Updated 17 March 2020
Galleries Medical Practice provides services to around 10,760 patients from;
- Galleries Health Centre, Washington, Tyne and Wear, NE38 7NQ
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the following Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services and treatment of disease, disorder or injury, family planning and surgical procedures.
Galleries Health Centre is in purpose-built premises; there is another GP practice on the same level and secondary care services in the building. The practice is based on the first floor. There is level access and lifts in the building. The car park for the building has disabled parking and general parking is available in the shopping centre which is close by.
The practice has three male GP partners, two male salaried GPs and one long term locum. There is one advanced nurse practitioner, three practice nurses and two health care assistants. There is a practice and support manager and 10 staff who undertake administration duties.
The practice is a training practice who have GP registrars allocated to the practice (fully qualified doctors allocated to the practice as part of a three-year postgraduate general medical training programme).
The practice provides late evening, weekend and bank holiday appointments; they are part of the local GP federation of GP practices who work together to provide appointments with GPs, nurses or health care assistants outside of their normal working hours. Patients can contact the practice reception team to arrange appointments. When this service is not provided patients requiring urgent medical care can contact the out of hours provided by the NHS 111 service.
The practice is part of NHS Sunderland clinical commissioning group (CCG). The practice provides services based on a General Medical Services (GMS) contract agreement for general practice.
Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as five, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is the same as the national average at 79 years. Female life expectancy is 82 years compared to the national average of 83 years.