Welcome to the Ashfield Medical Practice Website

Through this website we hope to improve our services to all our patients and enable you to find the information required at the click of a mouse.You can download registration forms, cancel existing appointments, change your name and address and much more.

You can find out information about medical conditions and diseases through our patient information leaflets as well as keep up to date with all the latest practice news and developments.

We are always looking to improve our services so please leave some feedback on our contact page.  We hope that with your help and co-operation we will be able to make this website a better portal for all your online needs.

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BREAST SCREENING

The Scottish Breast Screening Programme invites all women between 50 and 70 for breast screening approximately every three years - although this may be earlier due to changes in the screening department. Invitations are not sent to people over the age of seventy, but you remain at risk of developing breast cancer and are still welcome to attend.

The practice has been allocated October 2019 for Breast Screening for our patients.

Please see the link below for more information;

https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/screening

You may also find it helpful to;

• Contact the NHS Inform helpline on 0800 22 44 88 ( the helpline also provides an interpreting service)
• Talk to your friends and family who have already attended

NEW REGISTRAR

We welcome Dr Louise McNeil who will be with us until December 2020. __________________________________________________________________

TRAINING

We are delighted to announce that Sister Fiona Bennet is training as an Advanced Nurse Practioner. This is a two year programme and will require her to shadow the GP's in their consultations.  We hope you will support her in her training.

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PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 2020/2021

The surgery will be closed on the following dates:

2020

Wednesday     1st of January

Thursday        2nd of January

Friday            10th of April

Monday          13th of April

Monday          4th of May

Monday          25th of May

Monday          20th of July

Monday          28th of September

Friday            25th of December

Monday          28th of December

2021

Friday            1st of January

Monday          4th of January

For all emergencies please call NHS24 111

TEXT ALERT REMINDER SERVICE 

Would you like to be included in the following services?

• Text Messages to your mobile phone 

We have the facility to use the above services to contact you. These may be used to notify you of, for example

• Changes to your booked appointment
• FREE appointment reminders
• Cancelled clinics including GP, Nurse and Health Care Assistant
• Other notifications the practice deem necessary to your health care provision

If you would like the GP Practice to contact you by this means please sign up by making sure we have your up to date Mobile Phone number. This can be done at reception by filling out an up to date contact form or by filling out a change of address form - Link on Change of Address Information page 4.

PLEASE NOTE 

If you agree to the GP Practice contacting you via test message to your mobile phone, the GP Practice agrees to adhere to the following:-

1. The mobile phone number  will only be used by the GP Practice and will not be passed to any other parties. 
2. No personal details will be included in the message to identify you.

HOUSE OF CARE APPROACH TO ANNUAL REVIEW

The practice are introducing a new model of delivering annual reviews to patients with chronic disease.  This model has been introduced across the UK and involves a two appointment process.  Measurements will be gathered by our Health Care Assistant and the results will be sent to the patient before the second appointment with the Nurse.  We will role this approach out over the next year commencing with our diabetic patients.  Please note you will be invited to attend for this new style of annual review by letter as we have done in the past.  More information on this approach can be found at:

BOWEL SCREENING

All men and women aged 50–74 are invited for bowel screening. Bowel screening involves taking a simple test at home every two years.

We strongly encourage you to take this simple test. In Scotland the screening programme will prevent at least 150 deaths from bowel cancer each year

For more info, go to

http://www.nhsinform.co.uk/Screening/bowel

 If you mislay your bowel screening kit please call 0800 0121 833 to order a new kit.