Working collaboratively, at scale to flourish and build resilience to ensure we continue to develop and deliver the best healthcare services to our local population.
West Leeds PCN & the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag (RADF)
WLPCN are a fast follower of the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag. For more information on reasonable adjustments please go to our patient resources page: https://www.westleedspcn.co.uk/patient-resources/
Remote Monitoring Pilot
Over the past year, we have been part of a Pilot Project regarding helping to empower patients to be able to monitor their health from home.
The Staff involved in this project have recently been mentioned in a Healthcare Journal recongising the work we have doing Piloting this for Leeds. You can read all about the work we have been doing on Page 41!
Changes to the weekend hub service at The Gables Surgery
From the 1st January 2024, West Leeds Primary Care Network will takeover the Enhanced Access service that currently runs from The Gables Surgery on a Saturday and Sunday.
As part of reviewing our services to patients, we are making some changes to the weekend service. We will be extending our busy Saturday service from 1pm to 5pm and ceasing the Sunday service which is less utilised.
New Hours from 1st January
Saturday 8.00 – 17.00
Sunday – CLOSED
Have a read!
Our very own, Ewa Pickersgill, has had an article published on the Nursing in practice website. Have a read about Ewa’s take on working with the frail population in a Primary Care Network. Working with a frail population as a Primary Care Network | Nursing in Practice
West Leeds PCN are currently testing the usage of an AI tool called Heidi, an AI powered medical scribe to allow our clinicians to focus more on you and your concerns during an appointment.
For more info on what this tool is and how it affects your healthcare, please see the link to our page with details on what the tool is, how it will be used and of your rights as a patient.
A message from our Business Partner & PCN Lead Practice Manager
The past year within West Leeds PCN has seen all the practices continue to work closely together to achieve our PCN contracts, building on cohesive relationships that began back in 2019. We are constantly looking for opportunities to support practices and have established PCN led NHS Health Check clinics, Learning Disability Health Check Clinics and annual reviews in care homes. We have continued to prioritise practice resilience at the same time as the highest quality holistic patient care and have put many steps in place to realise this. Our in house Booking and Administration team diverts telephone contact and repetitive administrative tasks from practices, centralising this function within the PCN. We have also given serious consideration to the precarious nature of practice funding streams and as a result we have been able to devolve some elements of PCN funding back down to practices where an internal Resilience and Collaboration agreement is in place.
We are fiercely proud of what we have achieved for our community in West Leeds and in particular of the ethical and proactive way in which we have conducted ourselves. West Leeds PCN is a dynamic and effective organisation that will always do what is does “because it is the right thing to do”
Alison Stewart
Business Partner & PCN Lead Practice Manager
Page last reviewed: 13 May 2025