Statement of Purpose

Provider Details

The name and address of the registered provider is:

Cheadle Hulme Medical Group
Cheadle Hulme Health Centre
Smithy Green
Hulme Hall Road
Cheadle Hulme
Cheadle
SK8 6LU

Telephone: 0161 983 5300
Email: gmicb-sto.p88007admin@nhs.net
Website: www.cheadlehulmeandbridgehouse.nhs.uk

CQC Provider ID: 1-199786596
CQC Registered Manager: Dr Keith Richardson

This provider operates as a partnership.

About the Practice

Cheadle Hulme Medical Group comprises 8 GP Partners based across 2 sites and looks after approximately 14,800 patients. Both premises are situated in Cheadle Hulme. The primary site is Cheadle Hulme Health Centre at Smithy Green, a purpose-built health centre established in the 1960s. The branch site is Bridge House Medical Centre in central Cheadle Hulme, a traditional building over three floors.

Both sites have car parks. Disabled patients can access the practice via the main entrance at Smithy Green and via a ramp at the front entrance at Bridge House. Disabled parking is available at both sites and disabled toilet facilities are available at the Smithy Green site.

The Practice is part of the Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Primary Care Network and provides Enhanced Access services through the network.

Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives of Cheadle Hulme Medical Group are to:

Provide a high standard of safe, evidence-based medical care.
Provide continuity of care through a personal list system and a GP partner-led practice.
Listen to patients and respond to their needs through patient-centred decision making and clear communication.
Treat all patients and staff with dignity, respect, kindness, and honesty.
Provide equitable and inclusive access for all patients.
Ensure a safe and effective service and environment.
Maintain a high quality of care through continuous learning, training, and reflective practice.
Provide a high-quality training environment that delivers education to undergraduate and postgraduate doctors and other clinical staff.
Use clinical audit and significant event learning to drive continuous improvement.
Act with integrity and uphold confidentiality.
Maintain and develop a motivated and skilled team in line with diversity and equality principles.
Maintain effective and robust information governance systems.
Participate in NIHR-portfolio and commercial clinical research delivered to Good Clinical Practice standards.

Our purpose is to provide our patients with personal health care of high quality and to seek continuous improvement of the health status of the practice population. The Practice aims to achieve this by maintaining a positive working environment that is responsive to patient needs and expectations and that reflects the latest advances in primary health care.

Primary Healthcare Team

GP Partners

Dr Keith Richardson
Dr Patrick Connolly
Dr John Vrahimides
Dr Rachel Hudson
Dr Laura Eaton
Dr Noshaba Ahmed
Dr Hassan Farooq
Dr Katie Locksedge

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Sue Worthington

Diabetic Specialist Nurse

Jackie Price

Practice Nurses

Catriona Mackinlay (Advanced Clinical Practitioner)
Jennifer Pickering
Hannah Lavender
Sarah Daly (Nurse Associate)

Health Care Assistants

Aakifa Abdullah
Olivia Nother

Practice Staff

Siobhan Lennox, Business Manager – responsible for the financial management and strategic direction of the Practice and overall leadership of all non-clinical functions and the practice management team.
Jo Bayes, Practice Manager – responsible for the operational management of the Practice, premises, and regulatory functions.
Christina Gregory, Training and Development Manager – responsible for the training and development of staff, the management of workflow, and supporting staff wellbeing.

The secretarial team processes referrals and responds to patient enquiries concerning communications between the Practice and other agencies.

The administrative team is responsible for all reception activity, including answering the telephones, booking appointments, preparing prescription requests, updating and summarising patients’ medical records, workflow optimisation, online consultation workflow, patient-safety monitoring, and recall.

All members of staff are happy to assist patients with any enquiries.

Regulated Activities under CQC

Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
Diagnostic and screening procedures
Maternity and midwifery services
Surgical procedures
Family planning

Services Provided

Management of chronic disease

The Practice provides ongoing care for a wide range of long-term conditions. Care is reviewed at least annually, including a structured review of medication. Diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, and respiratory reviews are held throughout the year. The Practice employs a Diabetic Specialist Nurse who holds regular clinics.

General nursing care

The nursing team provides contraceptive services, smoking cessation advice, blood pressure monitoring, travel advice, child and adult vaccinations, and cervical screening.

Maternity services

Antenatal and postnatal care is provided by GPs in conjunction with the community midwife. A midwife-led antenatal clinic is held regularly at Cheadle Hulme Health Centre.

Cervical screening

Cervical screening is delivered in line with the NHS Cervical Screening Programme.

Child Health Surveillance

The 6-8 week postnatal check for mother and baby is provided by a GP, with a follow-up appointment with a Practice Nurse for the baby’s first immunisations.

Women’s Health

Patients can book appointments with GPs and Practice Nurses to discuss women’s health concerns including menopause and HRT. The Practice fits and replaces intrauterine devices for contraception and HRT, ring pessaries, and contraceptive implants.

Minor Surgery

Minor surgery clinics are held regularly. Trained GPs perform minor surgical procedures and joint injections.

Foreign Travel Health Advice

Travel advice and vaccinations are available. Patients should contact the Practice with their destination, date of departure, and duration of stay, and complete a travel vaccination form. Some travel vaccinations incur a charge as not all are funded by the NHS.

Opening Hours and Out-of-Hours Care

The Practice is open Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:30. The Practice is closed at weekends and on Bank Holidays.

When the Practice is closed, urgent medical care is provided by Mastercall, the local NHS-commissioned out-of-hours service, accessed by calling NHS 111. Patients can also access NHS 111 online at 111.nhs.uk. In a life-threatening emergency, patients should dial 999.

Enhanced Access appointments (early morning, evening and Saturdays) are provided through Bramhall and Cheadle Hulme Primary Care Network and are bookable via the Practice.

How Patients Access the Practice

The Practice operates a total triage model. All requests for appointments and clinical advice are reviewed by a clinician, who determines the most appropriate response. This may be a face-to-face appointment, telephone consultation, video consultation, written reply, or signposting to another service. Patients are seen by the most appropriate clinician in the most appropriate timeframe.

Patients can access Practice services through:

Online consultation via the Practice website (AccuRx)
The NHS App for repeat prescriptions, medical record access, and appointment management
Telephone on 0161 983 5300
In person at either site during opening hours

Safeguarding

The Practice has a designated Safeguarding Lead with responsibility for both adult and child safeguarding: Dr Rachel Hudson. All clinical and non-clinical staff complete safeguarding training to the level appropriate to their role, in line with the intercollegiate safeguarding competency frameworks. The Practice works with Stockport’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub and attends safeguarding meetings as required.

Duty of Candour

The Practice complies with Regulation 20 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 - the Duty of Candour. Where a notifiable safety incident occurs, the Practice will inform the affected person promptly, provide a truthful account of what happened, offer an apology, and explain what further enquiries are being made. All such incidents are reviewed through the Practice’s significant event analysis process.

Teaching Practice

Cheadle Hulme Medical Group is a recognised teaching practice and contributes to the training of the future general practice workforce. The Practice provides an approved training environment and placements for GP Specialist Trainees in the final stages of their training, Foundation doctors gaining experience in general practice, and undergraduate medical students at different stages of training. Teaching activity is integrated into clinical work and supports the Practice’s commitment to continuous professional development.

Clinical Research

Cheadle Hulme Medical Group is a research-active practice, accredited as RCGP Research Ready, and contributes to the wider NHS evidence base through participation in clinical research. The Practice delivers studies on the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio in collaboration with the Research Delivery Network (RDN) North West, and also hosts commercial trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and contract research organisations.

All research is conducted in accordance with the principles of Good Clinical Practice, the RCGP Research Ready standards, the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations where applicable, and the requirements of the study sponsor and the relevant Research Ethics Committee. The Practice has a designated Research Lead responsible for the safe and ethical conduct of all studies on site. Patient participation is always voluntary and based on full informed consent. Patients are free to decline or withdraw at any point without affecting their routine NHS care.

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