Updated 17 January 2022
Abbey Road Surgery is located at 63 Abbey Road, Waltham Cross, EN8 7LJ. Abbey Road Surgery was purpose built in 1992. All patient consultations are held on the ground floor.
Opening hours
The practise is open between 8:00 – 18:30 Monday to Friday and offers on the day appointments starting at 8:30 with further emergency appointment available to book after 15:00.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services, family planning, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
Services are provided by a General Medical Services (GMS) contract (a nationally agreed contract) to approximately 9,500 patients. Abbey Road Surgery is located within the Hertfordshire local authority and is one of 55 practices serving the NHS East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area. The practice has one registered manager in place. (A registered manager is an individual registered with CQC to manage the regulated activities provided).
The practice team consists of four GP Partners and two salaried GPs. There are two locum nurses, a health care assistant, a practice manager, an assistant practice manager and a team of reception and administration staff members.
The age of the practice population served is comparable to local and national averages. The practice has a slightly higher than the local and national average number of patients aged zero to four years old and a slightly lower than average number of patients aged 65 to 84 years old. The practice population is predominantly white British and has a black and minority ethnic population of approximately 21% . Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as four, on a scale of one to 10. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level 10 the lowest.
The Out of Hours service is provided by Hertfordshire Urgent Care and can be accessed via the NHS 111 service. Information about this is available in the practice, on the practice website and on the practice telephone line.