ABOUT US
Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) is a not-for-profit, at-scale provider of primary care services in Northumberland and North Tyneside. Our organisation launched in 2015 with an ambition to work at scale with like-minded practices, improving resilience and quality of services for our patients whilst retaining practice identity and team composition.
We operate with a unique model of an entirely salaried workforce providing primary care services to around 134,000 patients from 20 GP surgery locations (12 GP practices). We employ more than 500 staff.
“Since joining Northumbria Primary Care, I’ve been able to achieve a much healthier work/life balance.”
“It’s a relief knowing that things like recruitment, building management etc are taken care of. Me and my team can now focus all of our time on our patients.”
“The support that NPC provides our practice allows us to spend more time providing primary care.”
“My work/life balance is better than it’s ever been.”
“Allowing to focus more on the clinical aspects of my role has meant our patient satisfaction has gone up.”
“There’s been a marked improvement in the positive feedback we receive from patients since we began working with NPC”
What we do
NPC provides practices an option where partners retain their GMS/PMS contract, to continue working with their team, from their practice seeing their own patients but with the support, resilience and security of being part of a larger organisation.
More InfoWhy join us
The reasons for joining NPC vary from practice to practice. From estate challenges to future planning, we’re here to help.
More InfoOur surgeries
We currently have 9 fully sub-contracted practices within Northumbria Primary.
More InfoRECENT MEDIA POSTS
Meet our Deputy Director, Stephanie Wardle
Kicking of the 2025 Our NPC Team series, we sat down with our deputy director, Stephanie Wardle.
Steph joined us in September 2024, bringing 15+ years invaluable experience working in community services within with our parent trust, Northumbria Healthcare and 3 years in primary care.
Northumbria Primary Care staff celebration and QI event
Northumbria Primary Care (NPC) is proud to celebrate the dedication
Meet our lead practice nurse for our North Tyneside neighbourhood, Lisa Hutchinson
As part of the NPC Our Team series, we’ll be catching up with all our neighbourhood lead nurses so you can get to know a bit more about them, their experience and why they’re passionate about doing their role, raising the profile of primary care nurses and improving the health and wellbeing of our patients.