Updated 10 January 2019
The Seven Dials Medical Centre is located in the centre of the city of Brighton and Hove. The practice has good transport links and there are pharmacies located nearby.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the following regulated activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
The Seven Dials Medical Centre is situated within Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group and provides services to approximately 7,800 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. A GMS contract is one between the practice and NHS England where elements of the contract are standard.
The practice is run by four GP partners (male) who registered with the CQC on 1 April 2013. At the time of our inspection, a further partner (male) was set to join the practice. The practice employs two practice nurses, a health care assistant, a practice manager and a team of administration staff. There is a pharmacy technician who visits the practice on one day per week and who is shared with a cluster of five practices who have formed a GP federation. The practice is open 8am to 6pm from Monday to Friday with extended hours on Wednesdays from until 8pm. When the surgery is closed patients can access out of hours care via the 111 telephone number. Urgent calls between 6pm and 6.30pm are put through to a duty GP. Patients have access to a citywide service which enables them to see a GP at another location nearby in the evenings and at weekends.
The practice has a deprivation score lower than the clinical commissioning group (CCG) average and a little lower than the national average meaning they are less deprived. Within that there is more income deprivation affecting older people than the CCG and national average and less
income deprivation affecting children than the CCG and national average. The percentage of the practice population aged 18 and under and over 65 is lower than the national average. The percentage of the practice population between the ages of 25 and 49 is significantly higher than the national average. There are a higher number of males registered at the practice than females (4427 and 3395 respectively).