Updated 22 November 2018
Guttridge Medical Centre (Dr Shahid Surgery) is situated on the Deepdale Road in Preston at PR1 6LL serving a mainly urban population. The building is a converted church that has been occupied by the practice since September 2016. The practice shares the building with one other GP practice, a physiotherapy service and a pharmacy. The practice provides ramped access for patients to the building with disabled facilities available and fully automated entrance doors. Part of the reception desk is lowered to aid patient access.
The practice has parking for disabled patients and there is parking available on nearby streets for all other patients and the surgery is close to public transport.
The practice is part of the Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and services are provided under a General Medical Services (GMS) contract with NHS England. There is one regular male locum GP who provides seven surgery sessions each week, assisted by additional locum GPs and an advanced nurse practitioner. A practice nurse, a practice manager and seven additional administrative and reception staff assist them. One of the administrative staff acts as the practice medicines co-ordinator and one member of staff is the practice information technology lead.
At the time of our inspection, the practice principal GP (the registered provider) had been absent from the practice since 22 June 2018.
The practice doors open from Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 6pm, and telephone access to the practice starts at 8am and finishes at 6.30pm. Appointments are offered from 9am to 12pm and from 2.30pm to 5.30pm on weekdays. Extra appointments are offered through the Locality Group on Sundays by appointment. The surgery has no bookable surgery on Thursday afternoon when there is a rota for the two GP practices in the Medical Centre to cover any patient emergency appointments, including home visits. When the practice is closed, patients are able to access out of hours services offered locally by the provider GotoDoc by telephoning 111.
The practice provides services to approximately 2,401 patients. There are lower numbers of patients aged over 65 years of age (14%) than the national average (17%) and the same number of patients aged under 18 years of age (21%). The practice also has considerably more male patients than female.
Information published by Public Health England (PHE) rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as three on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. The ethnicity estimate given by PHE gives an estimate of 2.7% mixed and 32.8% Asian. Male life expectancy is given as 77 years of age and female as 80 years.
The practice is registered with CQC to provide surgical procedures, maternity and midwifery services, treatment of disease, disorder or injury and diagnostic and screening procedures as their regulated activities.