Littlefield is situated at the heart of Grimsby, a town well known for its past history as the world’s premier fishing port. The fishing industry has been in a steady decline since the 'Cod Wars' of the 1970s and no longer has its own trawler fleet. Grimsby is now recognised as the 'food town' of Europe, processing and freezing more food than anywhere else in the Continent, providing jobs lost through the demise of the fishing industry. Our premises are found in the Freshney Green Primary Care Centre, a state of the art building completed in 2009 by Assura. Freshey Green was the result of the combined efforts between Care Trust Plus, Littlefield and two other local practices, Field House and Woodford Medical Centres (which have now merged into Woodfield Medical Centre), to bring into one building an array of services and provide the best possible care for its patients.

The practice serves a population of 5,500 patients and the building itself serves 32,000 people, around a fifth of the total population of North East Lincolnshire. The premises house a number of different health professionals including district nurses, and primary care mental-health professionals. Other services available include physiotherapy, podiatry, dentistry, pharmacy, minor-operations suite, smoking cessation, audiology and ultrasound.

We have four Partners and one part time Salaried GP, who are all heavily involved in training. Through our Partnership with HYMS (Humber and Yorkshire Medical School), the Deanery and two Universities in Holland, we train in-house: registrars, Foundation Year 2, Lift Trainees, Year 5 and Dutch Medical Students.

The demography of the practice population is similar to Local and National distributions. Although we are based close the town centre, our population extends to the villages immediately adjacent to Grimsby and Cleethorpes and includes Patients who live in recognised deprived areas of both towns.

We are part of the Freshney Pelham Primary Care Network (PCN), which is formed by Littlefield, Woodfield Medical Centre and Pelham Medical Group. Our PCN also runs Freshney Pelham Care Ltd which employ the District Nurses serving our population, as well as three primary care Mental Health Workers, a Paramedic, a Dietitian, two Health and Well-being Coaches, a Social Prescriber, a Physiotherapist and a group of care coordinators.

All the practices in our PCN use EMIS Web as the clinical system of choice.

The whole team welcomes external evaluation as a way of keeping us on ‘our toes’ and measuring our performance against nationally set standards. We are constantly looking at ways to improve the services to our Patients and actively involve our well established Patient Participation group in service development and changes to systems.

We are actively involved in the Quality and Outcome Framework and have signed up to a whole range of additional National, Local and Direct Enhanced Services.