Updated 10 August 2018
Ramsbottom Medical Practice provides general medical services to 8459 patients within the Bury Clinical Commissioning Group area. Services are provided from Ramsbottom Health Centre, Carr Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9DD
The practice has a website that contains comprehensive information about what they do to support their patient population and the in house and online services offered:
Website: www.ramsbottomhc.nhs.uk
Information taken from Public Health England placed the area in which the practice is located as number nine on the deprivation scale of one to ten. (The lower the number the higher the deprivation). In general, people living in more deprived areas tend to have greater need for health services.
The practice offers services that include the national screening programmes for cervical screening, breast screening, bowel screening and abdominal aortic aneurysm screening.
The patient population comprises of:
White: 96.8%
Mixed race: 1.2%
Asian: 1.6%
Black: 0.3%
Other race: 0.1%
There are five GPs working at the practice. Two GPs are partners (one male and one female) and three are salaried GPs (two male and one female). The GPs work between four and eight sessions per week. There is a practice nurse, two health care support workers and a phlebotomist. All of these staff are female and work part time. There is a practice manager and an office manager who lead a team of reception staff.
The practice’s regulated activities are:
Diagnostic and screening procedures
Family planning
Maternity and midwifery services
Surgical procedures
Treatment of disease, disorder or injury