Primary care includes general practice, community pharmacy, dental and optometry (eye health) services. Primary care services provide the first point of contact to the healthcare system - acting as the ‘front door’ of the NHS - and are fundamental to people’s experiences of health and care. 

Our primary care priority

The focus of our primary care priority is to challenge the inequity of access which people tell us exists. We do this by seeking to understand the needs of our population and by providing information and advice accordingly. Alongside this we challenge and influence the healthcare system via our seats on a number of local boards and committees. Ultimately, we work to ensure that the population of Surrey know how and when to access primary care services and that services work better together to meet the needs of their local populations.

Recent work under this priority

Our recent work under this priority has included;

Reports and bulletins relating to this priority can be found under the Access to primary care category of our reports section on our website.

You can find out more about how primary care fits within the wider healthcare system on our Understanding Healthcare page.