Updated 17 January 2019
Unsworth Medical Centre provides personal medical services to 7034 patients within the NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area.
The provider is registered with the Care Quality Commission to deliver the regulated activities of family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury, maternity and midwifery services, diagnostic and screening procedures and surgical procedures.
Unsworth Medical Centre is situated within the Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 7,200 patients under the terms of a General Medical Services contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is located as number six on the deprivation scale of one to ten. (The lower the number the higher the deprivation). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services.
The out of hours provider is Bury and Rochdale Doctors on Call (BARDOC).
There are five GPs working at the practice (three female and two male). All the GPs are partners of the practice. The GPs are supported by a team of clinical staff including; two practice nurses (one is a nurse prescriber) and a health care support worker. There is an administration team which comprises of a practice manager and a team of reception / administration staff.
The practice demographics are comparable to the local CCG and national average. The practice has a show a slightly higher than average percentage of patients in the 65+ year age group.
The National General Practice Profile describes the practice ethnicity as being 91% white British, 4.7% Asian, 1.5% black, and 2.1% mixed and 0.7% other non-white ethnicities.
The average life expectancy is 79 years for men and 83 years for women which is the same as the national average.
The general practice profile shows that 58% of patients registered at the practice have a long-standing health condition, compared to 56% locally and 54% nationally.