Patient Need Groups (PNGs)

The Patient Need Groups (PNGs) help us understand how much care and support each patient is likely to need, based on their health conditions, how often they use healthcare, and how complex their needs are.

There are 11 groups in total, ranging from healthy people to those with very complex or serious health needs:

1. Non-Users
2. Low-Need Child
3. Low-Need Adult
4. Low Complexity Morbidity
5. Medium Complexity Morbidity
6. Pregnancy Low Complexity
7. Pregnancy High Complexity
8. Dominant Psychiatric Condition
9. Dominant Major Chronic Condition
10. Multi-Morbidity High Complexity
11. Frailty

Knowing these groups helps explain why different patients might need different types or levels of care.

In order to help us tailor care according to individual patient need, we now have access to a tool that categorises our population into these 11 groups.