The surgery is open from 8.00am to 6.30pm, 5 days a week.
Outside these hours, care can be obtained from the extended hours service were appointments can be booked with a GP or a Nurse at another practice. These appointments can be booked for you here at the practice so that you know where and when to go. Please make sure that you book an appointment as these are not walk in centres.
In a recent Government run survey, 85% of respondents were satisfied with our opening hours.
Below is a list of some of the additional tasks GPs do which do not involve direct patient contact:
- Checking results
- Writing up notes
- Checking repeat medication requests
- Paperwork
- Practice meetings
- Managing staff issues
- Planning
- Teaching
- Studying/reading to keep up to date
- Handling contract issues
- Audits
- Critical incident analysis
- Complaints handling
- Writing referral letters to consultants
- Writing letters to various NHS managers
- Dealing with issues to do with premises
- Reading clinical letters from physios, OTs, consultants etc. regarding patients.