We offer a range of services as a PCN in Redcar, from improving care homes in Redcar to GP practices and more.

Our goal is to support primary care in Redcar, overcoming the difficulties brought about by the pandemic. In fact, our goal is to not just overcome these difficulties, but to help Redcar thrive, with fantastic primary healthcare services that will only improve as time passes.
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Creating opportunities and innovative ways to promote wellbeing, Redcar Coastal PCN is here to improve the standard and variety of care provided to the Redcar and wider Cleveland area, but where do we serve?

Our Locations

Redcar Coastal Primary Care Network is a collaborative project involving the following GP Surgeries:
Bentley Medical Practice, Redcar
Coatham Surgery, Redcar
The Green House Surgery, Redcar
Huntcliff Surgery, Saltburn
Ravenscar Surgery, Redcar
Saltscar Surgery, Redcar
Zetland Medical Practice, Marske
As you can see, we have a wide remit in the Redcar, Marske, and Saltburn area, with each doctor’s surgery and GP practice offering a high level of primary care and unique services to patients.

Our Services

First Contact Practitioner

The specialist physiotherapy services we offer as a PCN start with our First Contact Practitioner (FCP); a physiotherapist working in an extended role to assess and manage patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions.

Social Prescribing Link Workers

Within the PCN, we have a team of Social Prescribing Link Workers available, whose role is take a holistic approach to patient’s health and wellbeing.
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These unique specialists connect people with relevant community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support, which can include anything from counselling referrals to support with homelessness. Help can also be provided for those suffering with feelings of isolation, deteriorating mental health, debt issues, and the impact of COVID.

Social prescribing works for lots of different people, including those with one or more long-term conditions. They’re also beneficial to those needing support with their mental health, and those who may have complex social needs that affect their wellbeing.​​

Adult Mental Health Practitioner

Our Advanced Mental Health Practitioner at Redcar Coastal PCN is Pippa Dunn, who has over 25 years-experience in the NHS. In this time, she’s covered everything from nursing to psychology management, and various other areas of expertise relating to adult mental health.

At Redcar Coastal PCN, Pippa provides additional capacity to the existing practice-based mental health service, and offers a combined consultation, advice, triage, and liaison function. She rectifies inappropriate referrals and duplicate work, which boosts the effectiveness of GP practices and enables patients to get the right treatment at the right time.

Dawn’s patient-focussed role is vast, and covers the following:
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  • Shared decision-making about self-management
  • Facilitating access to treatment services
  • Providing a range of psychological interventions over the telephone, allowing her to speak to more people over a shorter period of time
  • Face to face clients can also be accommodated at the Ravenscar Surgery between Monday and Wednesday, and Huntcliff Surgery in Saltburn on Thursday mornings
  • Discussions with patients’ medication and liaising with GP surgeries of medical prescribers.

​Patients with mental health conditions such as severe anxiety or depression, eating disorders, personality disorders, adult ADHD, PTSD, dual diagnosis, and poor responses to medications or interventions from IAPT can also be treated at Redcar Coastal PCN, as well as those who are in immediate crisis or are having suicidal ideation.

Child & Young Person Mental Health Practitioner

Our Child and Young Persons Mental Health Practitioner (CYP) role is varied when it comes to the mental health of children and younger people.

Dealing with patients between 4 to 18 years old, Linda specialises in helping those experiencing problems that affect their mental health. This can be anything from substance abuse to relationality difficulties, anxieties, worries, and more.
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In her role at Redcar Coastal PCN, she offers advice, signposting, and onward referrals to appropriate services.

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (OT)

Our Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Occupational Therapy runs clinics for patients that are included on the frailty register and over the age of 65. These live well clinics are designed for the over 65s and include home visits for patients who are housebound.
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Within our occupational therapy service, we are also able to offer assessments, support, and referrals to appropriate services.

Get the contraceptive pill straight from your local pharmacy ​

Women in the North East and North Cumbria can now get the contraceptive pill straight from their local pharmacy, without needing a GP appointment.

The new service offers women more choice about where and how they access the contraception.
All pharmacies offer walk-in appointments, with no need to book in advance, and consultations are carried out in private with a trained pharmacist. Pharmacists can help whether someone is starting the pill for the first time or continuing an existing prescription.

A yearly check-up will take place, usually when returning for the next supply.
The service is free and confidential for everyone, including those under 16. Personal information will not be shared unless there is a serious concern for safety or wellbeing.
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You can download the NHS App or find the same services on the NHS website: www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/
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