Updated 14 November 2019
Medlock Vale Medical Centre is the registered provider and provides primary care services to its registered list of approximately 8240 patients. The practice delivers commissioned services under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract and is a member of Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
The GMS contract is the contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering primary care services to local communities. The practice offers direct enhanced services that include meningitis provision, the childhood vaccination and immunisation scheme, facilitating timely diagnosis and support for people with dementia, influenza and pneumococcal immunisations, learning disabilities, minor surgery and rotavirus and shingles immunisation.
Regulated activities (Family planning, Diagnostic and screening procedures, Treatment of disease, disorder or injury, Surgical procedures and Maternity and midwifery services) are delivered to the patient population from the following address:
58 Ashton Road, Droylsden, Greater Manchester M43 7BW.
The practice has a website that contains comprehensive information about what they do to support their patient population and the in house and online services offered:
The provider is currently a partnership who registered with the CQC in February 2017. The practice employs four GPs and three long term locum GPs male and female locum GPs. In addition, they employ four part time advanced nurse practitioners, four part time practice nurses, two clinical pharmacists, an assistant practitioner and a phlebotomist. The practice has a management team which includes a clinical business manager and operations business manager, who are supported by a team of reception and administration staff.
The age profile of the practice population is broadly in line with the CCG averages. Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is located in the fifth less deprived decile (from a possible range of between 1 and 10). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services. The practice has a higher than average older population with 20.3% aged 65 years and over (CCG - 16.9%, England 17.2%).