Primary Care Networks

In this short Video Ruth outlines expectations for the sixth year following the nationally mandated DES, including greater flexibility being passed to PCNs, increase in locally commissioned services, and effects brought by changes in the procurement act legalisation.

Here Ruth considers possible changes to the NHS Model brought on by the next general election, and what this might mean for PCNs if there is to be another NHS restructure.

In this video Ruth Griffiths forms an overview of current trends across PCNs, from moving towards a more commercial approach, merges to serve a larger population, and the creation of PCN Limiteds to expand the services being delivered.

In this short video Ruth urges PCNs to consider incorporating to create a PCN Limited in the final year of DES, explaining how it places them in the best possible position when demonstrating to the commissioner, the capabilities and infrastructure required to take on contracts and services. 

A PCN Limited will only enact in a way that best serves its members. Here Ruth emphasises how in creating a PCN Limited, all operational, strategic, and financial positions of the member practices should be supported. 

In this short Video Ruth navigates the logistics of PCN Limited memberships. Explaining the additional complexities and costs implicated if not all PCN practices are members. 

Here Ruth details the logistics of practice service delivery when operating as a limited company model.  

In this short video Ruth guides us through the how the specific requirements and functional operations of a PCN Limited vehicle, might influence their decisions as whether to register under the CQC. 

A common misconception is that the PCN Limited vehicle replaces the unincorporated PCN tier, here Ruth explains why this is not the case. 

In this short video Ruth explores the possibilities and new opportunities brough forward by incorporating into a PCN Limited, detailing how a Limited vehicle can make these contracting models cleaner and more attractive to a commissioner. 

Here Ruth provides us with her top tip for PCNs as we head into the sixth year of the DES. 

In this video, health real estate Rebecca Wakefield answers the frequently asked question Can PCNs hold a Lease? She considers the position of incorporated PCNs and the support that unincorporated PCNs will need from a member practice. 

In this short video our healthcare employment specialist Amy Milson discusses incorporated PCN’s access to the NHS pension scheme, offering insight to the main routes: Independent Provider and both open and closed direction determination. 

From a legal perspective, when a PCN Limited is created there is deemed to be a TUPE transfer under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006. Here Amy details the certain obligations to consultation of staff under TUPE. 

When a PCN Limited is created there can be various sets of terms and conditions, policies, and procedures from the incorporated PCNs. In this video Amy guides us through several ways of addressing these 
logistical and managerial challenges.