Updated 12 September 2019
Leyland Surgery is situated at Westfields on West Paddock in the Leyland area of Preston at PR25 1HR serving a mainly urban population. The building is a purpose-built single-storey health service centre which was renovated and adapted by the practice in 2013 when it moved there. The practice shares the building with a local patient mental health service. The practice provides level access for patients to the building with disabled facilities available, fully automated entrance doors and a reception desk, part of which has been lowered to facilitate wheelchair access. A new extension to the practice has recently been completed and will provide additional consulting rooms and other support facilities. The practice website can be found at www.leylandsurgery.co.uk. There is limited parking provided for patients in the practice car park and the practice is close to public transport.
The practice is part of the Chorley with South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and services are provided under a General Medical Services Contract (GMS) with NHS England.
There are two male GP partners and one female salaried GP. They are assisted by two practice nurses, an advanced clinical practitioner, a clinical pharmacist, two advanced clinical practitioners and two healthcare assistants. A practice business manager, a practice manager, reception supervisor and additional administrative and reception staff also support the practice. The practice is a teaching practice for GPs at different stages of their training and for medical students. The service provider has another practice in the CCG and staff at Leyland can work across both surgeries.
The practice provides services to approximately 5,582 patients. When the practice is closed, patients are able to access out of hours services offered locally by the provider GotoDoc by telephoning 111.
There are lower numbers of patients aged over 65 years of age (19%) than the national average (17%) and higher numbers of patients aged under four years of age (7%) than the national average (6%), otherwise the patient demographics are similar to national figures. Information published by Public Health England rates the level of deprivation within the practice population group as six on a scale of one to ten. Level one represents the highest levels of deprivation and level ten the lowest. The practice has a higher proportion of patients experiencing a long-standing health condition than average practices (56% compared to the national average of 51%). The proportion of patients who are in paid work or full-time education is higher than the national average at 68% compared with 62% and the proportion of patients with an employment status of unemployed is 1%, lower than the local average of 3% and the national average of 4%.
The practice is registered with CQC to provide family planning, maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures, treatment of disease, disorder or injury and diagnostic and screening procedures as their regulated activities.