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.
Supporting primary care
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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Mince pies and multi-disciplinary teams: The impact of ARRS roles in primary care
With all the evidence indicating that the NHS is facing yet another bleak winter with significant (an understatement) pressure across the health and care system including waiting list challenges, A an...
How can we support community pharmacies to be able to speed up leukaemia diagnosis?
Leukaemia claims more lives than breast and prostate cancer every year, and blood cancers have a higher rate of emergency diagnosis than other cancer types, but the awareness of its symptoms amongst t...
The role of Primary Care Networks and the vision for the future
Meeting the challenges of General Practice means providing coordinated and integrated care to populations through communities of care that encourage people to lead happier and healthier lives.
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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
Working with a PCN to develop a Community of Care
By working collaboratively and harnessing the skills and assets within the community, we delivered new models of care focusing on the needs of a population - joining up a true care community and comin...
Insight into community dental services captured through national engagement platform
NHS England (NHSE/I) asked us to support the national Primary Care Community Services and Strategy Directorate with the design, implementation, and analysis of a survey of dental working patterns acro...
National and local insights drive innovative primary care workforce planning
SCW was asked to deliver an insight-driven primary care programme to PCNs within the Buckingham, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care System (ICS). This required the development of a...
Services
Urgent and emergency care
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 urgent and emerg...
Carbon net zero
Working in partnership with NHS England, NHS Providers, and Integrated Care Systems, we provide expert support services to help the NHS achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2045.
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Elective care
The NHS is currently seeing its highest number of people waiting to receive planned care since records began in 2007. Working to reduce these backlogs to pre-pandemic levels is critical for the NHS an...