Updated 8 May 2018
Birchwood Medical Centre is located at 15 Benson Road, Birchwood, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 7PJ. The premises is a large purpose built building near to the shopping centre in Birchwood. The provider of the service is Dr D A Royle & Partners.
The website address is
The practice provides a range of primary medical services including examinations, investigations, minor surgery and treatments and a number of clinics such as diabetes, contraceptive services, chronic heart disease and hypertension.
The practice is part of Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The practice has a Personal Medical Contract (PMS). Data available to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) shows the practice is responsible for providing primary care services to approximately 11,254 patients.
Data available to CQC shows the number of registered patients suffering income deprivation is slightly less than the national average.
The majority of patients, approximately 96%, are white British.
The staff team includes three male and one female GP partners; five salaried GPs; three nurses one of whom is a nurse prescribe, a physiotherapist, a clinical pharmacist, two health care assistants/phlebotomist, a GP assistant, a practice manager, an assistant practice manager with four medical secretaries, four reception staff and nine clerical and support staff.
The practice is a ‘training practice.’ This means hospital doctors wanting to enter general practice spend time at the practice in order to gain the experience they need to become general practitioners. The practice also has medical students from Liverpool University.
Birchwood Medical Centre is open from 8am to 18.30pm Monday to Friday. However surgery closes on one Thursday a month, usually the last Thursday, from 1.00 p.m. for training and educational purposes. Patients requiring a GP urgently are advised to contact the NHS 111 GP out of hour’s service.