Updated 18 February 2019
Fallowfield Medical Centre is located at 75 Ladybarn Lane, Fallowfield in Manchester. The practice is part of the NHS Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services under a General Medical Services contract with NHS England. It has 2295 patients on its register. Information about the practice is available on their website at address https://fallowfieldmedicalcentre.co.uk
Fallowfield Medical Centre is situated in residential area with on street parking. It is a small practice that provided one GP consultation room and one treatment room. Adaptions to support patients with disabilities were in place.
The practice has one male and one female GP both work regularly at the practice. One of the registered GP partners provides additional support as and when required. The GPs are supported by one practice nurse, one health care assistant, a practice manager, an office manager and a team of administrative / reception staff.
The surgery is open from 8.30am until 6.00 pm Monday to Friday, except on Wednesday when the surgery is closed from 1pm. Between the hours of 08am and 8.30am and 6pm and 6.30pm the practice telephone lines direct patients to the Out of Hours provider Mastercall.
Mastercall also provides cover every Wednesday afternoon from 1pm to 6.30pm.
The practice participates in the Manchester Extended Access service and can offer patients appointments with a GP, nurse and health care assistant during the evenings and at the weekends at designated ‘hub’ locations.
Out of hours services are accessed via NHS 111.
Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as level three on a scale of one to 10. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level 10 the lowest
The numbers of patients in the different age groups on the GP practice register is generally similar to or just below the averages for GP practices in England. The practice has 71% of its population between the ages of 18 and 64years and has 55% male and 44% female patients on its register. The practice has 51.6% of its population with a status of being in paid work or in full-time education, which is lower than the CCG average (66.2%) and the England average (62.7%). A total of 11.7% of the practice population is unemployed which higher than the CCG average (6.6%) and the England average (3.9%).
The practice provides, surgical procedures, maternity and midwifery services, treatment of disease, disorder or injury and diagnostic and screening procedures as their regulated activities.