Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd

Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd is a CQC-registered GP practice based at 10b Matlock Road in Brighton, within the South East region. The service is directly accountable to the Care Quality Commission for the quality and safety of the care it delivers.

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. Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd 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 location is administered by Brighton and Hove in the South East region, in a city with 201 registered healthcare providers of all types. Anyone pursuing council-funded care or community referrals will deal with services organised at this local-authority level.

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 Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd the register records:

Caring for children (0 - 18yrs)

A children's registration brings its own regulatory expectations: paediatric-trained staff, enhanced safeguarding arrangements aligned to children's legislation, family-centred care planning, and premises and equipment appropriate to children and young people rather than scaled-down adult services.

Caring for adults under 65 yrs

Registration for working-age adults signals a service oriented around different goals than elderly care: maintaining employment and family roles, rehabilitation and independence, and care plans built around an active life rather than primarily around frailty management.

Caring for adults over 65 yrs

The service is registered to care for older adults, which carries practical expectations: staff trained in frailty, falls prevention and pressure-area care; environments that accommodate reduced mobility; and care planning that accounts for multiple long-term conditions and polypharmacy — the norm rather than the exception over 65.

When comparing providers, match the declaration to your actual situation rather than to the longest list: a service registered for exactly your needs, with depth in them, generally serves you better than one registered for everything. If your circumstances span two groups — say, a physical disability alongside a mental health condition — ask specifically how the service coordinates both, because that intersection is where care plans most often fall short.

Treat these declarations as the service's public promise — inspectors check against them, and you are entitled to ask exactly how each one shows up in staffing and daily practice.

Exact availability varies by location — treat this as the typical scope of a GP practice and confirm specific treatments directly with Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd 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.

Direct contact details for Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd are held on the official CQC record linked below; your GP practice can also route a referral without you needing to phone.

To be seen at Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd 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 Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd can give you the linkage details in a couple of minutes.

Published opening hours for Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd are not yet held on this profile — the register does not record them, and hours appear here once the provider claims and completes its listing. A quick phone call remains the definitive check, and it is worth making even where hours are published, since bank holidays and staffing can change a given day.

If you have flexibility, avoid calling first thing on Monday, when demand across healthcare peaks; a Tuesday-to-Thursday mid-morning call usually gets answered quickest and gives reception the most room to help.

First visits run more smoothly when you arrive prepared, and preparation for a GP practice follows a predictable shape.

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 Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd for the current list before requesting paperwork.

Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd is located at 10b Matlock Road,Brighton, in the BN1 postcode district of Brighton. The full postcode, BN1 5BF, will take you to the door with any sat-nav or maps app — or use the Google Maps link for this exact location.

For public transport, enter the full postcode into a journey planner (National Rail, Traveline or your maps app) rather than searching the service name. Drivers should ask about parking at the point of booking — availability differs sharply between town-centre and residential locations, and knowing before you travel removes the most common source of appointment-day stress.

Think about journey frequency before fixating on any single provider: a one-off assessment justifies travel, but ongoing care multiplies every mile. With 201 providers of all types across Brighton, most neighbourhoods — including BN1 — have credible options within a short journey.

Anyone with access requirements — mobility, sensory or communication — should mention them at booking. Registered providers are legally required to make reasonable adjustments, and doing so is routine when the service knows before you arrive.

If this location is not convenient, the nearest comparable alternative is Vision of Hope, roughly 0.1 miles away — the nearby providers section below lists more options with distances.

Experienced patients ask better questions. For a GP practice, this shortlist reliably separates strong services from average ones:

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.

Every provider on this site is registered with the Care Quality Commission — but registration is the floor, not the ceiling, and the public record lets you judge far more than the badge.

The CQC inspects against five questions — is the service safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — and publishes its findings. For Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd, the registered provider is Experts in Skin & Hair 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.

Care in England comes with legal rights attached — most people only discover them when something goes wrong, which is precisely the wrong moment to start learning.

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.

Brighton has 201 CQC-registered healthcare providers in total, of which 39 are GP practices — so genuine comparison is possible before you commit. The full Brighton 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 39 practices in Brighton 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 Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd located?

Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd is at 10b Matlock Road,Brighton, BN1 5BF, in Brighton (South East region). The full postcode works in any sat-nav or journey planner.

How do I contact Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd?

Contact details are held on the official CQC record linked from this page, and your GP practice can route referrals directly. We display phone and website details as soon as they are available from the register.

Is Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd regulated?

Yes — it is registered with the Care Quality Commission (location ID 1-23692960641) under the registered provider Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd. Registration is a legal requirement for delivering this type of care in England and brings ongoing inspection.

What are the nearest alternatives to Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd?

The closest comparable providers are Vision of Hope (0.1 miles), Beaconsfield Medical Practice (0.6 miles), The Stanford Medical Centre (0.6 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 Experts in Skin & Hair Ltd 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.