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Primary Care Networks (PCN) Knares Medical Practice is working together with practices in West Basildon PCN to improve patients quality of care.

Primary care networks were introduced in January 2019, which gave the opportunity for GP practices to join networks each with between 30,000 and 50,000 patients.

The Knares Medical Practice is in West Basildon PCN (WBPCN) made up of five practices in Basildon with a population of approximately 50,000 patients.

ln order to support Practices, Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) was established, to provide a multi-disciplinary teams to provide more integrated health and social care services locally. The patients are able to benefit from the following roles of healthcare providers-

Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Social Prescribing Link Worker, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Care Coordinator, Physician Associate, First Contact Physiotherapist, Dietician, Podiatrist, Occupational Therapist, Trainee Nursing Associate, Paramedics, Advanced Practitioner and Advanced Mental Health Practitioner.

With these additional workforce, The Knares Medical Practice will be able to book patients onto those additional roles, to enable the GPs and and Nurses to devote more time to other quality of services framework.

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For NEW Registration to register with a GP you can download a GMS1 registration form required for this on  www.gov.uk/government/publications/gms1 and bring or send to the surgery.

The practice has 21% sign up of online services have you signed up yet?

Accessible Information Standard

This means that Medical and Social Care professionals spend time getting to know their patients and how they prefer to communicate and receive information.

Many people with Learning Disabilities face barriers when accessing information such as missed appointments, taking medication and medical conditions that they don’t understand.

 

The Accessible Information Standard exists to make sure that people with Learning Disabilities who need services made accessible get the right information and communication support.

 

 

For more information or help please contact:

 

Change,

4th Floor, Calls Landing,

36-38 The Calls,

Leeds,

LS2 7EW

 

Telephone – 0113 242 6619

Fax                 0113 242 6142

 

Or info@changepeople.org



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