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COVID VACCINATION PROGRESS:

Please see our latest ‘Patient Vaccination Dashboard’ www.oakfieldhealthcentre.co.uk/info.aspx?p=13
If you are in groups 1-7 and haven’t been contacted and would like your covid vaccination please contact us by calling reception or emailing in to oakfield.practice@nhs.net
Please note the dashboard does not reflect patients who have declined.
Please see our Vaccination Clinic Patient Experience: https://fb.watch/4qfODW_F8U/

 

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CQC STATEMENT OF PURPOSE 

This is a Statement of Purpose for the Oakfield Surgery which sets out the following information:

  • The full name of the service provider and of any registered manager together with their business address, telephone number and where available, electronic email addresses.
  • The legal status of the service provider.
  • Details of the locations at which the services provided for the purposes of the regulated activity carried on.
  • Our aims and objectives in carrying on the regulated activity.
  • The kinds of services provided for the purpose of carrying on of the regulated activity.
  • The range of service users needs which those services are intended to meet.

 

The Oakfield Surgery is a General Practice Partnership open to all patients living within our Practice boundary in Gravesend and the surrounding areas.  We work in partnership with our patients and out Patient Forum to provide medical care for our patients.

 

We are a General Medical Services (GMS) Practice offering Primary Care services for the diagnosis and prevention of disease.  We help patients to manage their health and prevent illness.  Our GPs assess, diagnose, treat and manage illness.  They carry out screening for some diseases and promote general health and wellbeing.  Our GPs act as a patient's advocate, supporting and representing a patient's best interests to ensure they receive the best and most appropriate health and/social care.  Our GPs also provide the link to further health services and work closely with other healthcare colleagues.  They may also arrange hospital admissions and referrals to other services and specialists and they link with secondary and community services about patient care, taking advice and sharng information where nedeed.  They also collect and record important information from other healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of our patients.

 

Our GPs are also involved in the education and training of doctors, practice staff and other healthcare professionals.

 

LOCATION:

The Practice main address is:

Oakfield Health Centre

Off Windsor Road

Gravesend

Kent DA12 5BW

 

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Delivering safer, better quality care, at all times.

 

VISION

To work in partnership with our patients and staff to provide the best Primary Care services possible working within local and national governance, guidance and regulations.

 

OUR AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

  • To provide high quality, safe, professional Primary Health Care General Practice services to our patients.
  • To focus on prevention of disease by promoting health and wellbeing and offering care and advice to our patients.
  • To work in partnership with our patients, their families and carers towards a positive experience and understanding, involving them in decision making about their treatment and care.
  • To be a learning organisation that continually improves what we are able to offer patients.
  • To treat patients as individuals and with the same respect we would want for ourselves or a member of our families, listening and supporting people to express their needs and wants and enabling people to maintain the maximum possible level of independence, choice and control.
  • To work in partnership with other agencies to tackle the causes of, as well as provide the treatment for ill health and where appropriate involve other professionals in the care of our patients.
  • To encourage our patients to communicate with us by joining our Patient Forum, talking to us, participating in surveys and feeding back on the services that we offer.
  • To ensure all staff have the competency and motivation to deliver the required standards of care ensuring that all members of the team have the right skills and training to carry our their duties competently.
  • To take care of our staff offering them support to do their jobs and to protect them against abuse.
  • Have a zero tolerance of all forms of abuse.
  • To provide our patients and staff with an environment which is safe and friendly.
  • To operate on a financially sound basis.

 

OUR SERVICES

The services provided by our GPs are defined under the Standard Personal Medical Services Contract.  These services are mainly split into three groups:

  • Essential
  • Additional
  • Enhanced

 

ESSENTIAL SERVICES

We provide essential services for people who have health conditions from which they are expected to recover, chronic disease management and general management of terminally ill patients.

Our core services include:

 GP, Nurse and HCA (Healthcare Assistant) Consultations

  • Asthma reviews
  • Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease reviews
  • Coronary Heart Disease reviews
  • Diabetes Clinics 

 

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Our additional services include:

  • Cervical Cytology Screening
  • Contraceptive Services - coil fitting and contraceptive implants
  • Child Health Surveillance
  • Certain Minor Surgery Procedures
  • Vaccinations and Immunisations

 

ENHANCED SERVICES

Our enhanced services include:

  • Childhood Vaccinations and Immunisations
  • Contraceptive Coil Fitting (IUD) - Mirena
  • Fittings for treatment of Menorraghia
  • Diabetes Management
  • Prostate Cancer Injection Therapy
  • Extended Minor Surgery
  • Flu Immunisation
  • Minor Injury Service
  • Cryotherapy
  • 24 hour and 7 day BP/ECG

 

OTHER SERVICES

Our Practice also offers services including:

  • Child Health and Development
  • Dressings Clinics
  • ECGs (electrical heart trace)
  • End of Life Care
  • Lung Testing (spirometry)
  • Medication Review
  • Men's Health
  • Mental Health
  • Pregancy Testing and Contraceptive Advice
  • Ring Pessary Replacement
  • Stop Smoking Support
  • Travel Advice
  • Women's Health
  • INR Management and Warfarin
  • Phlebotomy Service

 

NON-NHS SERVICES

Our Practice also provides services which are non-NHS and are paid for by the patient.  These services include:

  • Insurance Claim Forms
  • Non-NHS Vaccinations
  • Prescription for Taking Medicine Abroad
  • Private Sick Notes
  • Pre-employment and HGV Medicals
  • Vaccination Certificates

 

 

 

 

 



 
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