Updated 18 December 2018
Featherstone Road Health Centre is located at Hartington Road, Southall, UB2 5BQ. The practice is part of NHS Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the Ealing GP federation. The practice shares the health centre with local NHS community services which it leases from NHS property services. The practice provides medical services through a Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract to approximately 7,300 registered patients. The practice serves a multicultural population group with the majority of patients of Indian and Pakistan origin. The practice is located in a challenging area of deprivation with a high prevalence of diabetes and all its complications.
Staff consist of three GP partners, five regular locum GPs, advanced nurse practitioner, three practice nurses, health care assistant, practice manager, clinical pharmacist and a small team of reception/admin staff. There is a good mix of male and female GPs offering 27 GP sessions per week and there are over 12 nurse sessions per week.
The practice is registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide the regulated activities of diagnostic & screening procedures, family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury, surgical procedures and maternity & midwifery services.
The practice provides a wide range of services including all of the local out of hospital services. These services include anticoagulant monitoring, childhood immunisations, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) clinics with spirometry, nurse led dressing clinics, learning disability health checks, minor surgery, electrocardiogram (ECG), chronic disease management, phlebotomy and 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.