About Us

SMASH Care Community serves the population of Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager, Scholar Green & Haslington. This is a population of approximately 69,000 people.

The geography is based upon the registered lists of the seven GP Practices within our own Primary Care Network (PCN). SMASH PCN is one out of 1,250 in England.

What do Care Communities do?

Care Communities are about the local community. They include the local GP network but are wider than this. They need to be inclusive of all parties with an interest in the health of the local population – including representation from local people themselves.

It includes the wider primary care team, consisting of; Community Mental Health Teams, District Nurses, Community Physiotherapists, Midwives, Pharmacists and other community specialists.

There are other parties who have a significant role such as Social Care, Public Health, Education, Town Planners, Local Employers, Third Sector, Local Sports Groups, Parish Councils and of course the Communities themselves.

The idea of the Care Community is to arrange care, interventions and provide innovative health solutions in partnership with the local community that suit the needs of a whole population and takes the views of all these stakeholders into account. The reasons behind this are many but we face different problems today than in the past. An ageing population and increasingly complex care needs mean that single entities and indeed healthcare teams alone cannot solve all the problems we face. We will work in partnership to deliver not only a Care Community but a community that cares.