The Primary Care Networks are a key aspect of the NHS Long Term Plan.
- GP practices are part of a network and generally cover between 30,000 to 50,000.
- Our PCN consists of Wargrave surgery, Woodley Centre surgery and Parkside Family Practice.
- The aim is to build on existing primary care services to enable a more proactive, personalised, coordinated and a more integrated health and social care.
- An example of our PCN working together. The hugely successful Vaccination Programme. Where the three surgeries coordinated and worked together to complete over 50,000 vaccinations across all clinics
Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians
Clinical pharmacists work in primary care as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
They work with and alongside the general practice team, taking responsibility for patients with chronic diseases and undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially for the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
- Clinical Pharmacist: Annalisa Di Maria
- Pharmacy technician: Santosh Suman
- Prescription clerk: Anita Withers
Physician’s Assistant
Physician’s Assistants (PAs) are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education who work alongside doctors providing medical care as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
Physician’s Assistants are dependent practitioners who work under the supervision of a fully trained and experienced doctor. They bring new talent and add to the skill mix within teams, providing a stable, generalist section of the workforce which can help ease the workforce pressures that the NHS currently faces.
- Physician Associates: Kayla Manuel
Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
To find information about the support offered for Mental Health and Wellbeing, please visit the Mental Health Support in Berkshire | Help, Advice & Awareness
- Mind representative: Mandy salter
- Social Prescriber: Julia Wheeler
- Mental health Nurse: Iram Fatima
Care Coordinator
Care coordinators play an important role within a PCN to proactively identify and work with people, including the frail/elderly and those with long-term conditions, to provide coordination and navigation of care and support across health and care services. The care coordinator role helps to ensure patient health and care planning is timely, efficient, and patient-centred. This is achieved by bringing together all the information about a person’s identified care and support needs and exploring options to meet these within a single personalised care and support plan, based on what matters to the person.
The care coordination role is embedded within the Primary Care Network and aligns to the NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment to make personalised care business as usual across the health and care system.
- Care coordinator: Mary Adeyemi