Updated 27 February 2019
Beech Tree Surgery is located at 68 Doncaster Rd, Selby YO8 9AJ. The surgery has good transport links and there is a pharmacy located nearby. We also visited Carton Surgery, High Street, Carlton and Goole and Riccall Surgery, Main Street, Riccall, York.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services, family planning, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. These are delivered from all three sites.
Beech Tree Surgery, is situated within the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 16,000 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 provider has six GP partners who are registered with the CQC. The practice employs three salaried GPs there is a mixture of male and female GPs. In addition, there are six practice nurses and three health care assistants. The practice also employs a pharmacist, a muscular skeletal practitioner and three advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs), two of which are currently undergoing training. There is a practice manager, an assistant practice manager, an extensive administrative team, dispensary manager and dispensary team. At the time of the inspection there are three GP registrars, two FY2 (foundation year two doctors undergoing post graduate medical training), there is one year five medical student from the Hull and York medical school. The practice is also approved as a placement for student nurses.
There is a higher than average number of patients over the age of 65, the population under the age of eighteen years is the same as the national average. The National General Practice Profile states that 98.5% of the practice population is from a white British background. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as eight, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 79 years which is the same as the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 83 years which is the same as the national average of 83 years.