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This week, Ben is joined by Dr Jane Harvey, GP and Clinical Director of Healthy Hyde PCN in Greater Manchester, to explore how eight practices have come together to deliver proactive, community-centred care.

Jane explains how the PCN has developed services around the needs of its local population, from proactive care for care home residents and people living with dementia to urgent action clinics, learning disability support, social prescribing and wellbeing services for refugees, children and other disadvantaged groups.

The conversation explores the challenges of measuring the value of preventative care when savings benefit the wider health system rather than the PCN itself.

What does Healthy Hyde PCN look like, and who does it serve? (00:25)

How did the PCN develop its focus on prevention and proactive care? (01:25)

How does working across a larger population create opportunities for proactive care? (03:39)

How has the PCN expanded its services for people with dementia, learning disabilities and urgent care needs? (04:50)

How does Healthy Hyde support wider determinants of health and community wellbeing? (06:15)

How does the PCN identify what services its population needs? (07:44)

What impact has preventative care had on hospital admissions and A&E attendances? (10:19)

Why is it so difficult for PCNs to sustain services that benefit the wider system? (11:33)

What is stopping integrated neighbourhood working from becoming a reality? (13:28)

How has Jane kept the PCN’s community-centred approach going? (14:36)

What needs to change to make integrated neighbourhoods work? (16:43)

Could enhanced PCNs provide a stronger foundation for neighbourhood working? (18:16)

How can PCNs balance proactive community services with the pressure on core general practice? (21:04)

Where can listeners find out more about Healthy Hyde PCN? (22:08)

Visit the Healthy Hyde website here, and access the Healthy Hyde Annual Report for 2026 here.

Contact Jane via email here.

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