Updated 16 December 2019
Bradworthy Surgery, The Square, Bradworthy, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7SY is located within the Devon local authority and is one of 125 practices serving the NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area. It is a rural practice and provides general medical services and dispensing facilities to approximately 2,900 patients many of whom are farming families. The catchment area for the practice covers 100 square miles.
The practice has a slightly lower proportion of patients registered (54.1%) who are of working age when compared to the CCG and national averages of 57.8% and 62% respectively. It has a higher percentage (27.4%) of elderly patients over 65 years of age than local and national averages which are 23.9% and 17.3% respectively.
There are accessible facilities, with ground floor consulting rooms available and free parking on the village square, adjacent to the practice. There are few bus links or other public transport facilities.
Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as fifth on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest.
The practice is led by two GP Partners who are contracted to provide General Medical Services (GMS) and who are registered with the CQC for the following regulated activities: diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
The Partners are supported by a Practice Manager, two practice nurses, a receptionist and four other staff who also work as dispensers in the practice pharmacy.
A range of services is provided including childhood immunisations, chronic disease management and travel immunisations and several enhanced services (enhanced services require an enhanced level of service provision above what is normally required under the core GP contract) including childhood immunisation, learning disability health checks, extended opening hours, and rotavirus and shingles immunisations.
Private travel vaccinations are offered in addition to those available free of charge on the NHS and maternity services are provided by a midwife at Holsworthy Hospital.
The practice is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8am to 6:30pm for on the day urgent and pre-booked routine GP and nurse appointments. It is also open from 8am until 8pm on Tuesday to give working-age patients the opportunity to attend the practice, without impacting upon their work commitments. Further appointments are also available at other local practices between 6pm and 8pm during the week and between 9am and 12pm at the weekend.
Advance appointments can be made by telephone, online or at reception up to six weeks ahead. If a patient needs to talk to a GP about a problem, or for review, and it is not necessary to attend the surgery, they can make a telephone appointment with a GP who will call at an allocated time, on a number they supply.
Out of hour’s services are not provided as these are provided by Devon Docs whose contact details are available in the practice and on the website.
The Provider has only one location and so we inspected the location at The Square, Bradworthy, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7SY.