Babylon GP at Hand Opens Two News Clinics For London Patients
17 MAY 2022
Babylon GP at Hand opens two new clinics in London to provide face-to-face appointments alongside its digital-first integrated care already available to over 100k patients.
Dean Farrar Street clinic, based in the heart of Victoria, London opened its doors last week and will be followed by the opening of Drummond Street clinic, in Euston, London next month.
The two new London clinics will provide patients with more space, facilities, and appointment availability for those that need face-to-face appointments.
Each clinic will include: Advanced Nurse Practitioners, GPs, Healthcare Assistants, Phlebotomists, Physiotherapists, Practice nurses and Practice team
LONDON, UK — May 2022 – Babylon GP at Hand has opened two new clinics situated in London that will provide patients with face-to-face appointments alongside its digital-first integrated care. Expanding access to quality care and responding to increasing patient demand, the London GP at Hand clinics open their doors with a variety of NHS clinicians, practice nurses and Health Care Assistants to provide customised in-person care.
Located within the heart of Victoria and St James, Dean Farrar Street, opened its doors last week to GP at Hand patients. Fitted with state-of-the-art equipment for in-clinic and digital consultations, the upgraded clinic provides patients with more space, appointment availability and a variety of clinician types. Following the opening of Dean Farrar Street, the next clinic to open will be Drummond Street, in Euston, London, next month. Both clinics will host a bright and airy space, along with opening hours from 08.00 - 20.00 Monday - Friday and 09.00 - 18.00 Saturday.
Dr Matthew Noble, Babylon’s UK Medical Director said: “In-person care is so important alongside highly-accessible digital appointments and we are really excited to launch these two new clinics for our Babylon GP at Hand patients in London. We’ve seen a rise in the number of appointments and we are responding to this demand by opening two new clinics in convenient locations that will increase access to quality care when needed, while helping to minimise unnecessary GP visits, receive personalised attention as needed, and provide dedicated clinician time for the patients that need them most”.
Babylon GP at Hand is digital-first, meaning that all patients must have a digital appointment before potentially being invited in for a face-to-face appointment, with exceptions where patients will be invited to the clinic for flu jabs, smear tests etc.
Since November 2017 over 113,000 people across London and Birmingham have registered with Babylon GP at Hand. This mix of virtual and in person care has been proven to relieve the UK’s overstretched healthcare system, with peer-reviewed research finding that Babylon’s partnership with the NHS reduced A&E attendance by 25% after members joined the service, and acute hospital costs were between 15-35% less than the regional average. By combining virtual services with in-person care at the Westminster and Euston GP at Hand clinics, Babylon is re-engineering how people engage with their care at every step of the healthcare continuum. Babylon has already shown that in environments as diverse as the developed UK or developing Rwanda, urban New York or rural Missouri, for children on Medicaid, or the elderly on Medicare, it is possible to achieve its mission by leveraging its highly scalable, digital-first platform combined with high quality, virtual clinical operations to provide integrated, personalised healthcare.
About Babylon
Babylon is one of the world’s fastest growing digital healthcare companies whose mission is to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for every person on Earth. Babylon is re-engineering how people engage with their care at every step of the healthcare continuum. By flipping the model from reactive sick care to proactive healthcare through the devices people already own, it offers millions of people globally ongoing, always-on care.
Babylon has already shown that in environments as diverse as the developed UK or developing Rwanda, urban New York or rural Missouri, for people of all ages, it is possible to achieve its mission by leveraging its highly scalable, digital-first platform combined with high quality, virtual clinical operations to provide integrated, personalized healthcare. Founded in 2013, Babylon’s technology and clinical services is supporting a global patient network across 15 countries, and is capable of operating in 16 languages. And through a combination of its value-based care model, Babylon 360, and its work in primary care through NHS GP at Hand, Babylon managed over 440k lives globally from the start of 2022.
In 2021 alone, Babylon helped a patient every 6 seconds, with approximately 5.2 million consultations and AI interactions. Importantly, this was achieved with a 93% user retention rate in our NHS GP at Hand service and 4 or 5 star ratings from more than 90% of our users across all of our geographies.
Babylon is also working with governments, health providers, employers and insurers across the globe to provide them with a new infrastructure that any partner can use to deliver high-quality healthcare with lower costs and better outcomes. For more information, please visit: www.babylonhealth.com.
Notes:
Babylon GP at Hand, Victoria
Address: Heron House, 10 Dean Farrar St, London SW1H 0DX
Replacing: South Westminster Centre for Health, 82 Vincent Square, Westminster
SW1P 2PF
Opening date: 25th April 2022
Directions: We are based on Dean Farrer Street in between Herron House and The Sanctuary House Hotel. There’s a blue GP at Hand sign outside the clinic.
Babylon GP at Hand, Euston
Address: 184, Drummond St, London NW1 2HN
Replacing: King’s Cross BUPA Health Centre, Battle Bridge House
Opening date: 9th May 2022
Directions: We are based on the corner of Drummond Street and Stanhope Street. There’s a blue GP at Hand sign outside the clinic.