Practice overview

Farmdene Health Centre is a long-established GP Practice in Farmdene providing primary care healths services to patients in Farmdene, Holmhurst, Hornchurch and the surrounding area. The current list size is over 17,500 patients.

Our team includes six GP partners and 3 salaried GPs as well as practice nurses, health care assistants, nurse practitioners, paramedics and an in-house pharmacist.  They are supported by our practice manager and administrative and reception staff. 

We offer a full general practice service and run specialist clinics for long term conditions, children, pregnant women, and for patients needing minor surgery.  At Farmdene Health Centre we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously and in complete confidence.

We provide our registered patients all core NHS-funded general medical services as well as a number of enhanced medical services and private medical services not funded by the NHS.

Practice history

Farmdene health Centrewas originally built in 1964 and shared the space with another practice. In 2009 we moved to a new purpose built primary care centre that we share with the local community nursing team.

Training practice

Farmdene Health Centre is a training practice for GP registrars - these are  qualified  doctors who are completing their training as a general practitioner. We also provide short placements for medical students from the University of Bristol to support their studies as doctors.

This is an important area of our work and we are grateful for your help in this contribution to the future NHS.  Any Medical student who comes to Farmdene Health Centre will always protect patients confidentiality and as  a patient you will be informed when teaching is taking place and you can choose not to be involved.

All of out doctors work with GP registrars / students when they are here at  Farmdene Health Centre, if however you would prefer them not to be present during your consultation then please inform the doctor at the start of your  consultation.

Car parking and disabled access

Our car park has 15 spaces for patients using the practice for an appointment, which includes parking spaces for blue badge holders.  Further car parking is available in nearby public car parks. We run a parking surveillance system, in which you do have to enter your car registration into an iPad in the surgery if you are attending an appointment.

There is easy access into and within the practice and there is a wheelchair for use in the surgery and separate patient toilet facilities.