Portsmouth Health Limited

Joint Venture with GP consortia and Care UK delivers a much needed new walk-in centre for the community of Portsmouth

PHL is a consortia of GPs from Portsmouth and Hampshire, working jointly with CareUK (who also run the St. Mary’s Treatment Centre), and Ashley House Plc, a significant provider of primary care premise solutions, and clinical services provider.

The centre is to be located at 27 Guildhall Walk in the centre of Portsmouth, and will be known as the Guildhall Walk Medical Centre. The centre will commence operating on the 1st July 2009.

The day to day service delivery of the centre will be managed by Care UK. The contract has been let as an APMS contract which runs for five years. The premises are to be leased from the PCT.

The Medical Centre will operate as a normal GP practice plus provide a ‘walk-in’ service to all members of the general public. It will be open from 8.00am to 8.00pm seven days per week. At inception it will have a zero list size, but the expectation is that the list size will grow to approximately 4000 over the life of the contract. Whilst the centre will be open to all members of the public it is intended that there will be a particular focus on the marginalized and hard to reach patient groups within Portsmouth. The practice boundary will be concurrent with that of  Portsmouth City Teaching PCT.