About Us

Barndoc was established in August 1996 operating initially from Finchley Memorial Hospital with 7 practices and 24 principal GPs. In 2007 Barndoc GP members voted to establish a new for profit company, Barndoc Healthcare Ltd., to work alongside the existing company. All profit made by Barndoc is reinvested in improving patient services and care.

Barndoc now has over 160 clinical and non-clinical workers and staff that provide out of hours care to over 1.4million residents of Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Camden and Islington. We have a focus on local care for local people and all of our team work either for us directly or split their time between local practices and Barndoc.

Patients access our service via 111, a service provided by neighbouring healthcare providers. If they decide that your clinical needs cannot wait until your GP practice is next open, they may pass your case to Barndoc. Depending on your symptoms, a GP or nurse will carry out a further assessment. This may result in self care advice, referral to another service such as A&E, or the offer of an appointment to be seen by a doctor or nurse at one of our bases. Barndoc has also been commissioned by NCL CCGs to run Cricklewood GP Health Centre and a Referral Support Service on their behalf..

Barndoc has three sites that patients from Barnet, Enfield and Haringey can attend to be seen by the GP or Nurse on duty: Finchley Memorial Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, and The Laurels.

In the a National Audit report on Out of Hours services, Barndoc was rated 17th out of a possible 67 other comparable out of hours services. 92% of patients that use our services tell us they are very satisfied or satisfied with our service and we regularly have positive feedback from patients.

Robust Clinical Governance arrangements are in place to ensure that high quality services are safe and well maintained. Barndoc has a Patient Participation Group which reviews the development of our services to patients.

There are many challenges facing the NHS and Barndoc, most recently of course the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We have worked hard to create a COVID secure environment for all our staff, workers and patients with barriers and appropriate personal protective equipment. Despite this, we will continue to work with commissioners to ensure the best possible standards of patient care while giving value for money without compromising on quality.

Alan Levett

Chief Operating Officer
April 2020