Our Services

The RUOK campaign aims to raise awareness of a range of mental health support available to children and young people in Dorset, including 24/7 crisis support, NHS Services and support from local charities.

Learn more by visiting our Children & Young People Services page

We are excited to share that Purbeck PCN are working in collaboration with University Hospital Dorset and the British Heart Foundation.

We will be taking part in a project to improve the cholesterol levels of patients who have had a heart attack and discharged from hospital.

The aim is to reduce the risk of developing another heart attack within 12 months of discharge.

This innovative service is called 'Secondary prevention lipid clinic' and will be run from Swanage Hospital on alternative Wednesdays.

GPs will refer patients who have high cholesterol and are eligible to be seen by the team.  They will review patient information and arrange a review or appointment with patients directly.

During the appointment they will review possible medication changes or may discuss the newer injectable lipid/cholesterol lowering agents.

Read Nurse-led Clinic to reduce cholesterol levels achieves international recognition and £350,000 funding boost

Purbeck PCN Surgeries are working together with Healthy.io to offer a home self-test for kidney disease.

The service is for patients with diabetes to make ACR urine testing easier and more convenient. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects 1 in 10 adults in the UK. The most common causes of CKD are diabetes and high blood pressure. Patients due an ACR test will receive an SMS message from Healthy.io. They can choose to accept or decline being contacted by Healthy.io.

Further information can be found on the Mindful Kidney website

Apps present a fantastic opportunity to provide us with valuable health information which can help us not only improve the quality of our healthcare, but also help us to live healthier lives.

The market is awash with apps, and we have no ability to see whether what is being downloaded will actually improve our health or if our personal data will be stored safely.

For that reason, NHS Dorset have partnered up with ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications) to provide this site for you all to solve just those problems.

• Digital Services can Empower you to manage and improve your health. Health Care Apps give you a different approach via self-management information for health, care and wellbeing. 
• Orcha has a large selection of Health Apps to choose from, tailored to your individual health needs and platform operation system.
• It reviews around 500 apps every month, including automatic re-reviews of apps when they are updated.
• It is free to browse and use, with many apps available for free download.
• You can feel confident that any Health and Wellbeing app you download, has been thoroughly tested and scored by ORCHA for your peace of mind.
• Your Digital Lead has access to the library and, by using their professional licence, is able to recommend apps directly to you.

Find information and access to apps on the ORCHA website

If you’re a patient at one of our practices, you can use the NHS App to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet. It doesn’t replace existing services. 

You can still contact us in the usual ways. But once you have verified your identity in the app, you will have easy, 24/7 access to a growing range of health services and information.

Learn more on our NHS App Support page

The aims of the EHCH team is to work collaboratively with the aligned care home GPs and various multidisciplinary teams (MDT) in order to provide person centred, holistic and proactive healthcare and support to care home residents, their carers and care home staff (residential and nursing homes).

We aim to improve communication channels between health and social care providers and the care homes, have regular MDT meetings and as this team evolves we hope to be able to provide a single point of contact service for care home staff and MDT members in order to streamline and provide efficient and timely intervention for care home residents, with this being offered equally across all Purbeck care homes.

The team will work together with the wider MDT and the care homes to develop personalised care plans and ensure pertinent information is shared with the relevant parties.

A first contact physiotherapist (FCP) is an experienced physiotherapist who has the advanced skills necessary to assess, diagnose and recommend appropriate treatment or referral for musculoskeletal services (MSK). Patients will now be able to contact their local physiotherapist directly at one of our surgeries, rather than waiting to see a GP or being referred to hospital.

Patients can see our physiotherapist by speaking to their GP practice receptionist or by being referred by their GP. By making it easier for patients to access physiotherapist, patients will have quicker access to diagnosis and treatment, helping them to manage their conditions more effectively and recover faster, so they can get back to normal life quickly.

Learn more about our First-Contact Physiotherapy Services

Our specialist nurses support children and families from pregnancy to early childhood and into the school years. Providing antenatal visits, child development checks and parenting support.

Mental health is about how we behave, think and feel. One in four people in the UK have a mental health problem at some point in their lives, which affects their daily life, relationships or physical health.

See our Mental Health Page for Support

A Clinical Pharmacist has all the equivalent training needed by a pharmacist you might see in a chemist but they have developed extra skills and undergone further training to enable them to work in Primary Care and help you manage your medicines and health better. This is a relatively new role to our practices so we are working together to help shape the service that will benefit everyone.

Learn more about our Pharmacy Services

We aim to provide expert, individualised holistic Respiratory care to the population of Purbeck. This includes long term management, advice on daily life and challenges with respiratory disease, in addition to carrying out Spirometry and FeNO testing to enable our GPs to diagnose patients. The team provide services for all the GP Practices in Purbeck, working from Wareham and Swanage community hospitals ensuring that care is provided close to home and accessible. Patients can be referred to the team by any health care professional at their GP practice.

Learn more about Respiratory Service

A Social Prescribing Link Worker can help PCNs to strengthen community and personal resilience and reduce health and wellbeing inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. This service is particularly helpful for people with long term conditions (Inc. mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.

Learn more about our Social Prescribing and Wellbeing Services