Pulse PCN, our sister title, launches its new website today, focused on news for primary care networks.
The new site will cover news, views, insight, roundtables and reports on topics relevant to PCN clinical directors, managers and additional roles staff as it moves from being hosted by the PulseToday site.
Wider network staff will now be able to access the site including those employed through the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS), such as nurses, pharmacists and social prescribing link workers.
It also includes articles from new columnists, such as Charlotte Osborn-Forde, CEO of the National Academy for Social Prescribing, and frontline ARRS staff who will write about their experiences working in primary care.
They will join the title’s existing expert columnists: PCN clinical director Dr Sian Stanley, Professor Aruna Garcea, chair of the NHS Confederation’s PCN advisory group, consultant Ben Gowland and management expert Tara Humphrey.
The website will continue to feature quarterly roundtables, where four to six clinical directors discuss core issues faced by PCNs, as well as a range of interviews, ‘how to’ case study pieces from PCNs around the country and analysis on the latest news.
Pulse PCN editor Victoria Vaughan said: ‘Pulse PCN having its own dedicated site means we are better able to cater to the network community – which continues to grow as more roles are added to the controversial additional roles scheme.
‘While NHS England is set to be abolished the push for a neighbourhood health service continues. PCNs are already established in neighbourhoods across England and more than 37,000 staff are now in primary care networks, placing them in pole position when it comes to leading this agenda. Pulse PCN will cover the developments in this evolving situation.
‘We will also continue to cater to this innovative tranche of network leaders, kicking off with a feature on pay and a roundtable on the PCN role in neighbourhood health coming soon.’
Launched in April 2021 as a quarterly supplement to Pulse, Pulse PCN it is the only brand dedicated to primary care networks and is supported by Pulse.
Pulse editor Sofia Lind said: ‘This is an exciting day for Pulse PCN and the wide variety of primary care professionals the title caters to. The new standalone site is a testament to the strength of the brand, with Pulse PCN having become an essential source of news and insights for PCN leaders.’
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