- Barton House Group Practice
- Barretts Grove Surgery
- Brooke Road Surgery
- Somerford Grove Practice (You are here)
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Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are a key part of the NHS Long Term Plan. They provide the structure and funding for services to be developed locally, in response to the needs of the patients they serve. PCNs will help to join up services at a local level, focusing on the specific needs of these local populations, with patients still accessing routine GP appointments as they do now.
35,610 people are registered at one of four GP practices in Clissold Park. Four of the GP practices within City and Hackney have joined together to form the Clissold Park Primary Care Network. They are; Somerford Grove Practice, Brooke Road Surgery, Barton House Group Practice, Barretts Gove Surgery.
Clissold Park is one of City and Hackney’s most diverse Neighbourhoods with the largest populations by ethnicity being White (59%), Black (20%) and Asian (10%).
Clissold Park has a similar overall population to the City & Hackney. By being part of the PCN we have been enabled to devise and develop services that are tailored to the needs of our patient community. Our aim is that this will help to give you, our patients, better access to the right care and support, at the right time.
Our surgery teams are working closely with each other, enjoying the ability to share expertise and resources, to develop new services. Of the 35,610 people, the majority of patients are registered at Barton House and Somerford Grove GP Practices.
Our Vision “is to improve the quality of life for everyone who lives and works in the borough in alignment with the need of our patient population and by building one City & Hackney.”
PCN Clinical Director: Dr Neeraj Prasad & Dr Nikhil Katiyar
PCN Clinical Inequality Lead: Dr Shaine Mehta
PCN Development Manager: Saima Sultana
PCN Coordinator: Vanessa Vella
We also have Clinical Pharmacist, First Contact Physiotherapist, Dietitian, Social Prescribing Link Workers, Health and WellBeing Practitioner and Mental Health Occupational Therapist supporting patients within Clissold Park Primary Care Network.
Marianne Bolton
Neil McCreanor
Nathalie Vesali-Anderson
Latifah Swamad
Laurenda Wegbe
Kwan Wai Liu
Grazielle Nyarkoh
Ayesha Akram
Clinical pharmacists work in primary care as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
Taking responsibility for patients with chronic diseases and undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially for the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
The team deliver the Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) for high-risk groups. A focus for our PCN has been on complex polypharmacy and potentially addictive pain medication management.
Benefits
Neil McCreanor
Dietitians are healthcare professionals that diagnose and treat diet and nutritional problems.
They offer dietary management advice for short- and long-term conditions including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension etc.
They support changes to food intake to address diabetes, food allergies, gastroenterologist conditions,coeliac disease, and metabolic diseases.
Dietary, lifestyle and medication modification can result in less medicine management for chronic conditions.They are trained in behaviour modification methods and motivational interviewing to enable patients to self-manage their conditions.
Benefits
Brent O'Connor
First Contact Practitioners (FCP) are qualified autonomous clinical practitioners who can assess, diagnose, treat, and manage musculoskeletal (MSK) problems and undifferentiated conditions and, where appropriate, discharge a person without a medical referral.
FCPs working in this role can be accessed directly by patients, or staff in GP practices can refer patients to them to establish a rapid and accurate diagnosis and management plan to streamline pathways of care.
Benefits
Muhammad Abu Hasnath
Rebecca Young
Carys Evans
Link workers give people time and focus on what matters to the person as identified in their care and support plan. They connect people to community groups and agencies for practical and emotional support. Link workers typically work with people over 6-12 contacts over a 3-month period with a typical caseload of 200-250 people depending on the complexity of peoples needs.
Benefits
Lorraine McCarthy
Health coaching is a series of person-centred conversations which focus on helping someone develop strategies for self managing their nonclinical health needs and to implement their personalised health and care plan. Focus is on patients with lower patient activation levels.
Benefits
Natasha Middleton
The MH practitioner role will be employed and provided in collaboration with our community mental health provider ELFT and imbedded in the PCN.
The PCN will be able to define the scope of the role and profession required. Options include Counsellor, Clinical associate in Psychology, Psychologist, Psychiatric Nurse or MH OT.
The role could support several functions:
PCN have the opportunity to look at where help is needed in practices in choosing the type of role to employ.