Updated 27 January 2026
Abbey Medical Centre is a GP practice situated at 1 Harpour Road, Barking, IG11 8RJ and delivers service and provides NHS primary medical care services to approximately 8,000 patients. The practice is registered with the CQC to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures; family planning; and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. Information published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the 3rd decile (3 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.
We inspected and rated this service under our previous methodology between 4 to 12 October 2022 (published 7 November 2022). The overall rating for the practice was good with the key questions for safe, effective, caring and well-led rated as good. The key question of responsive was rated as requires improvement due to low scores on the GP Patient Survey and the practices’ complaints. We issued a requirement notice under Regulation 17 of the Health and Social Care Act (RA) Regulations 2014.
We carried out a remote focused inspection on 26 February 2026 and looked at the responsive key question. As a result of this inspection, we rated the practice as good for responsive because the practice had made the necessary improvements. The practice is no longer in breach of under Regulation 17 of the Health and Social Care Act (RA) Regulations 2014.