News:

Opening Hours
The reception area is open from 8.30 am to 6.30 pm Monday to Friday. We are closed at weekends and on all public holidays.

We have extended our opening hours. On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, a few routine appointments are available with a GP from 7am. Please note that nurse appointments are not available, and the reception telephone will not be on.

Out of Hours
If you or your family need urgent medical care when the surgery is closed, please phone the usual daytime telephone number (9858822) and your call will be re-directed to the out-of-hours service.

Telephone Advice
The best time to call the surgery for advice is after morning clinics, usually between 11.30 and 12 noon. If the doctor you wish to speak to is still busy they will call you back, provided you leave a phone number, preferably a land line. 

Registration

The surgery is able to accept new patients at present. 

Training

Every two months the practice will be closed on  a Tuesday afternoon to allow protected staff training time. We need to  do this to keep up with changes and developments which affect the practice.

The next  date is:  14th September

On these afternoons the phones will be switched off for up to five hours, reception may be closed, and any urgent needs will be directed to the out of hours service

Nurses

We welcome Mandy Elliott who has joined the nursing team

Why not try our new automated arrivals screen next time you come in for an appointment?!

Our current registrar is Dr Natasha Knibbs who started on the 4th August.She will be with us until end of August 2011 . Dr Bilkhu has now left us, to take up a GP post in Nottinghamshire. We wish him well for the future 

GPs

Dr Carl Bond has joined the practice as a full time partner. We  welcome him to the team. Dr Kinza Tuttey and Dr Zeba Abbasi are helping us out with clinics over the summer

BABY CLINIC

The health visitors' walk-in baby clinic is no longer at Sherwood Health Centre on  Tuesday

Sexual Health checks are now available, Please look up under clinics and services

Appointments
Home Visits

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appointmentsAppointments

All our appointments are for ten minutes, and are for one person and preferably for one problem. You may book an appointment by phone, or by calling in. Appointments with the doctor are generally available up to four weeks ahead. If your preferred or usual doctor is not available for the time you wish to come you may be offered an appointment with another GP. Patients with an urgent medical problem will be given an appointment with the duty doctor for that session. These appointments should only be used for problems that will not wait and only for that problem.

Please note that several of our GPs work part-time so may not be available when you wish to come. Please help our staff to help you by seeing another doctor if that is the case.

If you unable to attend for an appointment, please remember to let us know so that we can make it available to somebody else

Appointments may be booked with the practice nurses for chronic disease checks (routine monitoring of blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, asthma and stroke patients), immunisations, travel injections, routine smear tests, wound dressing and stitch removal, ear syringing, dietary advice and new patient checks. Our health care assistant will see patients needing INR blood tests, blood pressure checks and other routine health checks. emis accessFor other blood tests  not relating to anticoagulation treatment please phone 8831400 and speak to the health centre receptionists.

 

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Telephone Advice

The best time to call the surgery for advice is after morning clinics, usually between 11.30 and 12 noon. If the doctor you wish to speak to is still busy they will call you back, provided you leave a phone number, preferably a land line.