Updated 5 June 2019
GP Extended Access service (GPEA) operates from University Hospital Lewisham (UHL), Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LH. The service is co-located in the Yellow Zone within the Accident and Emergency and Urgent Care Centres. The service is provided by One Health Lewisham and is commissioned by the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The facility consists of two consultation rooms, a treatment room, reception area and an isolation room. The premises are managed by the hospital trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. The service is open from 8am to 8pm seven days a week.
The GP Extended Access (GPEA) service is available to any patient registered to a GP Practice in Lewisham and who consents to their medical record being shared. Appointments can be booked by the registering GP practice, Urgent Care Centre (UCC), SELDOC and NHS 111. GPEA does not offer a walk-in service and all appointments must be pre-booked. GP practices in Lewisham can directly book an appointment for their registered patients to be seen at the service including same day appointments. Nurse appointments are also available.
The service is commissioned to provide 29,916 appointments per annum of which 28% (8,928) could be carried out by nurses and the remaining 20,988 (72%) by GP’s.
The clinical team at GP Extended Access is made up of one part time clinical lead GP, 17 sessional GPs, nine part time nurse practitioners and six part time reception staff. The non-clinical service team consists of an operations service manager, an assistant service manager and 6 part time reception staff members.
The provider has centralised governance for GPEA’s services which are co-ordinated by the One Health Lewisham’s board of directors. The provider is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury and surgical procedures.