Your Primary Care Network

 

A Primary Care Network, often shortened as PCN, is a group of GP Practices based in a local community who work together to deliver improved services for their patients.

By working in a collaboration, practices are able to look at the community’s health needs and offer more coordinated and accessible care, working towards improved health outcomes.

Your PCN is ‘Lancing & Sompting Community Health’ and is made up of 3 surgeries and wider partners:

Our surgery teams are working closely together with each other which enables us to share our expertise and resources.

Our PCN now has many additional team members who work between the practices including:

First Community Practitioners, Mental Health Social Prescribers, Patient Care Coordinators, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Social Prescribers. 

Meet Our Team here

While needing to work within our means, we hope that with collaboration and innovation we can build on the quality and accessibility of our healthcare. We aim to empower individuals and the community to make the most of their health, and the services available. 

Each GP Surgery in our Primary Care Network is represented on our PCN Board. We draw on data from wide sources, along with feedback from our patients and our own experiences to agree new initiatives and work towards improvement goals and new projects. We are led by our Clinical and PCN strategy that includes estates and is linked to the NHSE plan for primary care. 

We value the knowledge and experience of others and are working together with individuals and organisations to enhance our collective ways of working. 

This includes working closely with other partners within our Local Community Network:

  • The Community Nursing and Proactive Care Teams, 
  • Wellbeing teams and others within Adur District Council
  • Lancing Parish Council
  • MIND
  • Community Works supporting voluntary organisations including Sustainable Sussex and Electric Storm Youth 
  • Local Schools
  • Neighbouring PCNs

We have recently worked with the “Lancing: Now and into the Future” project.  

Volunteers who supported our Covid Vaccination Service have been an integral and important part of our team for the last few years including acting as a voice on behalf of the patients, making suggestions for positive changes and for us to improve our services.

We always welcome feedback and the collaborative support of our community, local businesses, schools and community groups. 

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