It's Flu Season Again!

Be vigilant this year! Call the surgery to book your flu vaccination appointment. 

We are currently ONLY performing over 65's vaccination on the following dates;

Please be aware that if you are under 65 and turn up for one of the above clinics we will have to refuse treatment. 

Further updates regarding under 65 vaccinations will be added to our website as soon as the dates are available. 

To check eligibility follow this link. 

'Continually working hard to maintain and improve our high levels of patient care'

Albany Surgery is situated in a purpose-built premises in Scott Close, the surgery has been providing medical services to the community of Newton Abbot and nearby villages for many years.

We are part of NHS Devon Clinical Commissioning Group, their website can be found here.

A map of our practice location may be found on the map page.

Our healthcare team includes doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, a phlebotomist, pharmacist, administration staff, midwives and health visitors. This website contain information about the surgery which will help you to make the most of the services that we offer. 

Free Surgery Parking is available for up to a maximum of 1 hour in front of the Sainsburys local store. There is also a disabled parking space outside our East Street Entrance.

 APPOINTMENT AVAILABILITY

We are currently experiencing unprecedented pressure on appointments due to long term and short term doctor sickness absence and pre-booked holiday absence of doctors and other clinical staff. 

Locum doctors have been booked to cover absences where these were known about in advance, but it has not been possible to  find locums when faced with unexpected absences as they are already working elsewhere.

This means, as a consequence, we have had to cancel some clinics so that the GP can provide the urgent on the day service. We deeply regret this as we know that our current ability to rebook non-urgent appointments is several weeks into the future, which is not the service we wish to provide for our patients.

On a positive note, we have taken on Dr Nutt as a permanent member of our team, and we have recruited another advanced nurse practitioner to reinforce our urgent on the day service which should mean we can offer more non-urgent GP appointments.

We appreciate that patients needs change, and ask if you have an appointment that you no longer need, then please let us know, this will allow us to offer the time to another patient. You can do this online, by calling reception on 01626 334411 or by emailing us - enquiriesatalbany.L83034@nhs.net

Thank you.  

MINDFUL EMPLOYER

We have signed up to the MINDFUL EMPLOYER charter! 

This is the charter for employers who are positive about mental health and is a voluntary agreement seeking to support employers in working within the spirit of its positive approach.  The charter is one element of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER® initiative which is aimed at increasing awareness of mental health in the workplace and supporting business in recruiting and retaining staff.

MINDFUL EMPLOYER is a UK-wide initiative run by Workways, part of Devon Partnership NHS Trust. More information at http://www.mindfulemployer.net/

GREEN IMPACT

We are thrilled to announce that we have achieved the silver award for being environmentally friendy and sustainable as a practice. For further details please click here.