Cinnamon Healthcare

Cinnamon Healthcare operates from 85 Great Portland Street in London, holding CQC registration as a GP practice, within the London region. The registered provider is DLV Medical Ltd, the legal entity accountable to the regulator for the quality and safety of care delivered here.

A GP practice is the front door of the NHS: general practitioners diagnose and treat the full range of physical and mental health conditions, manage long-term illnesses such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension, and act as the gateway to specialist hospital care through the referral system. Cinnamon Healthcare operates within this system, with every GP registered and revalidated by the General Medical Council and the practice itself inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Beyond the ten-minute consultation, a modern practice is a small healthcare ecosystem. Practice nurses run immunisation, cervical screening, wound care and chronic disease clinics; clinical pharmacists handle medication reviews; and many practices employ physiotherapists, mental health practitioners and social prescribers you can see directly. NHS England's reforms mean you may be offered one of these professionals instead of a GP when they are the fastest right answer for your problem.

The registration covers more than one service type — gp practices and mobile doctors — which is common where one location houses complementary services under a single provider.

For funding and referral purposes the location sits in the Westminster local authority area of the London region, in a city with 5,528 registered healthcare providers of all types — relevant because needs assessments, social-care budgets and many community services are organised along these boundaries.

The CQC publishes inspection reports for registered locations as they are completed; the official record for this location is linked in the registration section below and is the most reliable public account of how the service performs.

General practice is by definition generalist, but every practice has a declared scope on the CQC register describing who it is commissioned and equipped to care for. For Cinnamon Healthcare the register records:

Services for everyone

This provider is registered without population restrictions — its service is open to the general public rather than limited to specific age bands or clinical groups. In practice this is the standard registration for mainstream services such as dental practices, GP surgeries and diagnostic clinics.

Use these declarations actively: they tell you which providers are even eligible for your situation, and they give you the vocabulary for sharper questions. Needs that span more than one group deserve special attention — ask any prospective service how the care plan will address both together, and listen for specifics rather than reassurance.

Declared specialisms are commitments, not decorations: the CQC inspects against them, and they are a fair basis for direct questions when you contact the service.

Exact availability varies by location — treat this as the typical scope of a GP practice and confirm specific treatments directly with Cinnamon Healthcare before attending.

GP consultations

Face-to-face, telephone and video appointments for new symptoms, ongoing conditions and mental health concerns — the core of general practice.

Long-term condition management

Structured annual and interim reviews for diabetes, asthma, COPD, heart disease and other chronic conditions, usually nurse-led with GP oversight.

Prescriptions and medication reviews

New prescriptions, repeat prescribing and structured reviews to keep medicines safe and effective — increasingly handled by clinical pharmacists.

Immunisations and vaccinations

Childhood schedules, flu and COVID-19 campaigns, shingles and pneumococcal vaccines, and travel advice where offered.

Health checks and screening

NHS Health Checks for 40–74-year-olds, cervical screening, blood pressure monitoring and referrals into national screening programmes.

Referrals to specialists

Assessment and referral into hospital and community specialist services, including urgent two-week-wait cancer pathways where symptoms justify it.

Minor surgery

Many practices remove skin lesions, inject joints and perform other minor procedures on site, avoiding a hospital visit.

Fit notes and reports

Statements of fitness for work, plus medical reports and forms (some carry a private fee as they fall outside NHS work).

Family planning and sexual health

Contraception advice and prescribing, coil and implant fitting where trained clinicians are available, and sexual health signposting.

To contact Cinnamon Healthcare directly, call 07932626299.

To be seen at Cinnamon Healthcare you first need to be registered — and since 2023 every GP practice in England must accept online registration through the national Register with a GP service, as well as paper forms. You do not need proof of address or immigration status to register, and practices may only refuse if their list is formally closed or you live outside the catchment area.

Once registered, book via the NHS App, the practice's own online system, or by phone. Practices triage demand — a care navigator may ask brief questions to route you to the right professional, which may be a GP, nurse, pharmacist or physiotherapist. For problems that cannot wait, say so clearly: practices hold same-day capacity for urgent cases, and NHS 111 covers evenings and weekends.

The NHS App deserves a special mention: it lets you order repeat prescriptions, view test results and your medical record, and book appointments without phoning at 8am. If you have not activated it, reception at Cinnamon Healthcare can give you the linkage details in a couple of minutes.

Cinnamon Healthcare has not yet published opening hours on this profile (the official register does not capture them; they are added when a provider claims its listing). Ring the service (07932626299) to confirm today's hours before travelling — the two-minute call is cheaper than a wasted journey, especially around bank holidays.

Timing your contact helps: midweek, mid-morning calls typically reach a human fastest, while Monday mornings — when the weekend's queries land all at once — are the hardest time to get through to any healthcare service.

Whatever brings you to a GP practice, the first appointment covers similar ground — and ten minutes of preparation makes it substantially more useful.

Bring the paperwork that saves repeating yourself: a list of current medications with doses (a photo of the boxes works), any relevant hospital letters or test results, your NHS number if you know it, and glasses or hearing aids if you use them. If the appointment concerns someone you care for, bring evidence of any legal authority you hold — power of attorney documents change what staff can lawfully discuss with you.

Expect the first appointment to include identity and history checks, a discussion of what you need, and an examination or assessment appropriate to the service. Be direct about two things in particular: everything you are taking (including over-the-counter and herbal products), and what outcome you actually want — clinicians plan differently for "I want to be seen quickly" versus "I want the most thorough option".

Before you leave, make sure three questions have answers: what happens next, who does it, and when. Vague follow-up arrangements are where care most often goes adrift; a specific next step — a booked review, a named referral, a results date with a way to chase it — is the mark of a well-run service, and it is entirely reasonable to ask for it explicitly.

GP care is free at the point of use for everyone registered with the practice — consultations, nurse clinics, referrals and NHS prescriptions carry no consultation fee. In England a prescription charge applies per item unless you are exempt (under-16s, over-60s, pregnancy, qualifying benefits and certain medical conditions); prepayment certificates cap the cost for anyone needing regular medication.

Some services fall outside NHS work and carry practice-set private fees: travel vaccinations not covered by the NHS, medical reports for insurers or employers, private sick notes, and some forms and letters. Practices publish these fees — ask reception at Cinnamon Healthcare for the current list before requesting paperwork.

The service operates from 85 Great Portland Street,London in London — postcode W1W 7LT, within the W1W district. For turn-by-turn directions, the full postcode is the reliable input for any navigation app — or use the Google Maps link for this exact location.

If you are travelling by public transport, plan the last leg around the postcode rather than the service name — journey planners resolve postcodes far more reliably. Arriving by car, check parking arrangements when you book: town-centre services often rely on nearby public car parks, while suburban and residential locations usually offer on-site or on-street options.

A note on catchment: some services (particularly NHS-commissioned ones) serve defined areas, so confirm when booking that your address falls within scope. Self-funded and independent services rarely restrict by geography — there, the only catchment question is how far you are willing to travel, repeatedly, for the care involved.

Accessibility needs are best flagged in advance: step-free access, hearing loops, interpreters and longer appointments are all reasonable adjustments providers are expected to accommodate under the Equality Act, and a note on your booking makes the visit run as it should.

If this location is not convenient, the nearest comparable alternative is Online Psychiatry UK, roughly 0.0 miles away — the nearby providers section below lists more options with distances.

The right questions do more than fill an appointment — they reveal how a GP practice thinks. These are the ones that earn their place:

1. Who exactly will provide my care, and what is their professional registration?
2. What are the realistic timescales — first appointment, results, and treatment?
3. What will this cost in total, and what could add to that figure later?
4. What are the alternatives, including doing nothing for now?
5. How do you handle problems out of hours, and who do I contact?
6. What should I expect to feel or notice afterwards, and what would be a warning sign?
7. How will you keep my GP informed, and what gets written to my record?
8. If my needs change, how quickly can the plan change with them?

A good service treats this list as routine; defensiveness anywhere on it tells you something the inspection report may not.

CQC registration is the legal baseline for operating a service like this one; the value for you sits in the public record built on top of it — inspection reports, ratings and enforcement history.

The CQC inspects against five questions — is the service safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — and publishes its findings. For Cinnamon Healthcare, the registered provider is DLV Medical Ltd. The official CQC record for this location carries the current registration status, ratings where awarded, and every published inspection report.

The rating scale runs Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, Inadequate — and context matters when reading it. Good is the expected standard, not a consolation prize; Outstanding is genuinely rare and usually reflects exceptional leadership culture rather than better equipment. A Requires Improvement rating deserves a closer look at which of the five questions dragged it down: a responsive shortfall (waiting times, complaint handling) is a different risk from a safe shortfall (medicines, staffing). Some location types are inspected without ratings at all, so an unrated service is not a warning sign in itself.

Reading a report efficiently: start with the well-led section (it predicts everything else), then safe. Look at the direction of travel across the last two inspections rather than a single snapshot, and treat "requires improvement" with a credible action plan differently from the same rating with repeated findings. If anything in a report concerns you, raising it with the service directly is both fair and revealing — well-run providers answer plainly.

Every patient of a CQC-registered service holds a set of enforceable rights, and knowing them changes how confidently you can act when something is not right.

You are entitled to informed consent — a genuine explanation of options, risks and alternatives before treatment, in language you understand, with interpreters provided where needed. You have a right of access to your own records under UK GDPR, free of charge in most cases, within a month of asking. And under the Equality Act, providers must make reasonable adjustments for disability — from step-free access to communication formats — as a legal duty, not a favour.

If care falls short, complain in stages: first to the provider itself (every registered service must operate an accessible complaints procedure and respond within a defined timescale); then, for NHS-funded care, to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman — or for privately funded care, to the Independent Sector Complaints Adjudication Service where the provider subscribes. Local authority-funded social care complaints escalate to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Two further channels matter. The CQC does not investigate individual complaints, but it wants to hear about poor care — reports feed directly into inspection planning, and you can tell it anything in confidence via its website. And if you need help making a complaint about NHS care, every area has a statutory independent advocacy service that is free to use; your council can point you to the current provider.

London has 5,528 CQC-registered healthcare providers in total, of which 1,597 are GP practices — so genuine comparison is possible before you commit. The full London directory and the local gp practices listing let you shortlist alongside this profile.

You have a legal right to choose your GP practice, and with 1,597 practices in London there is real choice to exercise. Compare the practical things first: catchment area, appointment availability (the national GP Patient Survey publishes per-practice satisfaction scores), online access, and whether the practice offers evening or weekend appointments through its network. Then read the CQC report — the well-led rating is the best proxy for whether the practice answers its phones and manages its lists properly.

Where is Cinnamon Healthcare located?

Cinnamon Healthcare is at 85 Great Portland Street,London, W1W 7LT, in London (London region). The full postcode works in any sat-nav or journey planner.

How do I contact Cinnamon Healthcare?

Call 07932626299 during opening hours. For funding-route questions (NHS availability, fees), asking directly by phone gets the current position.

Is Cinnamon Healthcare regulated?

Yes — it is registered with the Care Quality Commission (location ID 1-25245502462) under the registered provider DLV Medical Ltd. Registration is a legal requirement for delivering this type of care in England and brings ongoing inspection.

What are the nearest alternatives to Cinnamon Healthcare?

The closest comparable providers are Online Psychiatry UK (0.0 miles), Kind Clinics London (0.1 miles), Bilba Clinic (0.1 miles). Each has a full profile on this site with contact details and registration information.

Can I register without proof of address?

Yes. NHS guidance is clear that practices cannot insist on proof of address, ID or immigration status as a condition of registration. If you are refused registration the practice must give you the reason in writing.

How do I see a GP urgently?

Call the practice as early as possible and say the problem is urgent — practices reserve same-day capacity. Evenings and weekends, call NHS 111, which can book you into extended-access hubs or out-of-hours services.

Can I choose a specific GP?

You can express a preference for a named GP and the practice must record it, though for urgent problems you will usually be offered the first available clinician. Continuity matters most for complex, ongoing conditions — say so when booking.

Does Cinnamon Healthcare treat NHS or private patients?

The public register does not record funding routes, and many providers serve both. Phone the service for the current position — NHS availability in particular changes as capacity fills and reopens, so today's answer beats anything a directory can cache.

Where does the information on this page come from?

Core details — name, address, registration, provider and specialisms — come from the Care Quality Commission register (Open Government Licence v3.0) and are refreshed monthly. Guidance sections reflect how services of this type work across the UK. Always confirm time-sensitive details such as opening hours directly with the provider.