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SDHC Service Highlights - April 2025
Delivering Quality Care and Expanding Access
As a social enterprise, we are committed to reinvesting the income generated from our private GP services into enhancing the quality and accessibility of NHS Services within our community.
By choosing our private services, you help support a model that drives improvements in care delivery, expands access to vital services, and ensures we can continue offering the highest possible standard of care.

Extended Access Service
SDHC successfully delivered 1,273 appointments to patients, ensuring timely access to care:
- 215 face-to-face appointments
- 1058 telephone consultations
Without this service, patients indicated they would have sought alternative forms of care:
- 45% would not have sought medical assistance
- 33% would have called 111
- 22% would have attended Urgent Treatment Centres or A&E
Care Home Out-of-Hours (OOH) Service
The Care Home OOH service provided 214 consultations for care home residents, resulting in significant system-wide benefits:
- 208 calls to 111 avoided
- 14 calls to 999 avoided
- 12 potential hospital admissions prevented
Top reasons for consultations:
- Medication management (24%)
- Complex frailty care (23%)
- Dermatology (19%)
- Urology concerns (10%)
- Palliative Care (4%)


Vaccination Campaigns: COVID-19 and Flu
Our vaccination Campaign efforts made a significant impact on community health: Total in April – 5625
- Outreach off-site clinics (2672)
- Total Care Home (681)
- People with Immunosuppression and at clinical risk (354)
- Total Housebound (328)
- Pregnancy (3)
Urgent Primary Care
SDHC has been actively supporting ESHT’s UTC with GP capacity, contributing to alleviating the pressures faced by both the A&E department and the onsite UTC.
Total Consultations Delivered in April: 197
Published: May 9, 2025