Updated 5 November 2019
Dr Shepherd & Partners also known as Filey Surgery is in the coastal town of Filey, North Yorkshire. The surgery has good transport links and there is a pharmacy located nearby.
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.
Filey Surgery is situated within the Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 9,069 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 has three GP partners and three salaried GPs. The practice employs a paramedic, pharmacist, advanced nurse practitioner, four extended role nurses, two practice nurses, four health care assistants, three dispensers and a phlebotomist. The practice also employs a practice manager and a range of administration managers and staff. The practice is a training practice and there are two GP registrars working at the practice. Hull and York Medical School also uses the practice as a placement for year three and five students.
There are a higher than average number of patients over the age of 65, and fewer patients aged under 18 than the national average. The National General Practice Profile states that 99.1% of the practice population is from a white background with a further 0.5% of the population originating from a mixed or other non-white ethnic group. Information published by Public Health England shows the level of deprivation within the practice population group is five, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 77 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 82 years compared to the national average of 83 years.