 PRACTICE PROFILE 2007
 Practice aims
Practice history
Premises
Practice area and population
Patient Services
 Practice aims
• To provide the best possible health care for our patients.
• To promote better physical and mental health by offering a planned programme of health promotion and preventative care This is based on national and local guidelines and is aimed at those most at risk.
• To ensure that services are easily accessible, efficient and responsive to the needs of the patient.
• To maintain a pleasant, safe and efficient working environment for everyone working in the practice
• To include all members of the team in decision-making by encouraging teamwork and good communication
• To ensure that practice income is maximised so that services can be improved and partners and staff are fairly rewarded.
Practice history
In 1947 the Pardoe Practice was established in Church Road North, one year prior to the inception of the National Health Service.
As the population in Portishead increased in the 1950s, surgeries were held in a prefab in Channel View and in the partners’ houses. In 1959, the Down Road Surgery was built. Six years later the doctors formed a Group Practice in the old funeral directors premises in Combe Road and from there moved in 1977 to the Health Centre.
Throughout its short history the Practice has kept abreast of advances in medical knowledge to give the people of Portishead the best possible health care available.
Premises
The premises are just off Wyndham Way and compromises mostly ground floor consulting rooms, together with a large reception, treatment rooms, practice nurse room, and a consulting room for visiting consultants. We have disabled access with a gentle slope up to the entrance where there are automatic doors. There is a low level counter for wheelchair users. There is also a portable T loop for hearing aid users available behind reception
Practice area and population
The practice covers an area of North somerset coveing Portishead, Portbury, Clapton-in-Gordano, Weston-in-Gordano and Walton-in-Gordano. Portishead is an expanding town with new developments most prominent around the marina. The list size of the practice is over 16,300 and is gradually rising.
Patient Services
We provide a comprehensive range of services to our patients in a friendly and efficient setting. These include:
• Routine surgeries by appointment and home visiting
• Maternity care
• Child health surveillance
• Minor surgery
• Travel advice and immunisation including yellow fever
• Health promotion
• Chronic disease management programmes including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke and hypertension
• Specialist consultant clinics, including ear, nose and throat, urology, gynaecology , and community paediatric clinics.
• Counselling
• Out of hours - on 1st November 2004 the out of hours was taken over by North Somerset Primary Care Trust and is accessed by phoning the practice telephone number
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