Updated 4 April 2019
Stockport Medical Group is part of the NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Services are provided under a personal medical service (PMS) contract with NHS England. The practice had approximately 16,500 patients on their register. Stockport Medical Group provides services from three GP practices. One is the registered location at Edgeley Medical Practice, 1-3 Avondale Road, Edgeley, Stockport SK3 9NX. The second and third practices are classed as branch surgeries: Delamere Practice, 257 Dialstone Lane, Great Moor, Stockport SK2 7NA and Lowfield Practice, 5 Lowfield Road, Stockport SK2 6RW. These practices provide a full range of services including GP appointments, nurse led health screening clinics and a weekly baby clinic. We visited both these branch surgeries. Patients can request appointments at either the main surgery or the branch surgeries.
Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as four on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male and female life expectancy in the practice geographical area is below the England and CCG average for males at 77 years and 81 years for females (England average 79 and 83 respectively). The practice's unemployed patient population was higher, 3.9% compared with the CCG average of 2.9% and the England average 4.3%.
The patient numbers in the younger age groups were higher than both the CCG and England averages. For example, 7.2% of the patient population was aged 0-4 years (CCG and England average 5.6%) and the percentage of young people under 18 years of age was 22.9% compared to the CCG 20.4% and England average 20.7%.
The practice has seven GP partners (four female and three male), five salaried GPs and two GP trainees. The practice employs a practice director, two practice managers, an office manager, two advanced clinical practitioners, five practice nurses, one pharmacist, and three healthcare assistants. In addition, the practice employs a team of secretarial, reception and administrative staff.
The practice is a training practice for qualified doctors who are training to be a GP and is a medical student training practice.
Edgeley Medical Practice is open Monday 8am to 8.30pm, Tuesday 7am to 6.30pm, Wednesday to Friday 8am to 6.30pm
The Delamere Practice is open Monday 8am to 6.30pm, Tuesday 8am to 8pm, Wednesday 7am to 6.30pm and Thursday and Friday 8am to 6.30pm.
The Lowfield Practice is open 8am to 6.30pm daily apart from Thursdays when it remains open to 7.30pm.
Saturday and Sunday morning appointments are available alternate weeks between 9am and 1pm.
Patients are asked to contact NHS 111 for Out of Hours services.
The practice provides the following regulated activities: treatment of disease, disorder or injury, surgical procedures, diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning and maternity and midwifery services.