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Richmondshire Primary Care Network

Richmondshire Primary Care Network (PCN) is an NHS collaboration between eight Richmondshire GP practices who are working together with other health and care providers in the Richmondshire area to improve access to health and care services and information for local people.

What is a Primary Care Network?

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, 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. PCNs increase the range of services available to patients (such as First Contact Physiotherapist and Social Prescribing) and allow practices to share resources and expertise.

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