Updated 14 September 2020
Dental and Medical Clinic in Barking is located at 98 Longbridge Road, Barking IG11 8SF. It provides a wide range of medical and dental services from a self-contained building in Barking town centre. Services are provided on a private, fee paying basis only and the majority of the service’s patients originate from Eastern European countries. The service is provided by Klinika Limited which also operates a clinic in Palmers Green, north London. This location is separately registered with the CQC and was not visited as part of this inspection.
The provider’s website can be found at: www.klinika.co.uk.
The service opens seven days a week from 9am to 7pm. Services offered include general medicine, blood tests, family planning, electrocardiogram and ultrasound scanning. Dental services are also provided from this location but were not reviewed as part of this inspection.
The service is overseen by a Registered Manager who oversees the day to day functions. A registered manager is a person who is registered with the CQC to manage the service. Like registered providers, they are ‘registered persons’. Registered persons have legal responsibility for meeting the requirements in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and associated Regulations about how the service is run.
There is a multidisciplinary team consisting of 11 GPs with varying specialisms and 13 other staff including dentists, nurses and administrative/reception staff.
Dental and Medical Clinic in Barking is registered to provide the following registered activities: Diagnostic and screening procedures, Family planning services, Surgical procedures and Treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
How we inspected this service
We asked the service to provide documentation demonstrating the steps they had taken to address the concerns we identified at the previous inspection. We also reviewed the information we hold about the service as part of this inspection.