Friern Barnet Medical Centre |
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42 Reviews Friern Barnet Medical Centre 16 St.Johns Villas, Friern Barnet Road, N11 3BU Phone : Web :http://www.friernbarnetmed.. Email :. EPS : Available .... CQC : 
Status : Closed
Friern Barnet Medical Centre is a GP Practice in London and provides a list of services listed below if available. This GP practice has 41 reviews with a rating of 3.3 out of 5 and a CQC rating of Good. |
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| The table below is a standard list of gp practice metrics that are complied annually for practices in England. You can use this list to see how Friern Barnet Medical Centre is doing in areas that may be important to you. |
| Health Metric | Detail | Indicator |
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| Cervical Screening Ages 25 to 49 | 1,104 individuals have been screened out of a possible 1,881 eligible people.A total of 58.7% of possible patients have been screened which is below the 80% requirement. The GP practice needs to sceen another 401 people to hit the required 80% screening target. | 1,104 |
| Cervical Screening Ages 50 to 64 | 641 individuals have been screened out of a possible 879 eligible people.A total of 72.9% of possible patients have been screened which is below the 80% requirement. The GP practice needs to sceen another 63 people to hit the required 80% screening target. | 641 |
| Overall number of GP appointments | 3,476 Number of appointments in Aug 2023 from a practice list size of 9,749 patients | 3,476 |
| Face to face appointments | 3,150 Face to Face appointments in Aug 2023 which is 90.6% of the total number of appointments. | 3,150 |
| Home Visits | 0 Home Visits in Aug 2023 which is 0% of the total number of appointments. | 0 |
| Telephone appointments | 326 Telephone appointments in Aug 2023 which is 9.4% of the total number of appointments. | 326 |
| Unknown appointments | 0 Unknown appointments in Aug 2023 which is 0% of the total number of appointments. | 0 |
| Video call appointments | 0 Video call appointments in Aug 2023 which is 0% of the total number of appointments. | 0 |
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Patient Reviews
 | By: | Ray W |
| Jul 13 2023 | ||
I’ve always thought the medial professionals at this surgery are excellent. In my opinion the admin staff were the weak link. Just recently this appears to have changed for the better. The staff answering the telephones and manning the reception are first class. I must say, I’m relieved. I’ve been the biggest critic of these guys however, you have to give credit where credit is due. A BIG WELL DONE AND THANK YOU. Ray. ???? | ||||||
| By: | Anonymous |
| Sep 8 2022 | ||
The reception staff let the surgery down. There’s a worrying lack of empathy, communication and people skills are severely lacking. I was registered In the surgery for the last 3years but never been able to meet any doctor! They never answer the phone or make it possible to book an appointment and I am an Asthmatic patient and 44 years old …. Need yearly check for My cholesterol …. And other concerns . | ||||||
 | By: | Anonymous |
| Jul 9 2019 | ||
Having last year joined this Practise, I have rated it 1-star purely because its Appointments-system is not meeting my needs as a patient.
These are the two specific reasons why:
1. The Surgery seems to have a perpetual shortage of available appointments. For example, whenever I look at Patient Access (online), there are usually not any free appointments (which they only release at a maximum 2-weeks beforehand – and so I would usually need to phone in and book at an exact 2-weeks in advance). My only means of possibly getting an appointment at less than 2-weeks-beforehand is to phone first thing in the morning on the day and declare the matter an emergency (and even that requires trying to get ahead of intense competition on the phone-lines first thing in the morning).
When I compare this to the previous London-based GP surgery I was at last year, I could usually always book a (non-emergency) appointment within one week’s timeframe, i.e. there just always seemed to be a greater number of available of appointments all-round.
This would suggest to me either that this Practise is either taking on too high a quantity of patients than they can actively manage, or they are not deploying enough Doctors, thereby creating a perpetual shortage of available appointment slots – which I feel is not fair on the individual patients they serve.
2. The surgery only allows for one appointment, per patient, to be pre-booked at any one time (which usually needs to be booked at an exact two-weeks beforehand due to how slots fully book out).
The problem with only being able to pre-book 1-appointment at a time is that if, at like my age where I have multiple conditions going on, it means that:
A. I have to keep each appointment atleast two weeks apart – which oftentimes feels too far apart for me – because there are times when I feel I need to be seen weekly about my various concerns.
B. As I am having to compress multiple issues into just this one fortnightly appointment slot, it means that I never seem to find enough time during the appointment-slot itself to cover all the various issues I need to talk about (as I am having to compress 2-appointments worth of problems to talk about into just 1 appointment-slot).
Previous surgeries I have been at have allowed for 2 pre-bookable appointments at any one time – which seems a lot more reasonable to me - because it enabled me to organise my appointments such that I could get sufficient GP-time to separately discuss my various concerns on a frequent enough basis. This may be tied to the first point that the Practise could be taking on too many patients than they can successfully provide sufficient appointment-availability for.
I would like to see the Surgery atleast allow for over 65s and children under 12 to be allowed to have 2 pre-bookable appointments – i.e. for anyone in vulnerable categories to get the frequent enough attention they feel they need. | ||||||
