By working together to share knowledge, skills and resources, we're committed to transforming healthcare in Weston-Super-Mare, Worle and local villages.
Pier Health unites GP practices in North Somerset – across Weston-Super-Mare, Worle and local villages – to deliver consistent, quality care. By working together to share knowledge, skills and resources, we’re committed to transforming healthcare in innovative ways. We aim to create a resilient and sustainable organisation with a happy, fulfilled workforce providing an excellent, consistent service to all patients.
Wherever possible, we’re committed to working collaboratively by sharing expertise and best practice – saving time and resources by reducing the duplication of tasks across our organisation. Working together, we seek out initiatives to support the best interests and sustainability of all our practices, pioneering innovation in service design and internal processes to optimise patient care and service delivery.
Pier Health is part of a wider transformation programme in the Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset area known as Healthy Weston. The project includes primary and community care, secondary care and acute care provisions, with the ambition to break down the walls between organisations and provide seamless, integrated services to patients.
Primary Care at scale is not simply more of the same. We have required a change of mindset within Pier Health and have undergone a radical reorientation of the way we work. Pier is made up of different components, each representing one of three facets: