Our Services

The PCN provide GP and ANP appointments during evenings (18:30-20:30) and weekends (all day on Saturdays) across multiple different locations. These appointments are for patients who are unable to attend during core hours dur to work, childcare or other commitments. For more information regarding these appointments, please contact your practice.

The PCN respiratory service helps to diagnose and manage complex respiratory conditions such as Asthma and COPD. Clinicians use FeNO and Spirometry testing to diagnose patients with respiratory conditions. The service also carry’s out Post Exacerbation Reviews and helps with patients management of rescue packs. Our GP led respiratory clinics provide extra support for the practices most complex respiratory patients.

The PCN helps to provide a Phlebotomy Service for Moreton Group Practice, Moreton Medical Centre any additional phlebotomy sessions that are needed to support ongoing healthcare projects. The PCN also helps practices with Domiciliary Phlebotomy for their housebound patients.

The PCN organises/coordinates the seasonal COVID-19 Vaccination Programme for all 8 of our practices.

The PCN Women’s Health/Respiratory Service offers support to practices for Hormone Therapy, complex Smears, HRT support and Contraceptive Advice.

The Moreton & Meols and Wallasey Wellbeing PCN Ageing Well/Living Better Team is a collaborative project working with the NHS Community Trust to provide proactive and person-centered care for patients with moderate and severe frailty. The team is comprised of a Paramedic, a Community Matron, a Nurse Practitioner for Older People, a Early Intervention Assistant and a Clinical Pharmacist as well as support from many of the other services and organisations we work alongside. The aim of the project is to improve a patient’s quality of life, helping them to stay independent for as long as possible which can reduce the chance of people needing unplanned secondary care/hospital admissions.

Our PCN Paramedics help practices by providing home visits for their housebound and end of life care patients. One of our PCN Paramedics is also one of the key members in the Moreton & Meols / Wallasey Wellbeing PCN Ageing Well, Living Better Frailty Team which aims to help provide personalised care for our most frail and vulnerable patients.

Our PCN Diabetic Specialist Nurse helps to manage more complex patients with poorly controlled diabetes.

Our PCN Mental Health Practitioners support vulnerable patients with their everyday mental wellbeing. They help to manage patients with psychosis, bipolar disorder, ‘personality disorder’, eating disorders, severe depression and refer patients for diagnoses of autism and ADHD. Often poor mental health co-exists with other conditions such as frailty, cognitive impairment, neurodevelopmental conditions or substance abuse.

Our PCN Learning Disability Coordinator service aims to reduce the health inequalities faced by people with a learning disability.

This includes training and advising practices regarding the quality of Annual Health Checks, education for patients and their carers as well as practice staff. It also involves supporting individual patients as and when required and supporting colleagues to ensure all practice processes are adapted to meet the needs of our learning disability patients.

The PCN offers an Ear Irrigation Service to all practices. Ear syringing is a medical procedure that injects a water stream into the ear canal to remove any excessive ear wax or any foreign materials.

The PCN Leap Review Clinic helps to manage patients with ADHD who have been discharged from secondary care back into primary care/their GP surgery for monitoring and medication reviews.

We have 2x clinical pharmacists and 2 x pharmacy technicians, who provide 5 days a week cover for our PCN.

How can Clinical Pharmacists support patients?

• DOAC Reviews
• Medication reviews
• Compliance issues
• Hospital Discharges

We know that many of life’s problems can make us feel unwell. Improving your lifestyle or taking control of a practical problem can be very challenging and people often feel daunted at the prospect of change and don’t always know where to start.

Social prescribing link workers help give you the confidence, encouragement and support you need to make and sustain changes that will help you to feel better in yourself.

Our Social Prescribing Link Workers are here to help and support you to look after your health and wellbeing.

Watch the video below for more details about Social Prescribing:

Health and wellbeing coaches (HWBCs) predominantly use health coaching & motivational skills to support people with lower levels of patient activation to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become active participants in their own healthcare so that they can reach their self-identified health and wellbeing goals.

This personalised support is delivered through multiple sessions, increasing patient activation levels and empowering them to identify and implement lifestyle changes and self-management approaches to managing existing conditions or prevention of long-term physical and emotional health conditions.

The HWBC will work in partnership with multidisciplinary teams including the GP’s, Social Prescribing and Care Coordinators Teams to holistically support patients’ wider health & wellbeing.

Watch the video below to hear some Wirral health coaches answer questions about the role:

We run a PCN Weight Management Group over a 7 week period. There is only one overarching aim, to achieve a calorie deficit. How you achieve this calorie deficit is up to the person, and the course adopts a personalised approach. It is not a diet nor a fad, it is about creating broader lifestyle changes that work for the person and deliver much more than just weight loss.

The walking group runs every Wednesday meeting over the road from Moreton Methodist Church, all abilities are welcome. Patients do not need to book or be referred to attend they are asked to just turn up.

Please note there is a Facebook page with specific updates regarding the walking group (4) Moreton and Meols PCN Walking Group | Moreton | Facebook 

What is 1^st contact physiotherapy?

The vast majority of musculoskeletal first contact practitioners are physiotherapists with enhanced skills. They can help patients with musculoskeletal issues such as back, neck and joint pain by:

Musculoskeletal problems seen by an FCP:

• All soft tissue injuries, sprains, strains or sports injuries
• Arthritis
• Problems with muscles, ligaments, tendons or bones, e.g. tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ankle sprains
• Spinal problems including lower back, mid-back and neck pain
• Spinal-related pain in arms or legs, including nerve symptoms, e.g. pins and needles or numbness
• Post-orthopaedic surgery (may differ between localities)
• Any acute (new/severe) or chronic (long standing) musculoskeletal issue

For more information on our 1st Contact Physiotherapy service or to book an appointment, please contact your practice.