When contacting us please tell us as much as you can about what’s wrong so that our Care Navigation trained receptionists can direct you to the healthcare professional best suited for your needs. This might be a GP, nurse or another specialist such as a physiotherapist, pharmacist or paramedic. The information you provide will also help us to prioritise your care. Our priority will be to ensure you receive care quickly and might offer you an telephone, video or face-to-face appointment, arrange a home visit or refer you to another service.
Please note our reception and other staff are subject to the same strict rules on privacy and patient confientiality as our GPs and Nurses.
The service is only available for adults over the age of 18 and anything you share will be kept strictly confidential. Our reception staff are subject to the same confidentiality rules as our clinical staff.
Reception staff will never offer clinical advice. Instead, this new way of working is about offering you choice to see the most appropriate professionals in your local practice team or even somewhere else. It will often be quicker and mean you may not need to wait to see a GP at all.
By working this way, it helps to free-up time for GPs to care for patients with the most complex or serious health conditions that can only be managed by a doctor. More importantly though, it means you are seen first by the Clinician that is best placed to help with your health needs. The choice is always yours. It is completely up to you if you want to share information with the practice reception team, but we hope you will.
If you need non-emergency medical advice when the surgery is closed please visit www.111.nhs.uk. If you don't have access to the internet phone 111 (free call from mobiles and landlines). Please dial 999 if you have a medical emergency.
If you are contacting the surgery about a child, you may want to consult the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) "traffic light" system for identifying risk of serious illness in children in the "Emergencies" section of this website.