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Sunlight Group Practice Also known as Parkfield Medical Centre

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Parkfield Medical Centre, Sefton Road, New Ferry, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62 5HS (0151) 644 0055

Provided and run by:
Sunlight Group Practice

All Inspections

During an assessment under our new approach

Date of Assessment: 30 June 2025 to 25 July 2025.

We conducted this assessment because the practice had not been assessed since 2016. Since that time the provider had changed and the service did not have a current rating. We assessed all quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led key questions.

Sunlight Group Practice is a GP practice that delivers services from two locations following a recent merger with another practice. The locations are Parkfield Medical Centre, Sefton Road, New Ferry, Birkenhead, CH62 5HS and Allport Surgery, 43 Bridle Road, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 6EE. They provide general practice treatment to approximately 17,791 patients under a contract held with NHS England. The National General Practice Profiles states that the demographics of the population are different in each location. However, overall Sunlight Group Practice has a deprivation score of 2 on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being the most deprived. At Sunlight group practice the population is mainly white British with approximately 5% being Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service at each location, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.

29 April 2016

During a routine inspection

Letter from the Chief Inspector of General Practice

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Sunlight Group Practice on 29 April 2016. Overall the practice is rated as good.

Our key findings across all the areas we inspected were as follows:

  • There was an open and transparent approach to safety and an effective system in place for reporting and recording significant events.
  • Risks to patients were assessed and well managed.
  • Staff assessed patients’ needs and delivered care in line with current evidence based guidance. Staff had been trained to provide them with the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver effective care and treatment.
  • Patients said they were treated with compassion, dignity and respect and they were involved in their care and decisions about their treatment.
  • Information about services and how to complain was available and easy to understand. Improvements were made to the quality of care as a result of complaints and concerns.
  • The practice had good facilities and was well equipped to treat patients and meet their needs.
  • There was a clear leadership structure and staff felt supported by management. The practice proactively sought feedback from staff and patients, which it acted on.
  • The provider was aware of and complied with the requirements of the duty of candour (The duty of candour is a set of specific legal requirements that providers of services must follow when things go wrong with care and treatment).

Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPH FRCGP 

Chief Inspector of General Practice