Updated 11 September 2018
Purley GP Hub operates from Purley War Memorial Hospital, 856 Brighton Road, Purley, CR8 2YL and provides GP led, pre-booked and walk in service for patients with minor injuries. Local patients are directed to call NHS 111 service who can book an appointment to this service as required. The service is one of the three GP hubs in Croydon commissioned by the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and is available to local residents and to patients who might work in the area. The service sees approximately 60 patients each day. In 2017-18 the service saw a total of 22,322 patients with the majority of these being walk-in patients.
The service is provided by AT Medics Limited as part of the Croydon Urgent Care Alliance which includes Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Croydon GP Collaborative. The service is open from 8am to 8pm seven days a week. The provider has centralised governance for its services which are co-ordinated by service managers and senior clinicians.
The clinical team at the hub is made up of one full-time male lead GP, one part-time male salaried GP, one long-term male locum GP, four long-term female locum GPs, one long-term locum doctor, one female lead nurse practitioner, one female lead nurse, two female staff nurses, one long-term male locum nurse practitioner, one long-term female nurse practitioner and one long-term locum nurse. The non-clinical service team consists of a service manager, a site co-ordinator and twelve administrative or reception staff members.
The provider is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury and surgical procedures.