How we commission NHS services in north east London

NHS services include things like:

• Primary care: services provided by GPs (general practitioners), pharmacists, dentists, and optometrists.
• Secondary care: specialist services usually provided in hospitals, such as outpatient clinics, planned operations, and maternity care.
• Urgent and emergency care: A&E departments, NHS 111, ambulance services, and urgent treatment centres.
• Mental health services: support for conditions like anxiety, depression, psychosis, and more, including talking therapies and inpatient care.
• Community health services: district nursing, health visiting, rehabilitation, and care for people with long-term conditions.
• Public health services: vaccinations, screening programmes, smoking cessation, and health promotion.
• Specialised services: highly complex care such as cancer treatment, rare diseases, and organ transplants.

A range of NHS organisations, private businesses, local authorities and community organisations provide these services, and we work with them and residents to ensure they are properly funded, joined-up, high quality, and responsive to local needs.

You can see some of the services you can access via your GP, on our service directory.

We also implement national guidance on what medicines and treatments people can get.