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Appointments

Appointments can be booked in person, over the telephone and via the internet. When you make an appointment please make it clear if you wish to see a particular doctor.

Appointments are routinely booked for 10 minutes.  Please ask if you require longer than that.  It may not be possible to deal with more than one or two issues properly in 10 minutes, so please bear that in mind when making your appointment.

Doctor Appointment

Two doctors are usually available for consultations each day, but this may be reduced during holidays or due to other commitments.

There is a mixture of appointments available for each doctor:

• half can be booked up to several weeks ahead for reviews and more routine issues
• and half can be booked on the day for the more urgent problems that need to be dealt with that day.  More same day appointments will be used at times of GP absence

We are committed to providing a good, safe and accessible service.  If all appointments for that day have already been taken, but you feel your problem needs to be assessed that day, please let the receptionist know and you will be advised when to attend.

Please try and help us to make best use of our service by planning ahead when possible.  That will result in more of the same day slots being available for those who do need to be seen that day.

Nurse Appointment

The nurses offer appointments in the morning and evening with their earliest appointments being 8:00am and 15:30pm respectively.  Appointments are routinely booked for 10 minutes.  Please ask if you require a longer appointment.

Thursday afternoon

The surgery is closed from 12.30 each Thursday afternoon. If you have an urgent problem requiring advice or assessment, please ring the surgery number.  The answering service will ask for the on call doctor to ring you back and make appropriate arrangements to help.

Home Visits

We make home visits to those who are too ill or infirm to come to the surgery. In all other circumstances we prefer to see patients at the Surgery, as it is often helpful to have the surgery facilities and practice team to hand.

If you are in doubt as to whether a home visit is appropriate please telephone and ask. Please discuss visits with us whenever possible before 10:00am.

Please do not be surprised if the receptionist asks for details of your illness as this helps us with planning priorities.  The doctor may need to ring you back.

Please remember that several patients can be seen in the practice in the time that it takes to make one home visit. There are also better facilities for examining and treating patients at the Surgery.

Test Results

We ask that you make it your personal responsibility to find out the results of any tests, X-rays etc. that we have requested, with the exception of cervical smears where the results will be sent to you direct.

Please ring after 10:30am in the morning, or after 2:00pm in the afternoon, to get your results.

Occasionally however the nurses do telephone patients with test results.  If there is an answer phone they will leave a message requesting that you contact the Surgery. If you do not want messages left on your answering service please let us know.

Please note: Your results are confidential to you and will not be given to anyone else without your express permission. Exceptions to this apply for young children (when results will be given to a parent or guardian) and when another doctor needs to know.

Telephone Advice

We have made it easy for you to speak to the doctor or nurse on the telephone.  Please telephone during the advertised surgery hours and the receptionist will arrange for the doctor or nurse to call you back, either during or at the end of surgery depending on the degree of urgency.