Primary Care Networks

10th April 2019

Within the recent NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England set out a number of ambitions including Primary Care Networks.  As populations have changed over the last 70 years, with many more people living longer and with long term conditions, the demand on health services has also increased.

To meet these needs, practices have begun working together and with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in primary care networks.

Primary care networks build on the core of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care.

Primary care networks will be based on GP registered lists, typically serving natural communities of around 30,000 to 50,000. They should be small enough to provide the personal care valued by both patients and GPs, but large enough to have impact and economies of scale through better collaboration between practices and others in the local health and social care system.

Find out more through case studies from across the country where primary care networks are already making a difference to staff and patients.

For more information visit: Kings Fund – NHS Long Term Plan explained and Kings Fund- Primary Care Networks explained.

The NHS England GP contract five-year framework also provides detailed information on:

• NHS Long Term Plan
• GP Contract 2019
• QOF/DES guidance 2019
• Network contract DES
• Quality improvement modules guidance (EOL & prescribing)

For more information please visit: NHS England – GP Contract