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Welcome to The Elms Medical Centre

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This surgery website is used to present all our patients with up to date news and information about our practice. We will keep it current with any developments or other details that we feel are relevant to you. 

As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff and the services we provide, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like. We can use your ideas to improve our online services and further develop the content of this site. 

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New Interactive Patient Questionnaire Forms

We now have a new set of online questionnaires to help us collect patient information.  The forms are as follows:

 

  • Asthma Review Questionnaire
  • Alcohol Consumption Questionnaire
  • Hospital Anxiety & Depression Questionnaire (HAD)

 

We would be grateful if you could take the time to complete any of our questionnaires which may be relevant to yourself.  How to do; please click on the link on the right hand side under 'Further Information' and select the Questionnaire you would like to complete.

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Appointment Information

Appointments can be made by ringing 01244 351000, or by calling at the Medical Centre between 8.00am and 6.30pm.

Pre-Bookable Appointments:

These are appoitments that are available to book in advance.  For GP Appointments, these are pre-bookable 2 weeks in advance and for Nurse Appointments 4 weeks in advance.

Day Release Appointments:

If there are no available pre-bookable appointments left, then we have appointments that are released every day at 8.00am.  To obtain a day release appointment you need to ring the surgery first thing from 8.00am onwards.

More Than One Issue:

All our GP appointments are 10 minute conulstations, if you have more than one issue please ask for a double appointment.

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  • Pertussis (Whooping Cough Vaccination) for Pregnant Women

    The new Department of Health Guidelines advise that all pregnant women in the UK are to be offered Pertussis (Whooping Cough Vaccination) to help protect their unborn babies from the disease.

    Invites will be sent to patients who are between 28 and 38 weeks of pregnancy to have the vaccination.If you would like to have the vaccine please contact the surgery on 01244 351000 to make an appointment with a practice nurse.  Please note you do not have to wait to be invited before having the vaccine contact the surgey at any time.

     

    If you have any further queries regarding the vaccine, please contact your midwife or make a telephone appointment with one of our practice nurses.

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    There has been a recent increase in cases of measles. If your child has not completed their two MMR vaccinations, please make arrangements for their vaccinations. If you or your child are un-immunised and are due to travel abroad, please contact the Practice Nurse to discuss.

    Making Appointments at the Surgery - P lease contact the surgery on 01244 351000 to make both routine and urgent appointments with the GPs and Nurses

    GP Care Plus
    Extended Opening is available to all patients to book a routine appointment outside of practice opening hours. This service can be found at the 1829 Building at the Countess of Chester Health Park

    Appointments are available
    Mon - Fri 6.30-8pm
    Sat 10am - 12pm

    Please call 01244 385422 between 8am-6pm to book an appointment up to 2 weeks in advance

    Out of Hours
    Please ring 01244 385300. When the surgery is closed care is provided by GP’s and nurses employed by the Western Cheshire  Primary Care Trust and your doctor may not be on duty.

    Home Visits
    If you are too ill to attend surgery then please telephone 01244 351000 before 10-30am. State clearly the name and address of the patient and describe the symptoms. This helps the doctors to decide the urgency of the calls and plan their rounds.

    Test Results
    Please telephone between 11.30am and 5.00pm for the results of tests, x-rays etc.

    Quit Smoking

    A free friendly advice and support service is available to help you give up smoking. To get further information about stopping smoking either ask the GP or nurse when you visit them or phone 0800 0435134. Alternatively you can text quit4good to 60777, email quit@quit4good.org or visit www.quit4good.org

    Further Information

     
     
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