Practice News & Announcements

Latest Job vacancies 

Receptionist/Clerical Officer, 2 Positions Available. Work days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 8.30am - 6pm. Days will be confirmed. Please see link below for Further Information.

https://www.jobapplyni.com/Vacancy/VacancyDetail?Id=1716250&Keyword=recep&CurrentPage=1&AdvancedSearch=False&DoSearch=True

Spring COVID Booster VACCINATIONS

Spring Covid Vaccines are now available to patients aged 75 years and over and Immunosuppressed patients age 18 - 74.. If you have not been contacted please phone the surgery to make an appointment.

From June 3rd 2024 we are implementing a new GP Appointments booking system.

Whilst longer GP appointments are preferable for both patient and doctor, in an effort to see as many patients as possible we are reluctantly having to reduce appointment times to ten minutes. This will mean patients will have their most pressing problem dealt with more promptly, and overall, more people can be seen. By shortening appointment times we will have to be strict in enforcing the “one problem per appointment” rule, and in not accepting repeat prescription requests during appointments.

We plan to open up these appointments to have some “book same day” and some to be booked for the following day.  A selection of appointments are available to book online at 8am, from January 2025 some will be available to book at 8pm the night before. The rest of the appointments will be available to book by phone from 8.30am. We are extending our telephone queuing system to accommodate more people at once, which may mean a longer wait time, but will reduce the need to continuously redial. It will also mean you know what number you are in the queue. If fully staffed we will be offering approximately 80-100 appointments PER DAY, every day. Hopefully after the first few weeks, the pressure will start to ease on the system. Please bear with us during the changeover period as the pressure may initially seem to increase before it can then reduce.

WE WILL NO LONGER BE MAKING ANY APPOINTMENTS AT RECEPTION IN THE MORNINGS

PLEASE DO NOT QUEUE

We will still have a small number of routine telephone call appointments with a GP bookable 48 hours ahead if your problems will definitely not require any type of face to face appointment or examination. For example for a first sick line request. (Repeat sick lines can be requested in the usual way).

In implementing these changes we have been trying to make the system as fair as possible to all, and ask that you will bear with us through any “teething problems”