Update January 2021:

• Debbie Powell joined the team in November last year and is working as a Care Coordinator.  Her main focus is on working with Nursing and Care homes to ensure residents have care plans in place which make their views about their care known to all parts of the NHS.
• The PCN is taking a central role in coordinating and delivering COVID-19 Vaccinations for our local population. We took our first delivery of vaccine on 21/12/20 and we vaccinated over 1000 people at our vaccination centre at Milford on Sea War Memorial Hospital before Christmas. We have also vaccinated over 500 people in Nursing and Residential Homes. You can read more about our vaccination programme here.
• We are now on Twitter. Click on the icon below to follow us for the latest updates on the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.

Update October 2020:

We have had a busy few months and have some fantastic developments to tell you about:

• Carol Canning (care coordinator) and Rebecca Coeztee (health & wellbeing coach) have joined the team from September 2020.  Carol will be focusing on improving the care of people in nursing and residential homes.  Rebecca will be working with Lee (our social prescriber) to signpost people to local activities. They are both working part-time.
  
• Trupti Gardner is an experienced Podiatrist who has joined our network team from October 2020.  She will be working across the practices seeing people with all sorts of foot problems.  She will be especially focussed on helping improve the care of people with Diabetes.
• The network has contracted the services of First Point Physio starting from October 2020. They will be providing appointments on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays across the network.  They are able to refer for Xrays and to the hospital clinics if necessary. Due to COVID they will be providing telephone consultations initially but will bring some poeple in afterwards if needed.
• Pharmacy technition Leah Priestley will be joining the team in November 2020 and will work accross all practices with the support of our pharmacist Pete.  She will help ensure you recieve the correct medications and will also be looking  to reduce medication waste.
  
• The team will be expanding further in the near future.

Network Team

Management Team:

Social Prescribing & Wellbeing Team:

Care Coordination Team:

Medicines Team:

Musculoskeletal/Podiatry Team:

About our Network:

New Forest Primary Care Network is a collaborative project involving the following GP Surgeries:

• Lyndhurst Surgery
• New Forest Medical Group (Brockenhurst & Sway) - non-core practice
• Chawton House Surgery (Lymington)
• Wistaria and Milford Surgeries (Lymington & Milford on Sea)

If you are a patient at one of these surgeries then you live within the New Forest Primary Care Network and can benefit from the services on offer which will hopefully develop even further in the future.