News:

WEDNESDAY CLOSING - The Practice is closed ONCE a month for staff development and training.  Our Doctors, Nursing and administrative do need time to train together, which is vital to improve service delivery.  We DO NOT close on other Wednesday afternoons.

CANCELLING APPOINTMENTS
If you are unable to attend an appointment with one of the doctors or nurses, please telephone or use the link at the bottom of this page to cancel your appointment.
By giving us as much notice as you can you are helping us to make sure that someone else is given your slot.
Please keep your appointment, don't waste it.

Total appointments wasted during MAY 212 (this equates for 56 GP appointments and 156 nurses appointments wasted)  KEEP IT DON'T WASTE IT!   The Practice has introduced a policy for patients who DNA or fail to cancel their appointment.  Patients who continue to DNA risk being removed from the Practice.

EMERGENCY APPOINTMENTS
If you require to be seen urgently, please tell the receptionist the nature of your request to assess the urgency. This facility is for emergency cases only and we ask you to not use this service for routine problems

HOME VISITS 
These should be reserved for patients who are genuinely too ill to attend surgery. Please telephone before 10.00am and be prepared to answer a few questions to help the doctors plan their calls and to give the doctors an idea of urgency. Please remember the doctor can see at least four patients in surgery in the time taken to do one visit.  

 

Welcome to our new and updated website!

Orchard_PracticeWelcome to Orchard Medical Practice and the practice of Drs Sheikh, Temple, Macgregor, Mills, Freeman and Phipps.

At Orchard Medical Practice we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously and in complete confidence. Please help us to help you by reading this website and follow the suggestions made to ensure that appropriate services can be provided when you most need them.

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.

Medical Students  - We help in the training of Medical Students.  Medical Students will occasionally sit in with the doctor.  You are free to ask them not to be prsent when you see the doctor.

NEW!  Get reminders by text message
You can now register to receive information regarding appointments and health care.  If you wish to register for this service download and fill out the registration form and return it to the practice.  Otherwise, we will ask you for you mobile number when making a future appointment with us, it's as simple as that.

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