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Why look at neighbourhoods?
A figure for Bracknell Forest as a whole is an average, and an average can hide real differences between the places within it. Two areas a short walk apart can have very different health, money and housing. Looking at each neighbourhood, and at the local areas inside it, helps show where need is greatest and where it might be missed.
National guidance asks the local NHS and the council to write neighbourhood health plans, from 2027/28, shaped by the JSNA. However those plans are drawn, looking at three neighbourhoods shows differences one borough figure can't.
Every figure here is also on a JSNA topic page, from the same data, so you can follow any measure back to its topic for the detail.
Central's local areas in full
Central is made up of 6 local areas. Each has its own profile: where it is, who lives there, how deprived it is, and every measure on this page for that area alone.
How does this relate to PCNs?
GP practices work together in primary care networks (PCNs). A PCN is a group of practices, not an area, so PCNs don't line up with North, Central and South: people living side by side can be registered with practices in different PCNs.
Of Central's residents registered with a GP, 36% are with The Health Triangle PCN, 33.6% with Bracknell and District PCN and 28.4% with Braccan PCN (NHS England, 1 October 2026).
