Our Care Home Lead Co-ordinator continues to support the delivery of the Enhanced Health in Care Homes contract. With our Dietetic Assistant Practitioner and PCN Dietitian providing nutritional advice to homes and leading training sessions with home baked goodies,this has been a great success. 

The PCN has continued to provide covid vaccinations throughout the autumn and spring to its population at the practice sites and at Earl Mortimer School in Leominster. 

Working in collaboration with the clinical lead at Tenbury, our Health and Wellbeing Coach and Senior Social Prescriber have delivered group sessions for patients who have recently been diagnosed with Stage 1 Hypertension. These are six week sessions, providing advice on their condition, nutrition and exercise with support from Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire, our PCN Dietitian and the community assets within Tenbury. 

Our PCN Dietitian and Dietetic Assistant Practitioner have supported the Integrated Care Board's Medicines Team in reviewing the Prescribing Guidelines for Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) for adults. They have also provided training to Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Pharmacy Teams on inappropriate prescribing to support driving down costs, whilst improving patient care through continuous improvement. 

The PCN's home visiting Paramedics provide additional resilience to our practices by delivering on the day visits where a GP would ordinarily attend and also provide continuity of care to some of our most vulnerable patients.