Appointments

ROUTINE ONLINE APPOINTMENT BOOKING UNAVAILABLE – 

AS PART OF THEIR CORONAVIRUS PREPARATION GUIDANCE, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT ALL PRACTICES TEMPORARILY DISABLE ONLINE BOOKING OF APPOINTMENTS SO THEY CAN BE TRIAGED

WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE

GP and Nurse Appointments

GP appointments are scheduled at ten minute intervals. If you have more than one topic that you wish to discuss with the doctor you may be asked to make a separate appointment, as unfortunately the GP may simply not have sufficient time without causing their clinic running behind.

We do also ask that all patients attend on time for their appointment. Whilst we appreciate that sometimes the doctor may run late in their schedule, that is not to say patients should deliberately attend late; it simply means that a patient before you has clinically required more time for the doctor to deal with their problem.

If a doctor is running behind, please appreciate that it is not the receptionists’ duty to monitor the doctors’ schedules. It is understandable that you may wish to enquire as to how late your doctor is running, but please do not take out your frustration on reception staff, and do not ask them to message the doctor to ask how long they will be.

We would be grateful if you could bear this in mind if you do experience a delay.

Although nurse appointments are slightly longer at fifteen minute intervals, we do also ask that patients afford the nurses the same courtesy as detailed above.

How to Book an Appointment

To make an appointment, please use 01277 218393 option 1.

Urgent Appointments

In urgent cases we try to offer same-day appointments. It is helpful if patients provide as much information as possible. Please request before 09:30.

Doctors will speak to patients on the telephone initially, but will call in order of priority. If you opt to telephone us initially, our receptionists are asked to provide the doctors with an as much information as possible about each problem. Please note that if you do not provide such information the doctor will only be able to call you once they have triaged the patients who left messages

If you want to speak to reception, please select option 1 and a receptionist will take a message and contact details. This applies to both surgeries.

The New Surgery is open from 08.00 -18.30 Monday to Friday.

We have an extended-hours surgery on Saturday mornings from 08.30 – 12.30.

Any emergency requests during extended-hours surgeries will be diverted to the out-of-hours service.

Doctor Rotas

Some of our doctors are part-time. The days our doctors work are listed below: