Updated 19 March 2019
The provider, Elm Tree Surgery, delivers regulated activities from its sole site at:
Elm Tree Surgery
High Street
Shrivenham
Swindon
SN6 8AG
Tel: 01793 782207
Website: www.elmtreesurgery.co.uk
Elm Tree Surgery is located in a listed building in the village of Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and is one of 24 practices serving the NHS Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area. The practice premises were not originally designed to deliver primary health care services and therefore extending the premises and opportunities to make changes to the outside of the building are limited.
The practice has around 7,127 registered patients from an area surrounding the practice. Patient turnover is high (compared to other practices in Swindon CCG) because families of military staff at the nearby Defence Academy register with the practice and move on in a relatively short period of time. The number of female patients aged between 45 and 60 years is higher than the national average. There are also more patients in the 0 to 4, 5 to 9 and 70 to 74 age ranges when compared with local and national data. Many of the military staff attending the Defence Academy are from overseas and the practice has patients registered whose first language is not English. Patients of the practice speak around 60 different languages.
Over half of the registered patients live in rural locations. Patients reside in three counties – Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire – requiring the practice to deal with three different local authorities and a variety of health care providers. Ninety-six percent of the practice population describes itself as white, and around 4% as having a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background. The practice boundary has an estimated low level of socio-economic deprivation: a local area measure recorded a score of 10, on a scale of 1-10, with a higher score indicating a less deprived area. (Note that the circumstances and lifestyles of the people living in an area affect its deprivation score. Not everyone living in a deprived area is deprived and not all deprived people live in deprived areas).
Elm Tree Surgery is working with a number of other NHS GP practices locally, as part of the Brunel Health Group. The aim of the working relationship is to develop services, share best practice and collaborate on health initiatives.
The practice has a General Medical Services (GMS) contract to deliver health care services. (A GMS contract is a contract between NHS England and general practices for delivering general medical services, and is the most common form of GP contract).
Elm Tree Surgery is a research practice and offers patients the opportunity to be part of trials that address common health issues (for example, concerning mental health conditions). The surgery also offers training to qualified doctors who are seeking to become GPs.
Elm Tree Surgery is registered to provide the following regulated activities:
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
- Diagnostic and screening procedures
- Maternity and midwifery services
- Surgical procedures
- Family Planning
There are four GP partners (two female, two male), and one salaried GP (female). The nursing team includes three practice nurses, and a healthcare assistant. Clinical staff are supported by a practice manager and a team of administration and reception staff. There is a dispensary at the practice which dispenses to approximately 3,400 of the registered patients. The practice also has a travel clinic and is a yellow fever centre.
The practice is open between 8am and 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Appointments with GPs are from 8.30am to 11.30am every morning and from 2pm to 6pm. Extended hours surgeries are offered three evenings a week (various), until 7.45pm.
The practice has opted out of providing Out-Of-Hours services to its own patients. Outside of normal practice hours, patients can access the NHS 111 service, and an Out-Of-Hours GP is available at Swindon Walk-In Centre. Information about the Out-Of-Hours service was available on the practice website, in the patient registration pack, and as an answerphone message.