
