Updated 30 August 2019
The Adelaide Medical Centre operates from 111 Adelaide Road, London NW3 3RY. It provides NHS primary medical services through a General Medical Services contract to approximately 11,500 patients. The practice has a deprivation score of 6 out 10 (10 being the least deprived) and approximately 29% of patients are from a Black and minority ethnic background.
The practice is a GP partner led practice. The practice has five GP partners, four of whom are female and one who is male. The practice also employs three salaried GP’s who are all female. The provider is a training practice and currently has two GP registrars working at the practice. The clinical team is completed by two practice nurses, and a full-time healthcare assistant. There is also a full-time practice manager, deputy practice manager, and administration staff.
The practice’s opening hours are 8.00am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, with clinical appointments available throughout the day from 8.30am. It operates extended hours for booked appointments on Monday and Friday mornings, between 7.30am and 8.30am and on Wednesday evening between 6.30pm and 8.00pm. It also offers booked appointments on Saturday morning between 8.00am and 10.00am. Phone lines operate from 8.30am to 6.00pm, Monday to Friday. Guidance on when to call the practice for specific issues is given on the practice website. The practice remains open at lunchtime.
In addition to the extended hours operated by the practice, the CCG has commissioned an extended hours service, which operates between 6.30pm and 8pm on weeknights and from 8am to 8pm at weekends at four external “Hub” locations across the borough. Patients may book appointments with the service by contacting the practice or the Hubs themselves.
Patients calling the practice outside operating hours are referred to the local out-of-hours provider. Details for the out of hours service are given on the practice website and displayed in the practice.
The practice is registered with the CQC to provide the regulated activities of Treatment of disease, disorder or injury, Diagnostic and screening procedures, Maternity and midwifery services and Surgical procedures.