Below we present what the NHS Choices website says about the fourteen registered GP practices in E7.
The 14, between them, have 77,265 registered patients and employ 47 GPs - 18 female and 29 male.
The NHS Choices site provides some performance data, much gained from patients' surveys, we feature a couple of those fields in the details below.
It should be stressed that these tables reflect patient feedback, not medical competence, of which we have no knowledge or experience upon which to comment.
Nor do the tables directly refer to the premises from which the GPs work, although it is clear from many of the photos below that there is a great variation in their appearances. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the scruffier looking surgeries tend to fare worst in the feedback tables.
We have created a table concerning two of the patients' feedback concerns; the first shows the percentage of patients attached to the surgery who would recommend the practice to friends and family.
The second indicates the percentage of patients who are satisfied with the practice's surgery hours (details of these, for each practice, can be found via the links below).
As far as the patient recommendation table is concerned, NHS Choices, in addition to showing a percentage recommendation figure for each practice, indicate how that figure compares with the national average.
Unfortunately, the site does not state what the national average approval percentage figure is, but it indicates whether a surgery's performance is: among the best nationally (in top 25% of ratings of all surgeries), mid range nationally (within the middle 50% of practice percentages, nationally), or among the worst, nationally (within the lowest 25% approval ratings nationally).
Forest Gate's surgeries, on the whole do not fare well, as the table, ranked in descending order, indicates:
Patients who would recommend the practice (%)
Claremont - 79.4%
Woodgrange - 70.0%
The two surgeries, above, are mid range, nationally in their recommendation rating. The 12 surgeries below are defined as among the worst, nationally.
Driver - 66.1%
Krishnamurthy - 65.3%
Swedan - 64.6%
Bapna - 63.5%
Shrewsbury Road - 63.4%
Yesufa - 62.9%
Abiola - 62.5%
Driver - 66.1%
Birchdale Road - 56.6%
Mahmud - 53.5%
Shanker - 44.7%
Boleyn Road - 35%
Patients satisfied with surgery hours (%)
Claremont - 84.1%
Birchdale Road - 83%
Woodgrange - 82.6%
Bapna - 82.1%
Yesufa - 79.4%
Krishnamurthy - 76.9%
Abiola - 62.5%
Mahmud - 71.7%
Driver - 71.2%
Swedan - 71%
Patel - 71%
Shrewsbury Road - 69.6%
Shanker - 66.4%
Boleyn Road - 56.9%
Star ratings (out of 5) - average given by patients
Abiola - 4.5
Claremont - 4.5
Woodgrange - 4
Patel - 3.5
Swedan - 3.5
Bapna - 3
Mahmud - 3
Driver - 3
Shanker - 3
Birchdale Road - 2
Krishnamurthy - 2
Shrewsbury Road - 2
Yesufa - 2
Boleyn Road - 1.5
Far more information about individual practices can be accessed via this link.
Forest Gate Practices:in order defined by NHS Choices:
P Abiola, 121 Woodgrange Road, E7 0EP. Tel: 020 8250 7550
Registered patients: 3,761
GPs in practice: 2 (1 female, 1 male)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Learning disability health check
62.5% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
75.3% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
4.5 Star rating (out of 5): (based on 18 surgery review responses)
Govind Bapna, 511 Katherine Road E7 8DR. Tel: 020 8472 7029
Registered patients: 1,084
GPs in practice: 1 (1 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Learning disability health check
63.5% of patients would recommend the practice (among worst, nationally)
82.1% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Birchdale Road Medical Centre, 2 Birchdale Rd, E7 8AR. Tel: 020 8472 1600
Registered patients: 3,285
GPs in practice: 2 (1 f, 1 m)
Special services: Learning disability health check
56.6% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
83% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Boleyn Rd Practice (Dr S Rafiq), 162 Boleyn Rd, E7 9QJ. Tel: 020 8503 5656
Registered patients:7,226
GPs in practice: 2 (2 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Child health and development; Child immunisation, Drug and alcohol services, Long acting, reversible, contraception; Smoking cessation Travel health and Yellow Fever
35% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
56.9% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Claremont Clinic, 459 - 463 Romford Rd E7 8AB. Tel: 020 8522 0222
Registered patients: 8,719
GPs in practice: 6 (3 f, 3 m)
Special services: Anti-coagulent monitoring and dosing; Child health and development - Baby clinic; Child immunisation; Minor surgery (e.g. removal of moles and skin lesions); Obsesity management; Physiotherapy; Primary care counselling (CBT); Smoking cessation; Travel health and Yellow Fever
79.4% of patients would recommend the practice (mid range, nationally)
84.1% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Dr DK Mahmud and Dr SW Rahman, 45, Westbury Rd, E7 8BU. Tel: 020 8472 4128
Registered patients: 4,199
GPs in practice: (1 f, 2 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Baby clinic, with health visitor; COPD clinic with spirometry; Diabetes clinic; Learning disability health check, Travel health, without Yellow Fever
53.5% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
71.7% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Dr CM Patel, 2 Jepson Road, E7 8LZ. Tel: 020 8470 6429
Registered patients: 2,112
GPs in practice: 2 (1 f, 1 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Child health and development; Child immunisation; Learning disability health check; Primary care counselling service; Travel clinic, without Yellow Fever
62.1% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
68.6% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Dr Swedan and Partner, Little Lister Health Centre, 121 Woodgrange Rd, E7 0EP. Tel: 020 8250 7530
Registered patients: 3,121
GPs in practice: 3 (2 f, 1 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Baby clinic with health visitor; Child immunisation; COPD clinic with spirometry; Learning disability health check; Long-acting, reversible contraception; Minor surgery (e.g. removal of moles and skin lesions); Primary care counselling service; Smoking cessation clinic; Travel health, without Yellow Fever
64.6 % of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
71 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Driver and Partners, Little Lister Health Centre, 121 Woodgrange Rd, E7 0EP. Tel: 020 8250 7510
Registered patients: 6,930
GPs in practice: 4 (2 f, 2 m)
Special services: Learning disability health check
66.1% of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
71.2% of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
T Krishnamurthy, East Ham Memorial Hospital, Shrewsbury Road, E7 8QR. Tel: 020 8250 6555
Registered patients: 2,006
GPs in practice: 2 (2 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Child health and development; Child immunisations; COPD clinic with spirometry; Minor surgery (e.g. removal of moles and skin lesions); Primary care counselling service; Smoking cessation clinic; Travel health, without Yellow Fever
65.3 % of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
79.6 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
PD Shanker and Partners, 75 - 77 Upton Lane, E7 9PB. Tel: 020 8471 6912
Registered patients: 7,240
GPs in practice: 4 (1 f, 3 m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Learning disability health check
44.7 % of patients would recommend the practice (among the worst, nationally)
66.4 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Shrewsbury Road Surgery, Shrewsbury Rd, E7 8QP. Tel: 020 8586 5111
Registered patients: 12,848
GPs in practice: 5 (2f, 3m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Child health and development; Child immunisations; COPD clinic with spirometry; Minor surgery (e.g. removal of moles and skin lesions); Travel health, without Yellow Fever
63.4 % of patients would recommend the practice
69.6 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Woodgrange Medical Practice, 40 Woodgrange Road, E7 0QH. Tel: 020 8221 3100/3128
Registered patients: 12,317
GPs in practice: 11 (4f, 7m)
Special services: Asthma clinic; Child health and development; Learning disability health check
70.0 % of patients would recommend the practice (mid range, nationally)
82.6 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
A Yesufa, East Ham Memorial Building, Shrewsbury Road, E7 8QR. Tel: 020 8552 2299
Registered patients: 2,417
GPs in practice: 1 (1 m)
Special services: Child immunisation
62.9 % of patients would recommend the practice (among worst, nationally)
79.4 % of patients satisfied with surgery opening hours
Footnote: For further information about each of these surgeries, visit here .
