Contact

If the surgery is closed, an answer-phone message will tell you to replace the receiver and dial 111. 

Visits by the doctor will only be made in the event of the patient being too ill to travel to the doctor at the emergency center.

Patients who are told to attend the emergency centre will need to make their own travel arrangements but will be seen quickly and efficiently in ideal conditions.

Please ensure that out of hours calls are only requested when there is an urgent medical problem that cannot wait until the next normal surgery. Calling the doctor unnecessarily might delay them attending to a real emergency.

In order to monitor and improve the standard of service provided, all telephone calls to the emergency center are recorded.

Please do not ask to see a doctor out of hours unless you genuinely cannot wait until the surgery re-opens.
Call 999 in an emergency. Chest pains and / or shortness of breath constitute an emergency.