Updated 21 May 2019
Priory Medical Centre and it's branch surgeries Cape Road site and Brese Avenue are located in Warwick town centre. The Cape road site was inspected on this occasion. The practices merged in November 2017 and plans are at an advanced stage for a new combined practice building to be built in the same area. Building is due to start later in 2019.
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 is situated within the South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 18,000 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.
The provider is a partnership with seven partner GPs (three male, four female), six salaried GPs (three male, three female), one registrar GP (male), two Advanced Nurse Practitioners, three practice nurses (one is a nurse manager, one a prescriber and another currently training to be a prescriber) and three health care assistants. They are supported by a practice manager and administrative staff. Two nurses are also based at the practice who are attached to the Charity of Thomas Oken and Nicholas Eyffler (known locally as Oken). They are employed by Warwick hospital in conjunction with this charity and work with elderly and vulnerable patients.
The practice is a member of the local GP federation, a group of practices who work together to monitor and improve GP services locally. It is also a training practice.
There are slightly higher than average number of patients of working age and aged over 65.
The National General Practice Profile states that 91.4% of the practice population has a white ethnicity, with 6.6% from a mixed race or Asian background with a further 8.6% of the population originating from black, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as nine, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 80 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 86 years compared to the national average of 83 years.