Important...
When we are Closed…. Help Us To Help You by using your NHS services responsibly
If you cannot contact us, or when your GP practice is closed:
Life-threatening emergency or serious injury: call 999 or go to your nearest Emergency Department (A&E)
Other injury or urgent need for treatment: go to your nearest Urgent Treatment Centre
If you are unwell and need medical help: visit NHS 111 online or call 111
For expert advice and medicines: visit your local pharmacy
Mental health emergency: visit NHS 111 online
What NHS 111 cannot do:
Issue fit notes. You need to contact your GP for these or make or cancel appointments for you in other parts of the NHS
Other ways to contact NHS 111: If you need help in other languages, call 111 and ask for an interpreter or For BSL use signvideo.co.uk/nhs111
Out-of-hours services are generally busy so please think carefully before asking to see a doctor and only do so if you genuinely cannot wait until the surgery re-opens.
Published List of Pharmacies Open: Click Here to Find an Open Pharmacy Near You
*New plan for GPs and local pharmacies: As you may have seen, the NHS published a “Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care” on 9 May 2023. Please note that the initiatives in this plan – including new services from pharmacies – have not started yet. They will come into effect over the coming months. In the meantime, please continue to contact us, or use other NHS services, in the appropriate way
- What we do when you contact us: When you contact us, our practitioners assess how urgent your needs are.
- Urgent needs: If your need is clinically urgent, we will contact you and assess your needs on the same day, by a telephone or face-to-face appointment. If you contact us in the afternoon, we may contact you on the following day, but only if we decide that it is appropriate to wait.
- Non-urgent needs: If we decide that your need is not urgent, but requires a telephone or face-to-face appointment, we will schedule this within two weeks.
- Where appropriate, we will signpost you to community pharmacy and / or other local services.
The NHS South East London Integrated Care Board is an NHS statutory organisation. They bring together partners involved in planning and providing NHS services, working together to meet the health needs of the population within south east London and deliver the Integrated Care Partnership’s strategy. They are responsible for allocating NHS resource to deliver this plan.South East London’s Integrated Care System brings together all the organisations responsible for delivering health and care for our communities. Click on the link for further information: https://www.selondonics.org/
Advice in your region: England
Flu jabs available at the surgery from Oct every year!!
As you know, the cold and flu season is just around the corner. Although many colds will be tough to prevent, vaccination is an effective way to protect you from the flu.
Your GP highly recommends that you have a Flu Vaccination, particularly if you qualify under the criteria as shown below
If you are eligible (see below) you can to book your appointment with the Practice Nurse from Sept by calling the surgery on 0208 693 4704.
Please help us to help you and only telephone to book your seasonal flu appointment after you receive an SMS inviting you. Please rest assured that we will have enough vaccines.
