Blackpool GP Practice Populations

NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) commissions healthcare services for patients registered to its member GP practices.  In October 2018 this covered a population of 174,025 people and is considerably higher than the resident population of the Blackpool Council local authority area. 

The health economy across the Fylde Coast is developing new models of care which will be delivered in six neighbourhoods across Blackpool; integrating a range of primary, community, acute, social, third sector and other services around the registered populations of practices. Neighbourhoods are based on groups of GP practices covering populations of 20,000 to 40,000 patients, and builds on their local health, social care, voluntary service and estate assets available to deliver integrated care. The neighbourhood groupings are indicated in Figure 2.  Taking a geographic approach enables the various supporting links among statutory, public and third sector services to be maximised. It also ensures that some of the more enduring problems of social isolation, loneliness and poor mental health, much of which underpins poor physical health, will be tackled more effectively.

Further information about the neighbourhood and plans for new models of care can be found in the Blackpool Enhance Primary Care Model Service Description document.

Neighbourhood Profiles

Profiles of the six neighbourhoods have been produced to provide information on a number of key indicators in relation to GP cluster populations. They contain descriptive analysis of the registered population in terms of its geographic spread, age/sex structure, deprivation and prevalence of health conditions to create an estimation of the health needs in these areas compared to Blackpool as a whole and England. 

Further demographic data is provided using Experian MOSAIC segmentation tool.  Comparisons for the neighbourhood is against the national average and is an estimate of health characteristics and behaviours of the population based on the characteristics of the area, it is not the actual behaviour of the area’s population.

• • Far North   (1,000 KB)

  • North   (951 KB)

  • Central East   (1,010 KB)

  • Central West   (1,012 KB)

  • South Central   (1,000 KB)

  • South   (958 KB)

Figure 2: Location of GP practices and their neighbourhoods