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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.  The next date is Wednesday 22nd May 2013.  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.  

 

 

GP Net Earnings

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earning (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice

The average pay for GPs working at Orchard Medical Practice in the last financial year (22/23) was £75,019 before tax and National Insurance. This is for 1 full time GP and 12 part-time GPs and 0 locum GP who has worked in the practice for more than six months.

It should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no
account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice, and should not be used to form any judgement about
GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

Updated: 25.03.24

 

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