Statement of Purpose: Index Medical Ltd

Aims and objectives

Index Medical Ltd aims to provide a high quality, private patient healthcare service which includes confidential on-line health assessments and issuing privates prescriptions. Medicine is dispensed by a separate NHS pharmacy.

Our objective is to provide a high quality patient service which meets and exceeds the requirements of the current essential standards and regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) 2010.

Registered provider

The healthcare service is administered from 60 City Road, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8TX. 0117 2050198.

Kinds of healthcare services

Index Medical offers a secure Internet healthcare service, which includes private and confidential online health consultations, individual health advice, and prescribing.

Index Medical Ltd offers online health consultations to provide prescriptions, where prescribing guidelines allow and services can be delivered safely and securely in areas where there is a patient demand.

Such services include malaria prophylaxis, travel medicine including anti-diarrhoeal consultation, male pattern baldness assessment, erectile dysfunction and sexual dysfunction services, antibiotic for conditions such as chlamydia where diagnosis is already proven, contraception including emergency contraception, smoking cessation advice and prescriptions, travel sickness medication, hay fever treatments, flu treatment and prevention, jet lag preventative treatment, the provision of standby treatment for cystitis, and the provision of treatment for recurrent cold sores.

The same principles, policy and procedures will be applied to all consultations carried out by Index Medical Ltd.