News:

Wednesday Closing

The Practice is closed ONCE a month for staff development and training.  Our Doctors, Nursing and administrative staff 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 note that the Practice has a policy for Patient who DO NOT ATTEND or fail to cancel their appointment.  Patients who continue to DNA risk being removed from the Practice.
Please keep your appointment, don't waste it.

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
Home Visits are 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 assess the urgency. Please remember the doctor can see at least four patients in surgery in the time taken to do one visit.  


 

Patient Participation Group

Orchard Medical Practice Patient Participation Group (PPG)

Orchard Medical Practice has a responsibility to ensure it involves its patients in relevant issues to the Practice and to respond appropriately to the views and experiences of patients.

The Practice has established a PPG to bring together patients, doctors and members of the practice team to work together in partnership in order to promote the wellbeing of patients and support the practice to provide high quality of care. 

With the pending relocation of Orchard Medical Practice to Mansfield Community Hospital site in summer 2010, the Practice is keen to engage with patients to ensure that patients' needs are considered in the planning and development of new and existing services, including general improvements to the Practice.

So if you are keen to:

find out more about Orchard Medical Practice relocation plans, where you can discuss your ideas or hear about plannned changes, please please feel free to contact the Practice or email us using the 'contact us' facility.

Click here

to read the previous meeting minutes and Terms of Reference