Projects

PCN Outreach

Our PCN Outreach Team delivers health support directly within the community through local events and pop-up sessions. By offering quick health checks, including blood pressure monitoring, and providing tailored signposting to services, the team helps identify risks early and improves access to care.

Working in accessible locations such as community events, shopping areas, and local centres, the initiative focuses on prevention, early intervention, and reducing health inequalities—ensuring more people can engage with the support they need, closer to home.

Enhanced Care Home Direct Enhanced Service (DES)

This is a phased programme of work that will bring a multi-disciplinary team approach to the care of patients in nursing homes and residential homes.
This team will include but will not be limited to. Care Home Workers, Integrated Care Team, specialist geriatrician, PCN Clinical Pharmacists as well as GPs

 

Additional Roles Scheme (ARRS)

The Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme entitles PCNs to access funding to support recruitment across reimbursable roles - clinical pharmacists, social prescribing link workers, physician associates, physiotherapists and paramedics. The intention of the scheme is to grow additional capacity through new roles, and to help to solve the workforce shortage in general practice.

 

Quality Improvement Direct Enhanced Services

This DES aims to see measurable improvement in the quality of care and patient experience at a national level against specific modules. The focus of the indicators and associated points is on contractor engagement and participation in the quality improvement activity both in the practice and through sharing of learning across their network. These QI’s will change annually. For 2020/21 they are Early Diagnosis of Cancer & Supporting people with learning disability.

 

Extended Hours Access

A PCN must provide extended hours access in the form of additional clinical appointments in accordance with this Network Contract DES Specification regardless of whether any practices within the PCN are providing any CCG commissioned extended access services in 2020/21