Our Customers Say
“The Care Workers are very friendly and helpful. I suffer from a mental illness, and they are very understanding. This I find comforting, as it is unusual for someone not trained in mental health conditions.”
Service User, Stoke
Primary Care Services
Primecare
We are one of the leading commercial providers of primary health care services in the UK. We work in partnership with organisations to provide a range of effective and efficient health care services.
Our health care services are commissioned by many organisations include NHS trusts, police forces, prisons and other secure establishments, as well as commercial organisations.
Our aim is always to provide the highest quality of care to patients, carers and their families.
For information on our services and to find out how to get in touch, visit our web site here - www.primecare.uk.net.
The services we offer
Urgent care services - We have excellent clinical response and primary care centres that have enabled us to be the highest performing provider of out of hours GP services in the country. We are commissioned by many Primary Care Trusts in England and Local Health Boards in Wales.
We work in partnership with GP practices, A&E departments and NHS Direct to ensure that patients get the right health information and treatment at the right time, working through the night and at weekends. We also support some GP practices with their telephone calls during the day and provide primary care services for patients when their practices are closed for training.
Our highly trained doctors, nurses and care co-ordinators help with around 1.6 million calls from patients every year. In some areas we provide a single point of access for a number of different services including GP out of hours care, emergency social care and dentistry.
NHS Health Centres - We are delighted to be running among the first NHS GP-led walk-in health centres that are open 8am – 8pm, seven days a week. We pride ourselves on offering fast access to convenient health care appointments with excellent teams of clinicians.
We also operate GP practices across the country.
Health care in secure settings - We provide health care services in a number of prisons and other secure settings including immigration centres and secure training centres. We offer the full range of primary care services as well as services to avoid the need to transfer patients to hospital where possible, mental health inreach and Integrated Drug Treatment Systems. Our urgent health care services that provide GP care throughout the night and at weekends and bank holidays also covers prisons in some areas.
Forensic Medical services - Primecare has operated in the police market for the last 10 years, offering quality services to city, rural, large and smaller force areas. We also provide telephone advice services for a range of court based schemes and a Forensic Medical Examiner service for the British Transport Police. Within our Police management and operational teams we have a depth of experience unmatched by other private providers in this field.
NHS dentistry - Primecare is experienced in running a number of NHS dental practices and we are beginning to manage new dental services under the new Dental Access Programme. We also run telephone assessment for patients with emergency dental problems in some parts of the UK.
Occupational Health Services - We provide a range of occupational health services for several employers covering pre-employment medicals, management referrals and travel medicine. We are developing our occupational health offering to provide absence management services.
Primecare Locums - Primecare Locums is a clinical and medical staff agency. We support GP practices, NHS organisations and prisons with staffing support.
Primecare Locums has a range of vacancies for locum work across the country. Visit our dedicated website here – www.primecarelocums.co.uk.