Our Services

Great Chapel Street Medical Centre provides primary care to homeless people. It's services include GP, nursing and psychiatric clinics. Specialist substance use nursing services, dentistry, podiatry, counselling and general housing/benefit advice is also available. Preventative healthcare in the form of hepatitis B vaccinations and hepatitis screening is a key innovative development. Its practice has led to the award of Beacon Status.

The Team

Since its creation Great Chapel Street has been working towards a comprehensive way of tackling the needs of the homeless and putting the emphasis on access to services; reducing health inequality by looking at patients social and health circumstances and by placing them at the centre of the service provision. We also acknowledge the need to continue to provide health care services to those who lead a transient lifestyle.

The Client Group

 The homeless adult population in Westminster, those who are rough-sleeping, are at risk of or have significant history of, or are resident in a hostel in Westminster, or in a boundary area. A wide range of clients: entrenched rough sleepers, clients with a significant history of rough sleeping, clients who may become entrenched rough sleepers, hostel, refuge and night shelter residents in Westminster or boundary areas, failed asylum seekers in Westminster, irregular and undocumented migrants, people who have recently left institutions such as local authority care, the armed forces or prison and who are at risk of rough sleeping.

  We work holistically towards tackling health inequality and targeting a variety of multiple complex needs of a wide group of adult homeless vulnerable clients in Westminster. 

General Practitioners

General Practitioner Services

·        Dr. Simon Ramsden, MA, MD, MB, BS, MRCP, MRCGP - Senior Physician.

·        Dr. Philip Reid, BA (OXON), MB, BS, MRCP, MRCGP, DRCOG - General Practitioner.

·        Dr. Angela Sharma, BSC, MBC,HB, MRCGP, DCH, DRCOG - General Practitioner.

·        Dr. Satyen Singhai, MBChB, MRCGP, DFMB, MFFLM - General Practitioner.

Psychiatric Services

·        Dr.  Saleh Alfulaij Visiting Psychiatrist [Specialist Registrar with the West End Community Mental Health Team] MBBS MRCP, MRCPsych.

·        Dr. Noel Collins [Specialist Registrar with the Joint Homeless Team] MBBS (Hons.) MRCPsych, DGM, PGCert Med Ed.

Dentistry

·        Mr. Cyril Brazil, MSc - Dental Surgeon.

·        Ms. Farah Askaridoust - Dental Nurse.

Nursing

·        Ms. Catriana Barr, BSC (Hons), RGN - Practice Nurse.

·        Ms. Christine Dawson, NZ RCpN (Diploma).

  Substance Use/Mental Health Nursing Services

·        Mr. Kieran Quirke, BA, RMN Clinical Nurse Specialist (Substance Misuse) –on secondment at the Early Intervention Team (EIT) and the London School of Economics (LSE).

·        Ms. Gráinne Brown R.M.N. CPN (dip) Clinical Nurse Specialist (Substance Misuse) – seconded from the South Paddington CMHT in March 2009.

Counselling Services

·        Mr. John Conolly UKCP Registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist — Lead Counsellor for the Westminster Homeless Health Team (HHT).

Podiatry

·        Ms. Alison Gardiner BSc, MSCh, SRCh  – Specialist Podiatrist for Homeless and Vulnerable People, Central London Community Healthcare.

Social advocacy/Housing and Benefits Advice Services

·        Mr. Nicolás Vial-Montero, Abogado, DipPJ, MA – Primary Health Care Manager

·        Ms. Zoe Simmons – The London Homeless Services Team, from the Department of Work and Pensions.

Administration

·        Mr. Robert Bolus BComm - Practice Manager

·        Ms. Alison Marks - Receptionist and Secretary