General Practitioner for Canalaside Primary Care Network

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system., As a General Practitioner for the Canalside PCN you will working across 7 practices in the network offering additional appointments for patients.

You will be able to work independently as well as part of a team by increasing availiability for practice appointments.

A Primary Care Network - often shortened as PCN - is a group of GP practices based in a local community.

Typically, its between 5 to 10 GP practices covering patient population of 30,000 to 50,000.

A PCN encourages GP practices within the network to share their expertise and resources, and develop closer partnerships with community health providers, hospitals, mental health trusts, community pharmacy and voluntary organisations.