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Primary Care Networks (PCN) Knares Medical Practice is working together with practices in West Basildon PCN to improve patients quality of care.

Primary care networks were introduced in January 2019, which gave the opportunity for GP practices to join networks each with between 30,000 and 50,000 patients.

The Knares Medical Practice is in West Basildon PCN (WBPCN) made up of five practices in Basildon with a population of approximately 50,000 patients.

ln order to support Practices, Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) was established, to provide a multi-disciplinary teams to provide more integrated health and social care services locally. The patients are able to benefit from the following roles of healthcare providers-

Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Social Prescribing Link Worker, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Care Coordinator, Physician Associate, First Contact Physiotherapist, Dietician, Podiatrist, Occupational Therapist, Trainee Nursing Associate, Paramedics, Advanced Practitioner and Advanced Mental Health Practitioner.

With these additional workforce, The Knares Medical Practice will be able to book patients onto those additional roles, to enable the GPs and and Nurses to devote more time to other quality of services framework.

To OPT out of sharing data please sign into yourdatamatters@nhs.net you must have your NHS number to be able to do this.

 

For NEW Registration to register with a GP you can download a GMS1 registration form required for this on  www.gov.uk/government/publications/gms1 and bring or send to the surgery.

The practice has 21% sign up of online services have you signed up yet?

Registering exceptions

We are currently accepting NEW patients

How to register

diary_and_penWe will accept new patients in immediate surrounding area. You can register by completing a registration form which can be requested at our reception OR you can download a GMS1 registration form on www.gov.uk/government/publications/gms1 , complete the form to register with a GP, print and fill in the form and return it to the practice. When you register, we will ask you to make an appointment to see either the practice nurse (assistant practitioner/healthcare assistant) for a new patient health check. This will make sure that our records are accurate and all routine checks to promote your health and wellbeing (such as blood pressure/smear tests/mammograms) are up-to-date.

Instructions on what to do with the registration form 

Please bring the completed form along to reception with your medical card if you have it. The information on the medical card will speed up the process of getting your records from your previous practice. Once you have been accepted as a patient your medical records will be transferred to us and a new medical card will be sent to your home address. You do not need to inform your existing practice that you are moving, although it may be courteous to do so.

Catchment Area

We take patients in our catchment area and the immediate surrounding areas of the practice. NB..If you complete a registration online, you will still be required to call to the surgery with your ID and signature.

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