New GP practice opens in Kingstanding
Residents living in Kingstanding and surrounding areas are set to benefit from NHS Birmingham East and North’s new GP practice when it opens today (Monday 10th May).
The Kingstanding Community Practice is based at Warren Farm Health Centre (in the same building as the Urgent Care Centre) on Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding B44 0PU. It will offer patients access to male and female GPs, a wide range of health clinics as well as extended opening hours including evening and weekend appointments.
Patients can register at the practice either in person or by calling 0121 382 5238. The practice will be open from 8am to 8pm Monday and Thursday; 8am to 6.30pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; and 9am to 2pm on Saturdays.
The Kingstanding Community Practice is run by Assura Vertis LLP, a partnership between 23 GP practices and leading healthcare provider Assura Medical. The practice offers a full general practice service along with a range of specialist health clinics offering everything from minor surgery and stopping smoking to maternity services and child health.
Donna Macarthur, Director of Primary Care Commissioning for NHS Birmingham East and North said: “We are delighted to open our latest practice, which we are confident will benefit hundreds of people living in and around Kingstanding. The practice’s extended opening hours will allow people to get an appointment at a time that suits them – during the evenings and on Saturdays.”
Dr Ian Morrey, GP and chair of Assura Vertis, added: “We are very excited about providing patients in Kingstanding with high quality, easy and convenient access to a GP or nurse. We are confident that the extended our opening hours will make it easier for people to see a GP or nurse at a time more convenient to them."
The practice has been developed thanks to extra funding from the national Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care programme, which aims to achieve more personalised care for everyone by opening general practices in areas with lower levels of GP provision.
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The Kingstanding Community Practice
Warren Farm Health Centre
Warren Farm Road
Kingstanding
Birmingham B44 0PU
Tel: 0121 382 5238
http://www.kingstandingpractice.nhs.uk
Opening Times
8am to 8pm Monday and Thursday
8am to 6:30pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
9am to 2pm Saturday
Enquiries
For more information on NHS Birmingham East and North, please contact the communications team on 0121 380 9103.
Press enquiries regarding Assura Medical to:
Russell Elliott, Assura Medical. Tel: 020 7107 3833
Notes for editors
Assura Vertis LLP:
-Is a 50:50 joint venture partnership between Assura Medical and 23 GP practices.
-It is an organisation which is a long-term, collaborative partnership between Assura Medical and more than 87 GPs to provide community-based services which offer patients additional choice.
-Is run by a clinical management board (CMB) which comprises three GPs, a practice manager, a business director and an Assura Medical representative. Assura Medical provides all the necessary support in the way of funding, service and commercial expertise, IT, business processes and additional resources.
-Also provides Echocardiography, Dermatology and Physiotherapy Services
-As a partner to the NHS, Assura Medical has a track record of forming partnerships with groups of GPs in order to provide high quality and safe healthcare services in primary and community settings closer to the patient’s home.
NHS Birmingham East and North
-NHS Birmingham East and North is one of 153 Primary Care Trusts within the English NHS. As a trust it is responsible for the wise investment of public money to ensure health improvement, access to health services and where appropriate the provision of health services to a local population of some 438,000 people, across 17 wards across north and east Birmingham.
-In summary we organise and fund the delivery of healthcare with the involvement of local people, maximising health outcomes for every pound spent – this is often referred to as commissioning.
-The trust’s website can be accessed at www.benpct.nhs.uk
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