Primary Care North Cumbria is your front door into our world of primary care here in the west, east and north areas of Cumbria. It covers your local general practice, pharmacy, dentistry and optometry.

Below are some of the key groups and people involved in Primary Care North Cumbria, a collaboration of North Cumbria Primary Care Networks (PCNs) 

North Cumbria Leadership Team:

Clinical Directors, Operational Leads, Cumbria Health on Call (CHoC), North Cumbria Primary Care Alliance (NCPC), Local Medical Council (LMC), North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB)

Chair: 
Dr Robert Westgate

 

North Cumbria Operational Leads:

Each primary Care Network (PCN) is represented by their respective operational lead and makes up the Operational Lead Group who meet monthly.

The operational Lead group have oversight of project work that falls under the remit of Primary Care North Cumbria.

Chair: 
Catherine Penrice, Keswick & Solway Operational Lead
 

Primary Care North Cumbria Operational Delivery Team:

HR & Finance on behalf of Primary Care Networks:
Carlisle Healthcare / Tracey Darrington

Management Lead on behalf of operational Leadership:
Tracie Webb

Project Manager - North Cumbria:
Samantha Gargett

Communicatons & Media Project Manager:
Paul Day

For more information on Primary Care North Cumbria please get in touch via our enquiry form here.

Please note: For clinical requests please contact your appropriate health provider accordingly.

Sam Gargett
Project Manager - North Cumbria

Sam is the project manager for Primary Care North Cumbria leading on multiple projects and stakeholder relationships across North Cumbria including scoping at scale working for multiple Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and practices.

Sam also has day to day management oversight of: Communications and Media and Widening Participation.

Paul Day
Communications & Media - Project Manager

Paul leads on Communications and Media projects for Primary Care North Cumbria and specialises in digital communications, muti-media / content creation, websites, social media and design.

Paul previously worked as part of the Communications Team for NHS North Cumbria CCG and then the North East and North Cumbria ICB.

Dr Robert Westgate
Chair of North Cumbria Leadership Team

Dr Amit Paik
Training Hub Lead