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Gatacre Street Surgery

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Gatacre Street, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 1HD

Provided and run by:
Railway Medical Group

Important: The provider of this service changed - see old profile

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Our current view of the service

Good

Updated 18 February 2025

Date of Assessment: Site visit on 11 March 2025. Gatacre Street Surgery is a GP practice and delivers service to 27 000 people under a contract held with NHS England. The National General Practice Profiles states that the ethnicity of people that use this service were 97.41% white and the remainder was made up of varying proportions of people from ethnic minority groups. Information published by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities shows that deprivation within the practice population group is in the lower decile (2 of 10). The lower the decile, the more deprived the practice population is relative to others. This assessment considered the demographics of the people using the service, the context the service was working within and how this impacted service delivery. Where relevant, further commentary is provided in the quality statements section of this report.

People were involved in decisions about their care. The service provided information people could understand. People knew how to give feedback and were confident the service took it seriously and acted on it. People received fair and equal care and treatment. The service worked to reduce health and care inequalities through training and feedback. People were involved in planning their care and understood options around choosing to withdraw or not receive care.

This focused assessment was carried out to review the key question of ‘are services responsive’, which was rated as requires improvement at the last inspection. At this assessment we have rated ‘are services responsive’ as good.

People's experience of the service

Updated 18 February 2025

People were positive about the quality of their care and treatment. Recent survey results, including from the National GP Patient Survey and the NHS Friends and Family Test, showed people were satisfied with services. In the most recent GP Patient Survey, 71% of people had a good overall experience at this practice and this was close to the England average of 74% and 77% for the Integrated Care System (ICS).