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
Our highly trained Nursing Team offers appointments and a LIMITED Walk-In Service for:
- Women’s Services including Contraception and Smears
- Travel Advice and Immunisations
- Children’s Vaccinations
- Dressings and Wound Care
- Minor Injuries and illnesses such as sore throats, influenza, diarrhoea and vomiting, bladder infections and conjunctivitis
- NHS Health Checks (by invitation for over 40s)
- Diabetic and Asthma reviews
- Blood Pressure Checks
Nurse appointments are available between 8:30 and 17:00 Monday to Friday including some lunchtime appointments. The appointments can be pre-booked up to 2 weeks ahead or on the day. Whilst we offer a limited walk-in service on a first come first served basis, we would encourage you to make an appointment to avoid waiting too long.
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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. 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.