Primary care networks in Bracknell Forest

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What is it?

GP practices in England work together in groups called primary care networks (PCNs), with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their area. NHS England

• Primary care network (PCN): a group of GP practices that work together, usually serving 30,000 to 50,000 people. A PCN is made up of practices, not drawn as an area on a map. NHS England
• Registered patients: everyone on a practice’s list. A practice’s patients don’t all live near it, and people living side by side can be registered with different practices. NHS England
• Branch surgery: another site run by the same practice, with the same list of patients. NHS England
• Small area (LSOA): the Office for National Statistics’ Lower layer Super Output Areas, each home to between 1,000 and 3,000 people. Bracknell Forest has 82. ONS
• Local area (MSOA): the Office for National Statistics’ Middle layer Super Output Areas, groups of usually four or five small areas, each home to between 5,000 and 15,000 people. Bracknell Forest has 15, each with its own local area profile. ONS
• Neighbourhood: North, Central and South, the JSNA’s three groups of whole local areas, each with its own profile: North, Central and South.
• Integrated care board (ICB): the NHS body that plans health services for a wider area. Bracknell Forest’s practices have been part of NHS Thames Valley ICB since 1 April 2026, and Frimley ICB before that. NHS England

This page shows which GP practices and PCNs serve Bracknell Forest’s residents, and where each PCN’s patients live, from NHS England’s latest figures, for 1 October 2026.

Figures for 1 October 2026

NHS England counts the patients registered at each GP practice, and where they live, every three months. This page uses the latest count, for 1 October 2026, and is updated with each new one. Practices can change PCN between counts: NHS records have the latest.

PCNs in Bracknell Forest

Which networks serve the borough’s residents, and where each one’s patients live.

In summary

• Three PCNs are based in the borough. The Health Triangle has three practices, Bracknell and District four and Braccan one, Forest Health Group. Together they have 86.2% of the borough’s 137,574 residents registered with a GP.
• Other PCNs serve the other 13.8%. Ascot PCN, whose practices are in Windsor and Maidenhead, has 7.6%, mostly in Chavey Down & North Ascot West and Winkfield & Cranbourne. Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN, which includes New Wokingham Road Surgery in the borough, has 2.4%, mostly in Crowthorne South. Yateley PCN, whose practice is in Hart, has 1.5%, mostly in Sandhurst and College Town.
• PCNs have no boundaries. Because a PCN is a group of practices, the usual way to show one on a map is to give each small area to the PCN that most of its residents are registered with. BJGP Open The map below does this.
• PCNs overlap. Most small areas have patients from more than one PCN, and in 27 of the 82, most of them in North and Central, no PCN has half the residents. In South, 75.9% of residents are with The Health Triangle PCN, whose Ringmead Medical Group has branch surgeries in Yorktown, Owlsmoor and Crowthorne.
• PCNs and the neighbourhoods don’t line up. Of the residents registered with a GP, North’s are split between Bracknell and District, Braccan, Ascot and The Health Triangle; Central’s are split between The Health Triangle, Bracknell and District and Braccan; South’s are mostly with The Health Triangle.

Based in the borough

The Health Triangle PCN

36.4%

of the borough's residents registered with a GP (50,058)

Its practices:

• Ringmead Medical Group
• Crown Wood Medical Centre
• Evergreen Practice

Based in the borough

Bracknell and District PCN

27.5%

of the borough's residents registered with a GP (37,858)

Its practices:

• The Waterfield Practice
• Binfield Surgery
• Easthampstead Surgery
• Great Hollands Practice

Based in the borough

Braccan PCN

22.3%

of the borough's residents registered with a GP (30,620)

Its practice:

• Forest Health Group

Based outside the borough

Ascot PCN

7.6%

of the borough's residents registered with a GP (10,523)

Its practices:

• Green Meadows Surgery
• Ascot Medical Centre
• Magnolia House Surgery
• Kings Corner Surgery

Residents registered with a GP: people on a GP practice’s list whose home is in one of the borough’s small areas. There are more of them than residents in the Office for National Statistics’ population estimate, as lists include some people who have moved away.

Where each PCN’s patients live

All PCNs colours each small area by the PCN most of its residents are registered with, paler where that PCN has fewer than half. Choose a PCN to zoom in: each small area is shaded by the share of its residents with that PCN, the areas where it is the largest are outlined, its surgeries are named, and its figures appear beside the map. Hover over a small area to see its figures.

How this page was put together Show Hide

1. We start with NHS England's count of patients. Every three months, NHS England publishes how many patients each GP practice has living in each small area of England. This page uses the latest, for 1 October 2026, and is updated with each new one.
2. We keep the people who live in Bracknell Forest. That is everyone on a GP list whose home is in one of the borough's 82 small areas, wherever their practice is.
3. We group the practices into their PCNs. NHS England lists which PCN each practice belongs to.
4. We work out the shares. For each small area, local area and neighbourhood, we work out what share of its residents are with each PCN.
5. We colour each small area by its largest PCN. PCNs have no official boundaries, so this is the usual way to show them on a map. Where no PCN has half of an area's residents, its colour is paler.
6. Nothing is estimated. Every figure is a count NHS England publishes, or a share worked out from those counts.

The Health TriangleBracknell and DistrictBraccanAscotWoosehill and CrowthorneYateleyOther PCNsMain surgery (named on each PCN's view)Numbers: local areas

All PCNs

GP practices work together in primary care networks (PCNs). A PCN is a group of practices, not an area, so its patients live wherever they live. Each small area on the map is coloured by the PCN most of its residents are registered with: solid where that PCN has 75% or more of them, mid for 50% to 75%, pale for under half.

PCN	Residents	Largest in
	36.4%	37
	27.5%	21
	22.3%	15
	7.6%	7
	2.4%	1
	1.5%	0
Other PCNs	2.3%

Residents: share of Bracknell Forest residents registered with a GP. Largest in: how many of the borough's 82 small areas it is the largest PCN in.

Each neighbourhood's residents, by PCN

North
Central
South

Local areas

1. Binfield & Popeswood North
2. Chavey Down & North Ascot West North
3. Crown Wood North
4. Wick Hill North
5. Winkfield & Cranbourne North
6. Birch Hill & Hanworth East Central
7. Bullbrook Central
8. Central Bracknell & Wildridings Central
9. Great Hollands Central
10. Hanworth West Central
11. Priestwood Central
12. College Town South
13. Crowthorne South South
14. Owlsmoor & Broadmoor South
15. Sandhurst South

Surgeries are shown for every practice with 300 or more of the borough’s residents: a filled circle for the main surgery, a white circle with a coloured centre for a branch surgery, placed by postcode. Surgeries outside the borough are shown where they are. The numbers are the 15 local areas, listed under All PCNs.

PCNs and the three neighbourhoods

The JSNA’s neighbourhoods are built from whole local areas. The first chart shows each neighbourhood’s residents registered with a GP, by PCN. Hover over a bar for its figures.

Show the figures in this chart

Neighbourhood	PCN	Residents registered with a GP	Share
North	The Health Triangle PCN	5,488	11.7%
North	Bracknell and District PCN	17,230	36.8%
North	Braccan PCN	13,263	28.3%
North	Ascot PCN	9,901	21.1%
North	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	5	0%
North	Yateley PCN	1	0%
North	Other PCNs	963	2.1%
Central	The Health Triangle PCN	21,879	36%
Central	Bracknell and District PCN	20,449	33.6%
Central	Braccan PCN	17,253	28.4%
Central	Ascot PCN	599	1%
Central	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	34	0.1%
Central	Yateley PCN	5	0%
Central	Other PCNs	603	1%
South	The Health Triangle PCN	22,691	75.9%
South	Bracknell and District PCN	179	0.6%
South	Braccan PCN	104	0.3%
South	Ascot PCN	23	0.1%
South	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	3,241	10.8%
South	Yateley PCN	2,031	6.8%
South	Other PCNs	1,632	5.5%

The second chart turns it round: where each PCN’s patients who live in the borough live. Of the patients of the borough’s own PCNs who live here, The Health Triangle’s live mainly in Central and South; Bracknell and District’s and Braccan’s live mainly in North and Central.

Show the figures in this chart

PCN	Neighbourhood	Residents registered with a GP	Share
The Health Triangle PCN	North	5,488	11%
The Health Triangle PCN	Central	21,879	43.7%
The Health Triangle PCN	South	22,691	45.3%
Bracknell and District PCN	North	17,230	45.5%
Bracknell and District PCN	Central	20,449	54%
Bracknell and District PCN	South	179	0.5%
Braccan PCN	North	13,263	43.3%
Braccan PCN	Central	17,253	56.3%
Braccan PCN	South	104	0.3%
Ascot PCN	North	9,901	94.1%
Ascot PCN	Central	599	5.7%
Ascot PCN	South	23	0.2%
Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	North	5	0.2%
Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	Central	34	1%
Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	South	3,241	98.8%
Yateley PCN	North	1	0%
Yateley PCN	Central	5	0.2%
Yateley PCN	South	2,031	99.7%

By local area

Each local area’s residents registered with a GP, by PCN.

Show the figures in this chart

Local area	PCN	Residents registered with a GP	Share
Winkfield & Cranbourne	The Health Triangle PCN	101	1.6%
Winkfield & Cranbourne	Bracknell and District PCN	962	15.5%
Winkfield & Cranbourne	Braccan PCN	1,658	26.7%
Winkfield & Cranbourne	Ascot PCN	3,104	50%
Winkfield & Cranbourne	Other PCNs	383	6.2%
Binfield & Popeswood	The Health Triangle PCN	1,034	6.6%
Binfield & Popeswood	Bracknell and District PCN	10,862	69.8%
Binfield & Popeswood	Braccan PCN	3,207	20.6%
Binfield & Popeswood	Ascot PCN	237	1.5%
Binfield & Popeswood	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	5	0%
Binfield & Popeswood	Yateley PCN	1	0%
Binfield & Popeswood	Other PCNs	208	1.3%
Wick Hill	The Health Triangle PCN	1,049	9.8%
Wick Hill	Bracknell and District PCN	3,703	34.4%
Wick Hill	Braccan PCN	5,383	50.1%
Wick Hill	Ascot PCN	501	4.7%
Wick Hill	Other PCNs	118	1.1%
Chavey Down & North Ascot West	The Health Triangle PCN	238	3.1%
Chavey Down & North Ascot West	Bracknell and District PCN	527	6.8%
Chavey Down & North Ascot West	Braccan PCN	829	10.7%
Chavey Down & North Ascot West	Ascot PCN	5,936	76.8%
Chavey Down & North Ascot West	Other PCNs	198	2.6%
Crown Wood	The Health Triangle PCN	3,066	46.4%
Crown Wood	Bracknell and District PCN	1,176	17.8%
Crown Wood	Braccan PCN	2,186	33.1%
Crown Wood	Ascot PCN	123	1.9%
Crown Wood	Other PCNs	56	0.8%
Priestwood	The Health Triangle PCN	2,094	27.2%
Priestwood	Bracknell and District PCN	2,188	28.4%
Priestwood	Braccan PCN	3,282	42.6%
Priestwood	Ascot PCN	62	0.8%
Priestwood	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	1	0%
Priestwood	Other PCNs	78	1%
Bullbrook	The Health Triangle PCN	1,959	17.3%
Bullbrook	Bracknell and District PCN	5,242	46.2%
Bullbrook	Braccan PCN	3,685	32.5%
Bullbrook	Ascot PCN	335	3%
Bullbrook	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	3	0%
Bullbrook	Other PCNs	126	1.1%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	The Health Triangle PCN	4,215	29.4%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	Bracknell and District PCN	5,605	39%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	Braccan PCN	4,313	30%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	Ascot PCN	79	0.6%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	2	0%
Central Bracknell & Wildridings	Other PCNs	142	1%
Great Hollands	The Health Triangle PCN	5,986	47.6%
Great Hollands	Bracknell and District PCN	4,317	34.3%
Great Hollands	Braccan PCN	2,076	16.5%
Great Hollands	Ascot PCN	39	0.3%
Great Hollands	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	27	0.2%
Great Hollands	Yateley PCN	1	0%
Great Hollands	Other PCNs	139	1.1%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	The Health Triangle PCN	3,446	43.3%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Bracknell and District PCN	1,906	24%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Braccan PCN	2,471	31.1%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Ascot PCN	60	0.8%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	1	0%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Yateley PCN	2	0%
Birch Hill & Hanworth East	Other PCNs	66	0.8%
Hanworth West	The Health Triangle PCN	4,179	60.8%
Hanworth West	Bracknell and District PCN	1,191	17.3%
Hanworth West	Braccan PCN	1,426	20.7%
Hanworth West	Ascot PCN	24	0.3%
Hanworth West	Yateley PCN	2	0%
Hanworth West	Other PCNs	52	0.8%
Crowthorne South	The Health Triangle PCN	3,474	44.6%
Crowthorne South	Bracknell and District PCN	46	0.6%
Crowthorne South	Braccan PCN	18	0.2%
Crowthorne South	Ascot PCN	5	0.1%
Crowthorne South	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	2,610	33.5%
Crowthorne South	Yateley PCN	326	4.2%
Crowthorne South	Other PCNs	1,316	16.9%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	The Health Triangle PCN	7,618	88.2%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Bracknell and District PCN	95	1.1%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Braccan PCN	59	0.7%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Ascot PCN	12	0.1%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	561	6.5%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Yateley PCN	173	2%
Owlsmoor & Broadmoor	Other PCNs	123	1.4%
Sandhurst	The Health Triangle PCN	5,823	81%
Sandhurst	Bracknell and District PCN	20	0.3%
Sandhurst	Braccan PCN	18	0.3%
Sandhurst	Ascot PCN	1	0%
Sandhurst	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	62	0.9%
Sandhurst	Yateley PCN	1,167	16.2%
Sandhurst	Other PCNs	96	1.3%
College Town	The Health Triangle PCN	5,776	92%
College Town	Bracknell and District PCN	18	0.3%
College Town	Braccan PCN	9	0.1%
College Town	Ascot PCN	5	0.1%
College Town	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	8	0.1%
College Town	Yateley PCN	365	5.8%
College Town	Other PCNs	97	1.5%

Each local area's profile: Winkfield & Cranbourne, Binfield & Popeswood, Wick Hill, Chavey Down & North Ascot West, Crown Wood, Priestwood, Bullbrook, Central Bracknell & Wildridings, Great Hollands, Birch Hill & Hanworth East, Hanworth West, Crowthorne South, Owlsmoor & Broadmoor, Sandhurst, College Town

The practices

Nine practices have their main surgery in Bracknell Forest. The table lists every practice with 300 or more of the borough’s residents registered, from the most down. The last column is the share of each practice’s patients who live in the borough.

GP practices with 300 or more of Bracknell Forest's residents registered, 1 October 2026

Practice	PCN	Borough residents	Patients in all	Share living in the borough
Ringmead Medical Group	The Health Triangle PCN	37,335	40,380	92.5%
Forest Health Group	Braccan PCN	30,620	30,962	98.9%
The Waterfield Practice	Bracknell and District PCN	15,190	15,304	99.3%
Binfield Surgery	Bracknell and District PCN	11,085	12,626	87.8%
Easthampstead Surgery	Bracknell and District PCN	7,320	7,473	98%
Crown Wood Medical Centre	The Health Triangle PCN	6,796	7,027	96.7%
Green Meadows Surgery (surgery outside the borough)	Ascot PCN	6,043	9,368	64.5%
Evergreen Practice	The Health Triangle PCN	5,927	5,966	99.3%
Great Hollands Practice	Bracknell and District PCN	4,263	4,400	96.9%
Ascot Medical Centre (surgery outside the borough)	Ascot PCN	3,425	7,210	47.5%
New Wokingham Road Surgery	Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN	3,267	9,837	33.2%
The Oakley Health Group (surgery outside the borough)	Yateley PCN	2,037	29,559	6.9%
Wokingham Medical Centre (surgery outside the borough)	Modality Wokingham PCN	1,330	28,469	4.7%
Magnolia House Surgery (surgery outside the borough)	Ascot PCN	616	8,643	7.1%
Kings Corner Surgery (surgery outside the borough)	Ascot PCN	439	6,968	6.3%

How the PCNs have changed

NHS records list the borough’s PCNs from October 2019, and show these changes since: NHS England

• Forest Health Group was part of Bracknell and District until March 2021, then became Braccan PCN on its own.
• Binfield Surgery was part of Bracknell and District from October 2019 to March 2020, in no PCN from April 2020, and part of Bracknell and District again from April 2023.
• New Wokingham Road Surgery in Crowthorne was part of Modality Wokingham PCN until March 2022, then Woosehill and Crowthorne PCN.
• Ringmead Medical Group has branch surgeries in Great Hollands, Yorktown (Sandhurst), Owlsmoor and Crowthorne.
• The three PCNs based in the borough, and Ascot, moved from Frimley ICB to NHS Thames Valley ICB on 1 April 2026. Woosehill and Crowthorne’s practices, in Berkshire West, are in NHS Thames Valley ICB too.

Further information

How to read PCN figures, and where the figures on this page come from.

Using PCN figures

• A PCN’s figures describe its patients, not a place. They cover everyone on its practices’ lists, wherever they live, and leave out residents registered with other PCNs. Read them as figures for a group of practices. The JSNA’s topic pages show GP practice figures the same way: each practice beside England, never added up into a borough figure.
• For figures about places, use the local area and neighbourhood profiles. They count residents where they live: the local area profiles and the North, Central and South neighbourhood profiles.
• To set a PCN beside a neighbourhood, use the bars above. They show how many of each neighbourhood’s residents are with each PCN, and where each PCN’s patients live.
• Fingertips publishes many measures for PCNs, among them conditions recorded by GPs, screening, childhood vaccinations and the GP Patient Survey. Fingertips It lists PCNs under NHS areas, not councils: choose “Primary Care Network” as the area type, then the NHS area. It may still use the NHS areas’ names from before April 2026, when Frimley ICB became part of NHS Thames Valley ICB.

Bear in mind

• GP lists count more people than live here. Some people stay on a list after moving away. NHS England works to remove them, so counts can fall from one release to the next. NHS England
• The largest PCN hides the overlap. Where no PCN has half an area’s residents, the area’s colour on the “Largest PCN” view says little. The views for each PCN, and the bars, give the fuller picture.
• Small numbers move. NHS England publishes every count, however small, so the colour of an area at the edge of a PCN can change from one quarter to the next.
• Surgeries are placed by postcode from NHS records. The map doesn’t show which services each site offers or when it is open.
• Residents are registered with 15 practices in numbers of 300 or more, and with a few people each at hundreds of others across England (people who have moved, students and others). Those are in “Other PCNs”.
• Shares are worked out from NHS England’s published counts. Nothing is modelled or estimated.

Where these figures come from

The figures on this page are for 1 October 2026, NHS England’s latest count. The page is updated every three months, when NHS England publishes a new count with patients by small area (in January, April, July and October).

• Registered patients, by practice and by small area, and which practices are in which PCN: NHS England, Patients Registered at a GP Practice, October 2026, as at 1 October 2026.
• Branch surgeries, and the dates practices joined and left PCNs: NHS England’s Organisation Data Service, read when the page’s figures were last updated (26 October 2026).
• Where each surgery is: its postcode, placed with the Office for National Statistics’ postcode directory (through postcodes.io).
• Small area and local area boundaries: the Office for National Statistics’ 2021 boundaries, as on every JSNA map.
• The method for the map: each small area is given to the PCN with most of its registered residents, as in Beaney and others, Comparing registered and resident populations in Primary Care Networks in England (BJGP Open, 2022).