Updated 23 May 2019
Oxted Health Centre is located 10 Gresham Road, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0BQ. The practice has good transport links and there is a pharmacy nearby.
Oxted Health Centre is registered with the CQC to provide the regulated activities; Treatment of disease, disorder or injury; Surgical procedures; Diagnostic and screening procedures; Maternity and midwifery services and Family planning.
Oxted Health Centre is situated in a semi-rural area of the NHS East Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 16,300 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community. The practice also provides care and treatment for the residents who are registered at the practice and who live in nearby care homes, which serve individuals with a diagnosis of dementia or who have nursing care needs. The practice runs a number of services for its patients including; family planning, chronic disease management, health checks and travel vaccines and advice. The practice shared their premises with other services including health visitors, smoking cessation, wellbeing services, and an ultrasound service.
There are six GP partners and three salaried GPs (four male, five female). There are five practice nurses, two health care assistants and two phlebotomists. The practice had also recently employed a pharmacist and urgent care practitioner. GPs and nurses are supported by the practice manager, an IT manager and a team of reception/administration staff.
Data available to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) shows the number of patients from birth to 18 years old served by the practice is comparable to the national average. The number of patients aged 85 years and over is slightly above the national average. The National General Practice Profile states that 96% of the practice population is from a white background with a further 4% of the population originating from black, Asian, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as ten, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 82 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 85 years compared to the national average of 83 years.
Oxted Health Centre is open from Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 6:30pm. Extended hours appointments are offered every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 6:30pm to 7:30pm and on Tuesday mornings from 7am to 8am.
Appointments can be booked over the telephone, online or in person at the practice. Patients are provided information on how to access an out of hour’s service by calling the practice or viewing the practice website.