Updated 10 January 2019
- The name of the registered provider is The Barham & Claydon Surgery.
- The practice is registered to provide diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
- The practice has a General Medical Services (GMS) contract with NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
- There are approximately 3100 patients registered at the practice.
- The practice’s premises consist of portable units that were erected over 20 years ago as a temporary measure to provide healthcare to the local population. To date, no solutions had been found to address the premises shortcomings, however the partnership continued to investigate ways to improve or relocate the premises.
- There are two partners, one a GP and one a pharmacist. The practice team consists of one GP partner, two salaried GPs and one long term locum GP (one male, three female). There is one nurse practitioner, who works three days a week, a practice nurse, who works two afternoons a week, a respiratory nurse who works one day a month, a specialist diabetes nurse who works two afternoons a month, a healthcare assistant, who is also qualified to work as a dispenser, and a dispensary manager. The practice manager is supported by a practice facilitator and a practice administrator, who were skilled to cover each other’s roles. They also cover the receptionist role, with the dispensary manager, health care assistant and one receptionist.
- The practice and dispensary are open from Monday to Friday 8am to 6.30pm, with the practice closed for appointments between 1pm and 1.45pm. During this time, the practice doors were locked with a notice advising they were closed for lunch. However, during this time, if patients contacted the practice by telephone or knocked on the door with an urgent need, they would be accommodated. Patients could book evening and weekend appointments with a GP through Suffolk GP+ (Suffolk GP+ is for patients who urgently need a doctor’s appointment, or are not able to attend their usual GP practice on a weekday.)
- The practice offers dispensing services to those patients on the practice list who live more than one mile (1.6km) from their nearest pharmacy.
- According to information taken from Public Health England, the patient population for this service has a lower than average number of patients aged 14 to 17 years and a higher than average number of patients aged 65 to 74 years, compared to the practice average across England. Income deprivation affecting children and older people was significantly below the England average.
- An out of hours service is provided locally by Integrated Care 24 through the NHS 111 service.