Neighbourhood Profile

Why this page: when patients can’t get a routine GP appointment — the 8am scramble — demand doesn’t disappear, it moves. It surfaces downstream as NHS 111 calls routed back to primary care, and as walk-in (Type 3) A&E attendances at UTCs, MIUs and walk-in centres. Reading GP access pressure alongside those urgent-care substitution signals is the point of this view.

How to read it: the KPI tiles show the latest month for each measure at its honest grain. The relational trend pairs this PCN’s GP demand with the region’s 111→primary-care share and England’s A&E Type 3 share, indexed so they move on one scale.

Grain & methodology: A&E Type 3 share is ENGLAND-level only (the A&E source is provider/trust grain with no ICB/region link, so it is never attributed below England). For local context the nearest acute trusts serving this scope are shown with their own Type-3 share, chosen by straight-line distance — a GEOGRAPHIC PROXY for who serves the neighbourhood (we hold no patient-flow / HES attendance-by-residence data), not an attribution. The 111→primary-care share is the patient’s NHS REGION (resolved from this PCN’s practices via the ODS tree). 111 is published no finer than the IUC contract area (ICB-aligned), and no contract area matched this scope’s ICB, so the tile shows the patient’s NHS region ranked against the OTHER NHS regions (with the all-regions median) rather than against England, which contains it. Only GP appointments per 1,000 registered patients is attributed to this PCN. Lines are indexed to 100 at the window start and show correlation, not causation.