Folkestone Hythe and Rural Primary Care Network (PCN) is located in the East of Kent, covering the coastal towns of Hythe and Folkestone and the surrounding rural villages including Lyminge and Hawkinge. With its rolling countryside and coastal views, busy market towns, and views of the French coastline, this area of natural beauty exemplifies the reason Kent is known as the Garden of England. East Kent is the home of the Channel Tunnel providing speedy access to the continent, as well as the home to many large companies such as Saga and Holiday Extras, making this area a popular place to live and work.

The surgeries within this PCN provide general medical services as well as services tailored to the specific demographics for the population they serve. The PCN’s current footprint is the combined boundaries of the constituent practices traveling west as far as Folkestone, North to Hawkinge and East to West Hythe.

Folkestone Hythe and Rural PCN have been working with system partners as well as healthcare organisations to improve the services provided to our patients.

GP practices work together in order to standardise the care across the practices in our area.

We work in close collaboration with other health care providers such as Kent and Medway Partnership Trust and Kent County Council. Our primary care network brings together the experience and skills of its doctors, nurses, pharmacists, practice managers and other non-clinical staff. We work closely with our Patient Participation Group to deliver appropriate services. Our PCN Patient Participations Group has representatives from each of the individual practices’ PPGs as members.