Updated 21 August 2019
Dartford East Health Centre is located in Dartford. The surgery has good transport links and there is a pharmacy located nearby.
The provider is registered with CQC to deliver the Regulated Activities; diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning, maternity and midwifery services and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. These are delivered from this site only.
Dartford East Health Centre is situated within the Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and provides services to 14859 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 five GPs, one male and four females. There are two salaried female GPs, three practice nurses, three health care assistants and a phlebotomist. The clinical staff are supported by a management team and admin and reception staff. The practice teaches students who are training to be doctors and has recently been approved to train GPs. Two of the partners are now GP trainers. The practice is part of a federation, which is a wider network of GP practices. It has also joined three other local practices to form a primary care network.
There are higher than average number of patients between the age of 0 - 14 and 30 - 55, and fewer patients aged between 20 – 30 years and over 55 than the national average. The National General Practice Profile states that 7% of the practice population is from an Asian background with a further 8% of the population originating from black, mixed or other non-white ethnic groups. Information published by Public Health England, rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as five, on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. Male life expectancy is 77 years compared to the national average of 79 years. Female life expectancy is 82 years compared to the national average of 83 years.