Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group have announced that GP surgeries across the county will be grouped together as part of Primary Care Networks (PCN) which launched on Monday.

In order to cope with increased workload and increased demand on the services – surgeries will now combine resources to become a ‘team within a team’.

In total, 12 PCN’s have been set up across the county.

1. Mid Chiltern (Amersham and Chesham): Rectory Meadow Surgery, Amersham Health Centre, John Hampden Surgery, Hughenden Valley Surgery, The Practice Prospect House

2. Chesham & Little Chalfont (Amersham and Chesham): The New Surgery, Watermeadow Surgery, Gladstone Surgery, Little Chalfont Surgery

3. Maple (Aylesbury Vale Central): Oakfield Surgery, The Mandeville Practice, Poplar Grove Surgery

4. BMW (Aylesbury Vale Central): Meadowcroft Surgery, Whitehill Surgery, Berryfields Medical Centre

5. Westongrove (Aylesbury Vale Central): Westongrove Partnership, which already includes Aston Clinton Surgery, Bedgrove Surgery and Wendover Health Centre

6. Aylesbury North: The Swan Practice, Whitchurch Surgery, Norden House Surgery, Ashcroft Surgery, Waddesdon Surgery, Wing Surgery, Edlesborough Surgery

7. AVS (Aylesbury Vale South): Cross Keys Surgery, Haddenham Medical Centre, Unity Health

8. South Bucks: Iver Medical Centre, Threeways Surgery, Burnham Health Centre, Southmead Surgery, Denham Medical Centre

9. The Chalfonts (Southern): The Hall Practice, The Misbourne Surgery, Calcot Medical Centre

10. Arc (Wooburn Green): Millbarn Medical Centre, Highfield Surgery, The Marlow Medical Group, Cherrymead Surgery, The Simpson Centre, Bourne End & Wooburn Green Medical Centre

11. Dashwood (Wycombe): Chiltern House Medical Centre, Wye Valley Surgery, The Riverside Surgery, Carrington House Surgery, Stokenchurch Medical Centre, Cressex Health Centre

12. Swan (Wycombe): Tower House Surgery, Desborough Surgery, Kingswood Surgery, Priory Avenue Surgery Bucks.

Each of the new networks will typically care for between 30 – 50,000 patients. All of the practices which are grouped together will be located near one another and together will get a significant increase in investment for new staff.

Over the course of the next three years, Bucks CCG have said they hope to add new roles to certain practices, such as paramedics, physiotherapists, clinical pharmacists, physician associates and social prescribers.

The service also hopes that the formation of the new PCN’s will attract more GPs to work in the local; area and provide patients with the chance to have certain illnesses treated at a surgery, rather than being treated at hospital.