Updated 11 June 2019
Wellsbourne Health Centre is located at 179 Whitehawk Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 5FL. The surgery is located in a shared purpose-built health centre. Services are provided on the ground and first floor with lift access. The surgery has limited transport links although there is a pharmacy located in the same building.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services and treatment of disease, disorder or injury, family planning and surgical procedures.
Wellsbourne Health Centre is situated within the Brighton and Hove City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to approximately 5,600 patients under the terms of an alternative primary medical services (APMS) contract. The service is a community interest company that was set up by doctors and nurses working in Whitehawk in partnership with a local community NHS foundation trust. The service was established to provide additional NHS services to patients living in a deprived area of Brighton and Hove.
The provider is made up of four executive directors, all clinicians working in the practice; three GPs and one advanced nurse practitioner (all female). In addition, the directors were supported by four salaried GPs (male and female), two practice nurses a healthcare assistant and assistant practitioner (female). There was a health engagement worker and link worker, two pharmacists, a pharmacy technician and pharmacy clerk. There was a business manager and practice manager and a range of reception and administration staff. The practice is part of a wider network of GP practices, working closely with the CCG in a cluster of local practices.
There are higher than average number of patients under the age of 18 and a higher than average number of working age patients. However, there is also higher than average unemployment within the patient population group. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as one, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. There are a greater proportion of patients living with a limiting long-term illness and life expectancy is identified as being lower than local and national averages. Information provided by the practice showed that male life expectancy is 10 years younger when compared to the national average of 79 years and female life expectancy is six years younger.