Updated 30 January 2020
Armada Family Practice is located in a suburban area of Bristol city and is one of 80 practices in the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area. The practice provides services to 16,710 patients under the terms of a personal medical services (PMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
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. These are delivered from a single location:
Whitchurch Health Centre, Armada Road, Whitchurch, Bristol BS14 0SU
The provider is a partnership of three comprising two GP partners (both female) and the practice manager (who is also the Registered Manager). The practice employs 12 salaried GPs; four advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs); seven practice nurses; an advanced paramedic practitioner; two clinical pharmacists; a physiotherapist; two community nurses; and three health care assistants (HCAs). They are supported by a practice management and administrative team. The practice is a teaching practice for medical students. On the day of this inspection there were three salaried GPs on parental leave with cover in place from locum GPs; and there was one GP trainee present.
The practice patient age profile is in line with local and national averages for all age groups except for older patients where there is a higher than average number of patients over the age of 65 (20%) than the national average (17%). The National General Practice Profile states that 95.5% of the practice population is from a white background with 4.5% of the population originating from black, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups.
Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as five, on a scale of one to ten. (Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest). Male and female life expectancy is 79 years and 84 years respectively, both of which are the same as the respective national average.
The practice does not provide out-of-hours services to its patients and when closed patients can access the local out-of-hours service provider via NHS 111. Contact information for this service is available in the practice and on the practice website.