FCMS

FCMS is a provider of Out of Hours medical services for the Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre areas. The company was established in 1994 as a non-profit making GP co-operative. It now has more than a hundred clinical members and serves over 450,000 people across Lancashire. Apart from the Out of Hours service provided for GPs, which is integrated with the NHS 111 service for the area, FCMS manages the front Gateway at the Blackpool Victoria Hospital Urgent Care Centre and the out of hours dental service for the area. It runs The Silver Line, a national free confidential telephone helpline offering information, friendship and advice to older people in the United Kingdom, and provides space support for the local drug and alcohol service.