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Longbridge Practice

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

620 Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 2AJ (020) 3668 7497

Provided and run by:
Dr Abul Arif

Important: The provider of this service changed - see old profile

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Background to this inspection

Updated 14 June 2019

Longbridge Practice provides primary medical services to approximately 4333 patients through a General Medical Services contract. (GMS is one of the three contracting routes that have been available to enable commissioning of primary medical services). The building is owned by Barking and Dagenham Council with whom the practice has a long term leasehold agreement. Longbridge Road has a variety of local amenities including a supermarket, dentist, pharmacist and various other independent shops. The practice is well served by local buses and is a little over one mile away from Barking Underground and Railway Station.

The practice is part of NHS Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group. Data available from Public Health England shows the level of deprivation within the practice population group is rated as two on a scale of one to 10. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level 10 the lowest.

The medical team is made up of one male GP working nine clinical sessions a week, a female salaried GP who works one session per week, two female nurse prescribers and a female practice nurse all working one weekly session. The clinical team are supported by a female practice manager, a reception supervisor and two reception staff. The practice’s opening times are from 8.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Surgery times are from 9.30am to 1.30pm and then 4pm to 6pm. Extended hours are offered between 6.30pm to 8pm on Tuesday. The Out of Hours service is provided by the GP Out of Hours Hub services and NHS 111 service and can be accessed by ringing the local rate telephone number which is included in the practice literature and on display.

Longbridge Practice is registered as an individual to provide the registered activities of Treatment of disease, disorder or injury; Family planning, Surgical procedures and Diagnostic and screening procedures from 620 Longbridge Road, Goodmayes, Dagenham, RM8 2AJ.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 14 June 2019

We carried out an announced comprehensive inspection at Longbridge Practice on18 April 2018. At that inspection we found the provider was meeting most of the legal requirements and regulations associated with the Health and Social Care Act 2008, however we found breaches of the regulations in relation to the provision of safe care and treatment.

We carried out an inspection on 14 May 2019 in order to follow up on those breaches and to check whether the provider had made improvements and was now meeting the regulations.

At this inspection we found:

  • Care and treatment was provided in a safe way to patients.

Details of our findings and the evidence supporting our ratings are set out in the evidence tables.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth BM BS BMedSci MRCGP

Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care