Updated 26 November 2018
Claremont Medical Centre is a GP practice located in Walthamstow, East London and provides services to approximately 2900 patients. Claremont Medical Centre originally based at 29-31 Claremont Road was destroyed by a fire on 15 October 2016. The practice now provides services to patients from a converted premises next door.
Primary medical care is provided under a General Medical Services (GMS) contract with NHS England and the practice is part of the Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). (GMS is one of the three contracting routes that have been available to enable commissioning of primary medical services).
Claremont Medical Centre is registered as a partnership with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to provide the regulated activities of treatment of disease, disorder or injury, maternity and midwifery services, family planning, surgical procedures and diagnostic and screening procedures from 29-31 Claremont Road Walthamstow London E17 5RJ, however an application was submitted to CQC notifying us of the change of address. The inspection of 16 January 2018 took place at the current location which is 27 Claremont Road, Walthamstow, E17 5RJ.
Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as three on a scale of one to 10. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level 10 the lowest. The practice population age/sex distribution is similar to that of other practices in England. The life expectancy for males and females is 79 years and 83 years respectively.
There are three GP consulting rooms and one practice nurse room. The clinical team is made up of one GP partner (male), a salaried female GP and two long term locums collectively working 12 weekly sessions. The practice used a long-term locum practice nurse to deliver nursing services to patients. They are supported by a full-time practice manager and various reception/administrative staff.
The practice is open between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday with the exception of Wednesday when the practice closes at 8pm and Thursday at 6:30pm. Extended hours appointments are offered on Wednesday between 6pm and 8pm. Pre-bookable appointments can be booked up to four weeks in advance; urgent appointments as well as telephone consultations are also available daily. Out of hours services are delivered by another provider which is detailed in the practice leaflet, posters at reception and can be directly accessed by calling the practice telephone number.