Aspatria Medical Group, based in the Health Centre on West Street, opened in December 2006 to serve the population of Aspatria and surrounding villages.
The Practice has been training Registrars (Doctors preparing to become GP’s) from the Cumbria GP Training scheme for many years.
The Practice offers a full range of services on site including; Minor Injuries, Joint Injections, Minor Surgery, Contraceptive Implants and Coils, STI checks.
We also have Community Midwife access, First Step counselling, Dietetics, Social Prescribing, Mental Health Worker, First Contact Physio, Pharmacist and Retinal Screening Service all offering appointments on site.
Primary Care Network
What is a Primary Care Network?
Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown and people are living longer. Many people are living with long term conditions such as diabetes and heart disease or suffer with mental health issues and may need to access their local health services more often.
To meet these needs, GP practices are working together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in groups of practices known as primary care networks (PCNs).
PCNs build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home.
Each PCN across England is based on GP’s registered patient lists, typically serving natural communities of between 30,000 to 50,000 people. They are small enough to provide the personal care valued by both people and GPs, but large enough to have impact and economies of scale through better collaboration between GP practices and others in the local health and social care system.
PCNs are led by clinical directors who may be a GP, general practice nurse, clinical pharmacist or other clinical profession working in general practice.
Keswick & Solway Primary Care Network
Our PCN consists of Practices from: Aspatria, Caldbeck, Dalston, Keswick, Kirkbride, Silloth & Wigton and we are known as Keswick & Solway Primary Care Network.
Our clinical director is Dr Richard Massey
Our Operations Manager is Catherine Penrice
