Updated 9 October 2019
The Cumberland Medical Centre is a GP partnership with three partners, (two GPs and one manager). The practice is located on a residential road within a two storey building owned by a private landlord, it is a short walking distance from several underground stations including Plaistow and West Ham and close to several bus routes connecting across the London Borough of Newham. The premises have a disabled access toilet, step free access, and parking facilities.
The Cumberland Medical Centre provides NHS primary medical services to approximately 4,100 patients in Plaistow in the London Borough of Newham, through a Personal Medical Services (PMS) 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 practice joined a group of four practices in Newham in April 2018, known as First4healthgroup which was established in 2013 and shares management resources and websites.
The Cumberland Medical Centre staff includes a male GP principal working one full day per week including clinical sessions and providing clinical oversight, a female salaried Lead GP working six sessions, two regular male long term GPs working one session each , a regular female practice nurse working four sessions, a female Healthcare Assistant working six sessions, and a clinical pharmacist working one session per week. The non-clinical staff team are a practice manager working four days a week and five administration and reception staff working a mixture of full and part time hours, all are working collaboratively with and supported by management from across the four sites of First 4 Health Group.
The practice is open from 8am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday, appointments are available Monday to Friday 9.30am to 12pm and 4pm to 6pm and the practice provides telephone consultations and home visits. Out of hours services and weekends are covered by the Newham GP Cooperative and a local network hub of GP practices. There are extended hours services set up within the local Primary Care Network (PCN) offering appointments on Saturday and Sunday with a GP, Nurse or Healthcare Assistant between 9am and 12pm. In addition, a “wrap around service” is provided by Newham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) with GP appointments available between 8am and 8pm Monday to Sunday.
The Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as two on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. The practice’s patient population has an above average number of adults with a working status of unemployed at 11.4% compared to 8.9% within the local Clinical Commissioning group area (CCG) and 4.4% nationally. The local ethnicity demographic is approximately White 42.4%, Mixed race 5.2%, Asian 24%, Black 25%, Other race 3.4%.