Updated 2 April 2019
OHP – Leach Heath Medical Centre is located in Rubery, Birmingham. The practice is situated in a purpose built building. The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; treatment of disease, disorder or injury, diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services and surgical procedures.
OHP – Leach Heath Medical Centre is situated within the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 9,000 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
OHP – Leach Heath Medical Centre 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 Leach Heath Medical Centre as a location to their registration in July 2017.
The practice has four GP partners (three female and one male), three salaried GPs (one male and two female) and a GP registrar (male). The GPs are supported by a team of three practice nurses and one health care assistant. There is a full time practice manager who is supported by a reception manager and a team of administrative staff.
Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as three, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Based on data available from Public Health England 91% of the practice population is from a white background. The practice has an above average practice population of patients aged 65 years and over with 17% of the practice population being in this age group compared to the national average of 13%.
The practice doors open between 8.30am and 6pm Monday to Friday. The telephone lines are available from 8am to 6.30pm. Consultation times are 8.40am to 11.30am and 2pm to 5.30pm daily. Extended opening hours are on a Monday evening between 6.30pm and 7.30pm and on a
Thursday morning between 7am and 8am. As part of the hub for extended hours, patients can access appointments at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Northfield between 6.30pm to 8pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm Saturday and 10am to 2pm Sunday. When the practice is closed, out of hours services are provided by Badger.