Updated 7 August 2019
Yalding Surgery Centre is located at Burgess Bank, Benover Road, Yalding, Maidstone,
Kent, ME18 6ES. The practice offered dispensing services to those patients on the practice list
who lived more than one mile (1.6km) from their nearest pharmacy. The practice has good
transport links and there is a pharmacy nearby.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures, family planning and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
Yalding Surgery is situated in a rural area of the West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 6,031 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
The provider is a principal GP, who registered with the CQC in August 2018. The practice employs four salaried GPs (two male and two female), a practice manager, two practice nurses (male and female), two health care assistants (female), an assistant practice manager (female) and three dispensers, as well as reception and administration staff. The practice is part of a wider network of GP practices, West Kent Health Limited (which is a GP federation).
The number of patients over the age of 65 was in line with the national average (practice 33%, national 31%). The National General Practice Profile states that 98% of the practice population is from a white background with a further 2% of the population originating from Black, Asian, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as seven, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 81 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 87 years compared to the national average of 83 years.