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'''Brighton and Hove Integrated Care Service''' is a not-for-profit social enterprise and [[GP Federation]] based in [[Brighton]].
The service commissioned [[Age UK]] and Brighton and Hove Impetus in 2014 to recruit 60 volunteers to work in GP surgeries to ease the pressure in their surgeries and keep people out of hospital.  The project – known as EPIC (Extended Primary Integrated Care) – also uses nurses and pharmacists to deal with minor ailments and medicine reviews.<ref>{{cite news|title=Brighton and Hove’s family doctors take on EPIC challenge to ease pressure in A&E|url=http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2014/08/19/brighton-and-hoves-family-doctors-take-on-epic-challenge-to-ease-pressure-in-ae-2/33687|accessdate=12 March 2015|publisher=Brighton and Hove News|date=19 August 2014}}</ref>
The organisation won a contract for dermatology services from Brighton and Hove [[Clinical Commissioning Group]] - a service which they had been providing since 2010 but had to withdraw when it could not reach agreement with its proposed subcontractors.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dermatology procurement delayed after preferred bidder pulls out|url=http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/ccgs/nhs-brighton-and-hove-ccg/dermatology-procurement-delayed-after-preferred-bidder-pulls-out/5082177.article#.VQHtGPysVyU|accessdate=12 March 2015|publisher=Health Service Journal|date=17 February 2015}}</ref>
In 2016 it changed its name to Here.
==See also==
* [[Healthcare in Sussex]]
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090420/http://www.bics.nhs.uk/about-us/ BICS website]
[[Category:Health in Sussex]]
[[Category:Primary care]]