Primary Care Networks are expected to mature at pace and improve the health outcomes of their populations
Primary Care
Primary Care and General Practice are under pressure. The volume and intensity of workload have increased, there are backlogs of care resulting from the pandemic, and there remains a continued uncertainty around the future workforce and a renewed expectation to work at scale in Primary Care Networks and within ICSs.
- Whether it’s the transformation of a practice, its systems, processes or behaviours, the development of a PCN or the redesign of a care pathway benefitting from new ways of working, we get to know you and understand your challenges and then co-create tailored solutions to tackle them.
- SCW partners with Primary Care to design coordinated, personalised and integrated solutions.
Primary care support
Our team is here to engage in transformational conversations, apply our hands-on experience, and work with you to identify opportunities and solutions to address the challenges facing primary care.
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Latest blogs
Is it time to incorporate your Primary Care Network?
General Practice continues to face challenges from many directions: workforce challenges, the challenges of increasing demand and the challenge of ensuring general practice remains a financially viable entity in the system coupled with the challenges inherent with the expectations of working collabo...
Harnessing Primary Care’s voice within ICSs to enable sustainable change
General practice, primary care networks (PCNs) and Local Medical Committees (LMCs) all want to ensure strong, resilient, sustainable general practice with good, high functioning and high performing primary care networks.
ICSs and the drive to improve health and reduce inequalities
Andrew Fenton reflects on a re-energised NHS focus on health inequalities, a place-based approach, and the vital role of ICS partnerships.
Supporting GP resilience
NHS England (Wessex) commissioned SCW to support the national GP Resilience Programme. Working with over 50 practices identified by their CCGs or through the self-referral process SCW helped them to understand their challenges and identify opportunities to build practice resilience and benefit from the available funding.
Colleagues from the practices share their experience of working with our PCN team, the support we provided, and how it helped their resilience.
Case studies
Increasing childhood GP registration for the cost of a stamp
NHS South, Central and West currently delivers Child Health Information Services (CHIS) to 32% of the 0–19 population in England. Approximately 1% of 0–6-year-olds within the areas we cover are not re...
Boosting a team's health inequalities skills from awareness to empowerment
NHS England’s (NHSE) Primary Care Group wanted to upskill their staff so that, rather than health inequalities being the responsibility of few specialists, all staff were empowered to consider health ...
Taking charge of the TUPE transfer of staff to Cheltenham Peripheral PCN
Cheltenham Peripheral Primary Care Network (CPPCN) commissioned SCW to provide support to plan and ensure the safe transfer of staff to them by the 1st April 2023.
Services
Primary care support
Our team is here to engage in transformational conversations, apply our hands-on experience, and work with you to identify opportunities and solutions to address the challenges facing primary care.
Primary care system-level support
We work across the health and care sector focusing on primary care, from the national team, through regions and down to ICB, Integrated Neighbourhood Team and PCN level. Our approach builds on our exp...
Geospatial solutions to support Primary Care commissioning
Our geospatial consultants are experts in creating location-based solutions that layer population and health data to visualise trends, unlock patterns and reveal insights.