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Enhanced Access

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From 1st October 2022, Belmont Medical Centre is offering improved access to appointments and other general practice services.

‘Enhanced Access’ means:

  • As a Network, we are providing appointments from 7:30am until 8pm on weekdays, and from 9am-5pm on Saturdays.
  • Appointments will be both bookable in advance (up to 14 days) and available for same day bookings
  • A mix of services will be available within these additional hours with access to the range of health professionals working in the primary care team, including, but not limited to, GP Appointments, Screening Appointments, Phlebotomy, and Vaccinations.
  • There will be a choice of ways to access appointments depending on clinical need, such as telephone, video appointment, online consultation, or face to face.  You may be seen or spoken to by the following Healthcare Professional: GP, Nurse, Clinical Pharmacist, Health Care Assistant.

Our Enhanced Access Service is provided in Partnership with 7 other local practices who form South Southall Primary Care Network.  When a face-to-face appointment is needed, this may be at a GP practice in the local area – this may not be at your own GP practice, but at another nearby.

The exact mix of what is provided through this enhanced offer will be determined based on local health needs, current usage of out of hours’ services and the views of patients.

The Practices that form South Southall PCN, and provide our Enhanced Access Service are:

Belmont Medical Centre, 18 Western Road, Southall Middx, UB2 5DU

Waterside Medical Centre, Tyler Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB2 4XQ

Guru Nanak Medical Centre, 1 Woodlands Road, Southall, Middx, UB1 1EE

Featherstone Road Health Centre, Hartington Road, Southall, Middx, UB2 5BQ

Hammond Road Surgery, 93-95 Hammond Road, Southall, Middx UB2 4EH

The Welcome Practice, 70A Norwood Road, Southall, Middx, UB2 4EY

Sunrise Medical Centre, 9 Abbotts Rd, Southall UB1 1HS

Southall Medical Centre, 223 Lady Margaret Road, Southall, UB1 2PT

Patients will be able to book appointments for weekday evenings and Saturday between 9am and 5pm. This should provide greater flexibility for patients and expand access to routine and same-day appointments with our full clinical team.

Data Protection Laws are changing. If you have not permitted the sharing of your patient record with other GP practices, this will prevent you from accessing weekday evening and weekend appointments that are held at our Weekend Plus Hubs. If you would like to change your consent to share your patient record with other organisations that may care for you, please contact Reception.”

GETTING HELP AND SUPPORT FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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GETTING HELP AND SUPPORT FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR AN EMERGENCY SITUATION TO FIND HELP.  IF DOMESTIC ABUSE IS HAPPENING TO YOU, IT’S IMPORTANT TO TELL SOMEONE AND REMEMBER YOU’RE NOT ALONE.

You can:

You can also email for support. It is important that you specify when and if it is safe to respond and to which email address:

The Survivor’s Handbook from the charity Women’s Aid is free and provides information for women on a wide range of issues, such as housing, money, helping your children, and your legal rights.

If you are worried that you are abusive, you can contact the free Respect helpline on 0808 802 4040.

 

The NHS App is now available to the public on Google Play and Apple app stores.

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The NHS App enables people to:

If their GP practice is connected to the app, they can register and verify their identity so they can:

  • book and manage appointments at their GP practice
  • order their repeat prescriptions
  • view their GP medical record securely

Find out more about the future developments planned for the NHS App.