Updated 26 March 2019
St James' Practice is located at 138 Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 4DG.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
St James' Practice is situated within the NHS Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group and provides services to approximately 6.600 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 is a partnership of three GPs, two male and one female. There are two salaried GPs working regularly at the practice. The practice is a training practice and accommodates GP registrars. There are two nurses. The clinical staff are support by a team of reception and administrative staff. The practice was registered with the CQC in April 2013. The practice is part of the Bromley GP Alliance Limited a wider network of GP practices.
The practice age profile is similar to that nationally up to the age of 65 years. However, there are significantly more older patients at the practice than the national average. There are 50% more patients over the age of 85 years than the national average. The percentage of people in employment in the practice area is lower than the national average, unemployment being more than twice that locally. The National General Practice Profile states that 81% of the practice population are white, the remainder spread fairly evenly amongst Asians, black and mixed race peoples. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as eight, on a scale of one to ten, where level one represents the highest levels of deprivation. Male life expectancy is 82 years, the national average is 79 years. Female life expectancy is 86, the national average is 83 years.