PCN Name: Carlisle Healthcare
Clinical Director: Dr Robert Westgate
Operational Leads: Tracey Darrington and Julie Swan
Network Population: 52,457
Overview of Area: Carlisle Healthcare includes the largest Practice in North Cumbria with just under half the population of urban Carlisle. We have recently opened our new site in South Carlisle on Locke Road, to complement our existing sites at St Paul's in the city centre, and North Carlisle on Eden Street. The PCN also now includes Spencer Street Practice.
Carlisle Healthcare, as a Primary Care Network (PCN), has been able to respond nimbly to the opportunities created by the PCN framework, building primary care capacity by embedding non-traditional roles and staff within the primary care team (e.g. mental health workers, occupational therapists, pharmacists, care co-ordinators, social prescribers, paramedics, physiotherapists and others). We continue to evolve our clinical model to improve patient access aiming to deliver high quality personalised care.
We are firmly committed to supporting the next generation of health professionals through investing in training, mentoring and support, both within our own organisation and working with a number of partner organisations.
