Updated 1 October 2020
Sutton Valence Group Practice is located at South Lane, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 3BD and has a branch practice at Branch Surgery, Southways, North Street, Sutton Valence, Kent, ME17 3HT (formerly known as Cobtree Medical Centre).
The practice offered dispensing services to those patients on the practice list who live more than one mile (1.6km) from their nearest pharmacy. The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures, family planning and treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
Sutton Valence Group Practice is situated in a rural area of the Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 6,568 patients under the terms of a general medical services (GMS) contract. This is a contract between general practices and NHS England for delivering services to the local community.
The provider is a partnership of two GPs (male) who registered with the CQC in October 2018. The practice employs four salaried GPs (two male and two female), an advanced nurse practitioner (female), two practice nurses (female), a health care assistant (female), a practice manager, two deputy practice managers, a dispensary manager, a phlebotomist, seven dispensers and several administration staff. The practice is a training practice and has one GP in specialist training. The practice is part of a wider network of GP practices (a federation) West Kent Health.
The number of patients over the age of 65 years is above the national average (practice 31%, national 26%). The National General Practice Profile states that 96% of the practice population is from a white background with a further 4% of the population originating from black, Asian, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as eight, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 80 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 83 years compared to the national average of 83 years.