Appointments

Unless you have an urgent need for the day please phone in after 11:00 a.m. for a routine appointment.

Your appointment will be with your registered doctor (your doctor’s name is on your NHS medical card); unless they are not in surgery and then if you wish to, you can see another doctor.

Please phone 0844 477 3300 to make your appointment. Please phone before 9.00am if it is needed that morning and before 2.00pm if it is for the evening surgery.

For other appointments either call at the reception desk or phone between 11.00am and 3.00pm Monday to Friday. You will be offered your doctor’s first free appointment unless you specify otherwise. If your problem is medically urgent, you will be fitted into the surgery that your doctor is currently holding if at all possible.You will be asked to give our receptionists an indication of your problem to help your doctor, but may decline if you do not wish to provide such information.How To See Your Doctor

Though we work as a group practice you will be assigned to one of our doctors whom you will see if they are in surgery. Other doctors will not see you if your doctor is in surgery. We believe that continuity of care through your own doctor is very important.

Occasionally, female patients may prefer to see a female doctor and male patients a male doctor. Please inform the receptionist if this is your wish.

Surgery times will vary between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in the morning and 3.00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. for the afternoon.

We have two GPs available daily for emergency only cover from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Nurses' Appointments

Please phone 0844 477 3300 after 11.00am to make a nurse’s appointment.Clinics are available 8.00am - 1.00pm and 2.00 - 6.00pm.Appleton Surgery

Appleton Surgery

Patients of Dr Gwatkin who live in Appleton, Eaton, Fyfield, Netherton and Tubney can attend the surgery held in the Village Hall, Appleton.

Please phone 0844 4773300 to make an appointment.The surgery (maximum 15 patients) is held every Wednesday morning 8.30 - 10.50am.

Home Visits

These are made at the doctors’ discretion

If possible please try to telephone reception before 10am if you require a home visit.

A doctor or nurse may phone you back as it may be that your problem can be dealt with by telephone advice, or that it would be more appropriate to send a nurse, or indeed arrange a hospital attendance.

House visits are only available for patients who are housebound because of illness or disability.

Please remember that several patients can be seen in the practice in the time that it takes to make one home visit. There are also better facilities for examining and treating patients at the Health Centre.

Disabled access

The Malthouse Surgery clinical areas and the surgery at Appleton are on the ground floor and access to all clinical parts of the practice premises is suitable for disabled patients. Disabled parking is available close to the main entrance.

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Teaching

We are privileged to have been accepted as a practice which trains doctors wishing to specialise in or experience General Practice. GP Registrars join us for one year periods. Medical students also occasionally sit in with the doctors. In the teaching of doctors and students, it is necessary for the participants to have access to patients’ medical records, on the computer and in letters. Your permission to allow this is always sought.

You may also encounter community nursing and health visitor postgraduate students as the practice is a centre for community nurse teaching.

GP Availability

The doctors are available for the following sessions: