We now have a text messaging service in place to remind you of your appointment at the surgery.

Please let us know your up-to-date mobile number to benefit from this service If you wish to cancel your appointment there is a facility to do this. This will hopefully free up appointments that are not required by patients for others in need. Prescriptions and appointments can be made with our on-line service. Please come into the surgery and collect your unique token to allow you to sign up for this service.

Named GP

You may be aware that all practices are required to provide all of their patients with a named GP who will have overall responsibility for the care and support that our surgery provides to them.

These new arrangements do not prevent you making an appointment or seeing any doctor of your choosing within the surgery, as you would normally do. The GP you choose to see regularly is your ’usual GP.’ It is normally advisable to stick to one regular ‘usual’ doctor for your continuity of care.

NHS Friends and Family Test

Have your say on what we're getting right and what we could do better. It will help us improve our services for everyone. It won't take long and you won't be asked your name. Click here for our Friend & Family Survey Thank you!

Afternoon Closing

Wish to be a patient here?

The surgery is taking on patients who live within the TN28 post code area. Please ask at Reception Area for a registration form and new patient pack.

Flu Vaccines

If you fall into any of these catagories:

• Over 65 years of age
• Pregnant
• Chronic respiratory disease, such as severe asthma or COPD
• Diabetes
• Chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
• People in receipt of carer's allowance
• Chronic kidney or liver disease
• Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease and other neurological diseases
• People living in a long stay residential care homes
• Those with a weakened immune system due to disease, for example HIV or those undergoing cancer treatments

- please contact the surgery from September to book your annual flu vaccine. Thank you.

NHS Minor Ailments Scheme - Pharmacies

According to the Kent and Medway Area Team at NHS England, there are no pharmacies in the South Kent Coast (Shepway, Dover, Deal) or Thanet area offering this service. The existing service is currently under review and as a result no further pharmacies are able to sign up to this scheme.

Excerpts from the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) and Pharmacy Voice Statement explains:

“Community pharmacy minor ailment services are commissioned locally and there is no national service in England. It is not possible to say exactly which medical conditions are covered nor who might be eligible for any medicines free of charge because this will vary depending on the location and the particular service.

The purpose of a minor ailment scheme is to offer people easier access to medicines and advice from a qualified healthcare professional. The schemes only cover certain conditions and patients will only be offered medicines if they need them for their particular condition, and some patients may have to pay for these as they normally would. As is the case for GP visits, these schemes are not an opportunity to simply stock up on medicines free of charge.”