Updated 16 April 2019
Dr Girija Kugapala’s practice, also known as the E12 Medical Centre, is situated in a single storey building which is owned by Newham Council and is under lease.
The practice provides NHS primary medical services to approximately 4520 patients in Manor Park, London Borough of Newham, through a Personal Medical Services contract (a locally agreed alternative to the standard GMS contract used when services are agreed locally with a practice which may include additional services beyond the standard contract).
The premises have step free access with an accessible WC and has parking space for disabled patients. It’s located on a busy high road and is well served by local buses and East Ham underground station.
The practice staff includes a principle GP (Female) providing 4 sessions, a salaried GP (Male) providing eight sessions, Locum GP (Female) providing one session, Practice nurse (Female) providing two sessions, and two Health Care Assistants (Female) providing seven sessions and four sessions respectively. The practice manager works fourteen hours per week over two days and there are five administration and reception staff working a variety of part time hours.
The practice is open from 8.00am to 6.30pm on Mondays to Fridays; extended hours are provided on Mondays 6.30pm to 8.00pm and 7.30am to 8.00am on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The practice also provides telephone consultations and home visits, the home visits are carried out before morning surgery, between morning and evening surgery and after evening surgery. Out of hours services and weekends are covered by the Newham GP Cooperative.
The most recent published data from Public Health England shows the practice local ethnicity demographic is 19.7% White, 3.2% Mixed, 62.5%, Asian, 11.2% Black, and 3.4% Other ethnicity.7The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures, treatment of disease, disorder and injury, family planning maternity and midwifery services and surgical procedures.