New and improved centres to help you access primary healthcare
New health centres in east and north Birmingham
NHS Birmingham East and North has received extra funding from the national Equitable Access to Primary Care programme to enable it to open three new GP practices and a GP-led health centre:
Hodge Hill Family Practice in Hodge Hill
Hodge Hill Family Practice is a new GP surgery which serves the whole of Hodge Hill as well as its surrounding areas. From June 2009, the practice has operated from temporary premises until a permanent building opens in autumn 2011 further down Shawsdale Road, Hodge Hill. The practice employs a multi-skilled team of health professionals including male and female General Practitioners, Advance Nurse Practitioner, Practice Nurse and Health Care Assistant as well as extended opening hours including evening and weekend appointments.
Oakleaf Medical Practice in Washwood Heath
The Oakleaf Medical Practice is a new GP surgery which serves the whole of Hodge Hill as well as its surrounding areas. From November 2009, it has operated from temporary premises until a permanent building opens in summer 2011 on Clodeshall Road, Washwood Heath. The practice employs a multi-skilled team of health professionals including male and female GPs, Practice Nurses, District Nurses, Health Visitors and Community Midwives as well as extended opening hours including evening and weekend appointments.
Kingstanding Community Practice
The Kingstanding Community Practice, based at Warren Farm Health Centre (in the same building as the Urgent Care Centre) on Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding, opened in May 2010. The practice employs a multi-skilled team of health professionals including male and female GPs, Practice Nurses, District Nurses, Health Visitors and Community Midwives as well as extended opening hours including evening and weekend appointments.
Erdington Health and Wellbeing Centre
The Erdington Health and Wellbeing Centre opened in July 2010 on Erdington High Street. Three new health services are available at the new centre:
- GP-led Walk-in Centre
People can register with the GP practice based there or use the walk-in centre, where you can walk in and see a GP without an appointment between 8am and 8pm every day (365 days a year). - Health and wellbeing information centre
A health information service, run by Health Exchange, is open for help and advice on everything from stopping smoking to help with benefits. - New Attitudes – contraception and sexual health centre (due to open late 2010)
A sexual health clinic will also be based in the building, where people will be able to get advice on contraception, family planning and sexually transmitted infections.
GP training
24 additional GP training places have been created following improvement works or new training facilities built at 11 practices across the trust’s area. thanks to £1.5 million secured from NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery:
- Ley Hill Surgery, Sutton Coldfield
- Eaton Wood Medical Centre, Erdington
- Oaks Medical Practice, Streetly
- Erdington Medical Centre, Erdington
- Aylesbury Surgery, Kingstanding
- Pearl Medical Centre, Washwood Heath
- Sutton Park Surgery, Sutton Coldfield
- Apollo Surgery, Great Barr
- Four Oaks Medical Centre, Sutton Coldfield
- Ashfield Surgery, Sutton Coldfield
- The Park Medical Centre, Small Heath
This money was given to these practices to support upgrades and the building of new clinical rooms and training space.
One of the practices supported by these funds is Ley Hill Surgery in Sutton Coldfield. The practice received funding to accommodate an additional three training places, but they also part funded the building work themselves to create an even larger space and additional services for their patients.
The practice converted an adjacent house into admin space freeing up their existing first floor admin space which they then converted into three trainee consulting rooms, two GP consulting rooms and a counselling room.
