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.
Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS bringing general practices together to work at scale. Building 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.
Lincoln Healthcare Partnership (LHP) PCN is made up of two practices based in central Lincoln with a patient population of just under 40,000 people. The population of the LHP PCN has a higher percentage of working age adults and includes a high number of Lincoln University students as we run a practice on the University campus site. We have a smaller than average number of older residents and we also manage a number of care homes based in central Lincoln.
Being a city centre PCN with a younger than average population there is a higher level of deprivation and prevalence of mental health than the Lincolnshire average which influences our health care needs and the associated service provision.
Find out more about our patient population (Lincoln Healthcare Partnership, formally Marina PCN, Public Health profile document)