Appointments
Routine appointments
Before booking an appointment please take a minute to consider whether this is really required or if it can be dealt with by a different service that is more appropriate. The information below provides guidance on what kinds of conditions the different services cover. Please also take a look at the following graphic provided by NHS which gives important information on why the surgery is operating in the way it currently is:
Cancelling your appointment
If you have an appointment and cannot attend or wish to cancel, please let us know as soon as you can. You can call us on 01626 334411 or use our online form below.
Evening and Weekend Appointments
We now offer additional evening appointments for our patients. Practices will vary the times they are open. This is a requirement (known as Extended Access) where practice ensure, across the week (Monday to Thursday) that a practice in their area is open between 6PM – 8PM.
To access these appointments please continue to contact your registered practice.
Extended Access also provide a weekend service. There are clinics available each weekend situated in a central hub location. The hub location for our patients is Albany Surgery (Newton Abbot, TQ12 1GJ). Albany Surgery has been selected as the “weekend hub” as it is considered the most central surgery to service patients in Teignbridge and the surrounding area.
The appointments offered are by pre-booked appointments by contacting your local surgery and booking ahead. Patients will be able to be seen by a healthcare professional during these extended hours; we will be offering telephone appointments with a GP, Practice Nurse, and Health Care Assistant.
Home Visits
We can offer home visit appointments to patients who aren’t able to leave their home.
If you would like to request a home visit from the GP, please ask for a visit when you call to make an appointment. The visiting GP will call you first to get more information about your current problem, and will arrange a home visit if they need to carry out an examination.
The GP may be able to treat your problem without a home visit being needed.
If you know you will need a home visit appointment, please be sure to call to make the appointment before 10:30 on any day.
Please be aware – we can only offer home visit appointments to patients who are unable to leave their homes at all. If your current condition stops you from leaving your home, this will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
