Updated 11 February 2022
Open Door Health Ltd Medical Centre is located in Grimsby at:
Albion Street
DN32 7DL
01472 722000
Practice opening hours:
Monday 8.00 am - 6.30 pm
Tuesday 8.00 am - 6.30 pm
Wednesday 8.00 am - 6.30 pm
Thursday 8.00 am - 7.00 pm
Friday 8.00 am - 6.30 pm
The provider is part of Care Plus Group (North East Lincolnshire) Ltd a provider of health and social care services predominately in North East Lincolnshire. The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
The practice offers services from the one main practice.
The practice is situated within the NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and delivers Personal Medical Services (PMS) to a patient population of about 2063. This is part of a contract held with NHS England.
The practice is part of a wider network of GP practices (Primary Care Network) called Meridian Health Group. The total population across the network is approximately 37,000.
As well as providing standard GP practice services, Open Door also provides extensive wraparound support to underserved individuals such as homeless individuals, people with substance misuse problems, asylum seekers, sex workers and the traveller community. The practice also holds the Special Allocation Scheme for North East Lincolnshire. Open Door uses community outreach and innovative service delivery to reach the underserved communities to offer equitable access to all.
The service is a nurse led service and employs the equivalent of 0.66 whole time equivalent (wte) GP locums. In addition, the practice employs, two advanced nurse practitioner equivalents, two practice nurses, two social advice officers, one sexual health outreach worker, one care coordinator, two receptionists, three health care assistants, one head of service (who is also the chief nurse) and , a general manager. The practice also accommodates drug and alcohol services, benefits officer, mental health worker and a finance officer from the council.
There is a lower than average number of patients over the age of 65 compared to the national average. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as one, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest.
According to the latest available data, the ethnic make-up of the practice area is 96.6% white, 1.6% Asian, 1% mixed, 0.4% Black, 0.5% other.
Extended access is provided locally where late evening and weekend appointments are available. There is a Single Point of Access for a wide range of wellbeing support that North East Lincolnshire has to offer; from Out of Hours GPs and Mental Health services to wellbeing advice and social work support.