Jess Hacker

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are considering whether to recommend primary care networks (PCNs) switch patients with atrial fibrillation from edoxaban onto apixaban.

General practice is moving to the high street, with PCNs chasing high footfall and proactively engaging with their community. Could this be a trend which provides a solution to both increasing access and a lack of estates while revitalising the high street? Jess Hacker reports.

Nigel Edwards, chair of the National Centre for Rural Health and Care (NCRHC), and former chief executive at the Nuffield Trust, speaks with senior reporter Jess Hacker about the progress of rural PCNs and their future in 2025.

Dr Tracey Vell, medical executive lead for primary care at NHS Greater Manchester discusses the area’s financial deficit

NHS England is to review its commissioning recommendations for cardiovascular disease (CVD) after a cheaper direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) has appeared on the market, Pulse PCN understands.

PCNs were urged to hire a health inequality lead to fill the public health ‘skill gap’ in primary care by Manchester’s chief medical officer.

fully digital formatPulse PCN will move to a fully digital format after publishing its last print issue this winter.The brand will continue to serve the clinical director community with news, interviews, insight and features through its twice weekly newsletters and a new microsite, accessed via the Pulse website, which is launching soon.

Pulse PCN will move to a fully digital format after publishing its last print issue this winter.

NHS England and the Government must provide ‘adequate funding and staffing’ to expand and improve mental health services in primary care, the Centre for Mental Health has said.

Exclusive Less than half (47%) of transgender people believe their GP meets their needs, compared to 61% of cisgender people, a survey has found.

Exclusive: Two LMCs have submitted a no-confidence vote to an ICB among concerns they are could be forcing GPs into a salaried contract.

An integrated care board (ICB) has launched an ad campaign to improve patients’ understanding of additional roles in general practice.

All seven PCNs in the London Borough of Barnet are registered to refer their patients to receive food bank support, Pulse PCN has learnt.

A PCN in Cumbria will implement an app that talks to patients to improve management of their long-term conditions, including asthma, type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

Pulse PCN analyses how primary care networks are responding to the Fuller Stocktake mandate to build integrated neighbourhood teams

NHS England’s decision to scrap the two-week wait target for cancer referrals will not affect any timescales for cancer-related IIF indicators, it has been confirmed.

Dr Laura Mount, clinical director for Central and West Warrington PCN and newly appointed editorial board member for Pulse PCN, reflects on her time running a PCN and looks to the next year of the Network DES with senior reporter Jess Hacker.Looking at the next 12 months, what are you most concerned about for PCNs?The main concern is what happens after the 31 March next year. While it is really challenging to coordinate and run a PCN, manage staff, manage budgets, it’s even harder not knowing wh…

PCNs should audit their surgeries’ websites in a bid to address digital exclusion among their patients, NHS England has suggested.

Clinical directors have responded to the BMA call for networks to be scrapped with all PCN DES monies to pooled into one funding stream.PCN leaders say that achieving primary care at scale without networks is ‘unrealistic’ and they urge the BMA to look at ‘what is working well and build on it rather than ask for the system to yet again be rearranged’.

NHS Confed chair Lord Victor Adebowale responds to Pulse PCN’s questions on health inequalities