Appointments
Term time appointment usually start at 08:30 and are available until 12:20 - a few appointments are available over lunchtime on some days and tend to be very popular.
Afternoon appointments are usually from 1:50 to 5:20 except Monday when appointments start at 2:40 and Friday when they end at 4:50.
Female doctors are usually available - subject to appointments remaining unbooked and can be requested at the time of booking.
Urgent Medical Problems
Problems that cannot wait until the next appointment will be dealt with on the same day by the duty doctor or nurse practitioner on a first come first served basis between 9:00 to 11:00 am and 2:00 to 4:30 pm.
The 3 Nurse Practitioners deal with the majority of urgent medical problems - such as emergency contraception.
Nurse Appointments
The nurses see people without an appointment being necessary. They are experienced and able to treat a wide variety of problems and give advice particularly regarding vaccinations and travel health (afternoons only.)
They also run chronic disease management and contraceptive clinics, dress wounds & minor injuries and give vaccinations. Wart Clinic is on a 1st come, 1st served basis.
Appointments Checker
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The Appointments System
The aim of the system is to enable you to see a doctor within 48 hours or less for routine problems. Urgent problems will be dealt with on the same day. The Nurse Practitioners will deal with many common, urgent problems themselves, whilst our other Nurses may see patients with urgent problems first and help them decide whether they need to see a Doctor.
This system releases appointments with the Doctors and allows our Nurses to use their skills.
50% of our appointments can be booked up to 2 weeks ahead. These appointments get taken quite quickly.
50% are available on the day with the majority being released at 8.45 am and a small number at 1:45pm.
Our phone system has a call-waiting and queueing system to make contacting us easier: six receptionists are answering calls when we open at 09:00. Despite this, getting through can be difficult at peak times due to the volume of calls - we try to answer and deal with calls promptly.
Please cancel any appointment you cannot attend. Around FORTY appointments are lost every week by people not keeping them.