Statement of Purpose

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The name and address of the registered provider is Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group.

• CQC provider ID: Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group
• Registered manager: Dr Alex Bayes
• Interim Practice Manager: Jacqueline Rudge

Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group is a partnership. There are 8 Partners and 3 salaried GP’s:

• Dr Alex Bayes - MBChB, MRCGP (Manchester 1999)
• Dr Emma Webster - MBChB MRCGP DRCOG DFFP (Manchester 1996)
• Dr Antonia Stirling - BSc, MBChB, MRCGP (merit 2005), DRCOG, DFFP
• Dr Alistair Carmont - MBChB, MRCGP, DCH, BSc
• Dr Christine Ahmed - MBChB MRCGP DRCOG PGClinDipDerm
• Dr Ismail Mahmood - MBChB, MRCGP
• Dr Alex Walker - BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCGP, PGCert (Diabetes)
• Dr Alison Siriwardena - MbChB (Edinburgh), FRCSEd, MRCGP, DRCOG
• Dr Jasvinder Tack - BSC, MSC, MBCHB, MRCGP (Warwick 2008)
• Dr Lisa Collins - MBBS.MRCP,DFFP, MRCGP (UCL 1998)

ANP:

Mrs Sally Wood - RGN, Dip N (Nursing) Bsc (Hons) (Nursing in Practice) Msc (Advanced Nursing Practice)

Practice Nurses:

• Miss Chloe Seisay - RGN
• Mrs Janice Shingleton - RGN
• Mrs Tina Nookanah - RGN

Bramhall and Shaw Heath Medical group is a training practice. The main surgery is a Partner owned property within an old established building, located on the outskirts of the village centre. There is local parking. There are clinical patient areas on both the ground floor and the first floor, with disabled access at the back of the building with part of the administration team housed on the top floor. Our second site is in Shaw Heath Health Centre - a purpose built health centre established in the 1970s. The combined sites care for a patient list size of approximately 14,100 patients.

Both sites have car parks, with access and toilet facilities for disabled patients and baby change facilities at Bramhall Park Medical Centre.

As part of the Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Primary Care Network, Bramhall and Shaw Health Medical provided coronavirus vaccination services from a satellite site at Manchester Rugby Club, Cheadle Hulme from December 2020 to July 2021 and Woodford Community Centre, Woodford in the winter of 2021. These sites are also accessible for wheelchair users with disabled parking and toilet facilities.

Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (The Care Quality Commission Registration) regulations 2009 Part 4), the registering body Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group is required to provide to the Care Quality Commission a statement of purpose.

Our purpose is to provide people registered with the practice with personal health care of the highest quality and to seek continuous improvement on the health status of the practice population overall.  We aim to achieve this by developing and maintaining a safe, effective and respected practice which is responsive to people’s needs and expectations and which reflects whenever possible the latest advances in Primary Health Care.

We aim to do this with the following objectives:

• Provide a high standard of medical care incorporating effective Clinical Governance and evidence-based practice
• Be committed to our patients needs
• Act with integrity and complete confidentiality
• Be courteous, approachable, friendly and accommodating
• Ensure safe and effective services and environment
• To improve as a patient centred service through decision making and communication
• To maintain our motivated and skilled work teams
• Through monitoring and auditing continue to improve our healthcare services
• Maintain high quality of care through continuous learning and training
• To guide our employees in accordance with diversity and equality
• To ensure effective and robust information governance systems
• Treat all patients and staff with dignity, respect and honesty.

The registered activities and service types have been agreed by the Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group’s Practice Business Manager and Partners in accordance with CQC guidance.  Services are described under registered activity and service type.

The services provided by Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group are inclusive for the whole local registered population. 

The regulated activities under CQC are:

• Routine medical checks and general medical services, mostly NHS with occasional private consultations.  This includes the provision of routine and urgent /emergency appointments, home visits as required and all associated administration
• We offer extended hours with a surgery starting at 7:30am weekdays excluding Wednesday when we offer appointments between 18:30-20:00. The surgery is open 5 full days a week with no half day or lunchtime closing and 1 in every 4 Saturdays.
• Out of hours is covered by our local provider, Mastercall Out of Hours Service.
• Immunisations e.g., Routine childhood and adult vaccination, flu vaccination, Covid
• Child health surveillance
• Foreign travel advice and vaccination
• We carry out medicals report, e.g., for insurance companies
• Smoking Cessation – Any patient who is a smoker and ready to stop smoking will be seen by one of our Practice Nurses for an assessment, advice and help re cessation
• Respiratory Care – Management of respiratory conditions
• Diabetic Care – We offer a diabetes review with the Practice Nurse (within normal surgery times) to provide ongoing care for our diabetic and pre-diabetic patients
• Family planning is offered within normal surgery times and incorporates advice on the full range of options.  We also fit contraceptive implants within the surgery
• Phlebotomy – We have daily Health Care Assistant sessions for routine blood tests alongside the Practice Nurse
• Midwifery - The community midwives hold their own clinics at Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group for patients at Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group.  They supervise antenatal care, undertake deliveries in hospital and at home where appropriate
• Minor Surgery - We offer several minor surgical procedures and joint injections carried out by Dr Stirling
• Well person checks – These can be carried out with any practice nurse
• ECGs are carried out either routinely or in an acute setting by our HCA or practice nurse
• Cervical screening – Our nurses carry out routine cervical screening
• Multi-disciplinary Team meeting - The practice holds regular team meetings with other service providers reviewing palliative care and safeguarding issues.

General Information

We endeavour to treat all our patients to the best of our ability and to do this with dignity, respect and honesty.  Everyone at Bramhall & Shaw Heath Medical Group is committed to deliver an excellent service.  We ask all patients to highlight any concerns and address these professionally.

Continuity of Care

Building and maintaining a strong relationship between doctors, health professionals, and patients is essential to the way we work. This is especially so in the management of ongoing problems or long-term illness. In these circumstances we encourage patients to continue seeing the same health professional and wherever possible we will facilitate this through our appointments system. However, for a new problem, and where the doctor or nurse that you normally see is not available, or if you would wish to see someone else, then we would encourage you to see any of the doctors or nurses at the practice.

Learning and Training

• We are a proud accredited teaching practice, providing placement to both Foundation Trainees and Speciality GP Trainees, in addition to hosting medical students at different stages of their medical degree course. 
• As a training practice we are committed to the training of doctors and nurses.  We believe in “life-long learning” and all the health professionals and administrative staff undertake an annual appraisal whereby learning and development needs are identified.

Information Governance

We are fully compliant with the Data Protection Act. Confidentiality is maintained at all times by the practice team.

Patient Reference Group

We are currently in the process of re-establishing both a Patient Participation Group and Patient Virtual Group. This will comprise of a group who will be involved online only.  We value their contribution and feedback from patient surveys and suggestions.

Open List 

The practice has an open list policy and accepts patients who are resident and newly resident in the surrounding Bramhall and Shaw Heath area.  The practice will also never turn away with no fixed abode.