Appointments

GP appointments will be provided after your medical request has been triaged by a clinician. Some issues with require a same day appointment whilst other will require a routine appointment. Routine appointments are offered if your medical issue is not urgent or for any issues that cannot be dealt with by your local pharmacy, see list above.

Routine appointments are booked up to 2 weeks in advance for a GP for new issues or up to 4 weeks in advance if you have been asked to come back to see a GP after an initial consultation.

Appointments can either be in person or via a telephone call, this can be decided by you unless the GP deems an in person appointment necessary.

Nursing appointments can be booked up to 8 weeks in advance.

Please remember - standard appointments are for 10 minutes; the doctor or nurse will not be able to deal with multiple problems in a single appointment. Please let the receptionist know when you book the appointment if you think you may need a longer appointment. Situations where you will always need a longer appointment are:

• For cervical smear screening
• For an annual review for something like asthma, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, mental health
• Where an interpreter is needed

If you would like to book an appointment at the practice please submit your query online.

You must give your employer a doctor's 'fit note' (sometimes called a 'sick note') if you've been ill for more than 7 days in a row and have taken sick leave. This includes non-working days, such as weekends and bank holidays.

Visit our Sickness Certificates page

Information and advice for travelling abroad.

Visit our Travel Information page

If possible please try to telephone reception before 10am if you require a home visit.

A doctor or nurse may phone you back as it may be that your problem can be dealt with by telephone advice, or that it would be more appropriate to send a nurse, or indeed arrange a hospital attendance.

Home visits are only available for patients who are housebound because of illness or disability.

We offer early morning appointments and late evening appointments certain days of the week. We have regular Saturday morning clinics as part of the improving patient access initiative.

We also offer some late appointments 1 day a week and regular Saturday morning clinics as part of the improving patient access initiative.

This is aimed at those who work away from the surgery and cannot make routine appointments during the day. These accessed via our current online system.

Please fill in our medical request form during active hours to request an extended hours appointment.