Updated 6 March 2019
OHP – Victoria Road Surgery is part of the provider at scale organisation Our Health Partnership (OHP).
Our Health Partnership (OHP) currently consists of 189 partners across 37 practices providing care and treatment to approximately 359,000 patients. The provider has a centralised team to provide support to member practices in terms of quality, finance, workforce, business planning, contracts and general management, whilst retaining autonomy for service delivery at individual practices. OHP also provides a mechanism by which practices can develop ideas to support the sustainability of primary medical services and provide a collective voice to influence change in the delivery of services locally and nationally.
OHP added Victoria Road Surgery as a location to their registration in October 2017.
OHP – Victoria Road Surgery is situated in the Acocks Green area of Birmingham, within a building that has been adapted for the purpose of delivering primary care medical services. The practice population is approximately 4,200 patients. The population demographics are in line with local and national averages in terms of age. Approximately 30% of the practice population identify as Black, Minority, Ethnic (BME).
The level of deprivation in the area is rated two out of ten according to the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015. (The Index of Multiple Deprivation is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas (or neighbourhoods) in England. A rating of one being the most deprived and ten the most affluent of areas).
OHP – Victoria Road Surgery is led by three GP partners (two male and one female) who are supported by two recently employed practice nurses (both female). The Practice manager is supported by a team of administration and reception staff.
The practice’s opening hours are Monday and Thursday 8.15am until 6.30pm and 8.15am until 6pm on Tuesdays and Fridays. The practice is open from 8.15am until 1pm on Wednesdays. The practice also provides extended hours on weekday evenings from 6.30pm until 8pm and on Saturdays between 9am and 1pm at another local practice through an extended hub arrangement.
Appointments are available throughout the day from 8.30am until 6.30pm on Mondays and Thursdays, 8.30am until 5.30pm Tuesdays and Fridays and from 8.30am until 1pm on Wednesdays. The practice’s out of hours service is provided by Birmingham and District General Emergency Rooms (BADGER) and the practice was one of the founding members of this out of hours service. Telephone lines are automatically diverted to the out of hours service when the practice is closed.
The practice provides NHS primary health care services for patients registered with the practice and holds a General Medical Service (GMS) contract with the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
OHP – Victoria Road Surgery is registered with CQC to provide five regulated activities associated with primary medical services, which are: treatment of disease, disorder and injury; family planning; maternity and midwifery; diagnostic and screening procedures and surgical procedures.