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Consultations are by appointment only and can be booked up to four weeks in advance.

When you contact us to make an appointment, our Reception team will ask you some essential questions to work who the most appropriate person is for your to speak to, as it might not be a GP.  Our team here includes Pharmacists, a Physiotherapist, a Mental Health Nurse, and a Community Link Worker.  You don’t have to tell the Receptionist anything that makes you uncomfortable, however they can help you get to the most appropriate appointment as quickly as possible. All the information they handle is treated confidentially.

All GP appointments will be carried out by telephone in the first instance. This allows the doctors to decide whether you need to be seen in person in the surgery, or whether your problem can be dealt with over the telephone, or, occasionally, via a video consultation.  If you have a problem that needs to be seen face-to-face, the GP will arrange this for you, and if any tests or investigations are required, you can get these taken care of meantime, so that the results will be back when you see the doctor.  If you have a problem that needs to be seen in person urgently, we'll bring you in and deal with it the same day, if possible.

For urgent appointments please call the practice as early as possible in the day.

Practice Nurses

In a number of cases it might be worth considering an appointment with a practice nurse rather than a doctor. Practice nurses are qualified to deal with many ailments and you may be seen more quickly.

Phlebotomist

If you've simply been advised to have a blood test, or to have your blood pressure checked, you can book in with our Phlebotomist, Jade Valentine.  Please note that these tests must have been pre-authorised by a doctor or nurse first.  You cannot simply decide to have such tests carried out by yourself!

Cancellations

If you cannot attend an appointment for any reason please inform us as soon as possible in order for us to give the slot to someone else.

Medical Student Teaching

The Surgery is a teaching practice for students studying Medicine at Edinburgh University Medical School.  This means that we have "Student Doctors" attached to the Practice for periods of 10 weeks at a time, over 30 weeks of the year.  The students will be observing consultations between patients and various members of the Practice team during their attachments, and they will accompany the GPs on home visits etc.  There will only ever be one student at a time, and he or she will be bound by the same duty of confidentiality that applies to all other members of our Team.  Each Student Doctor will require to gain experience and confidence in dealing with patients' problems themselves, so during the course of each 10-week attachment, we will seek your permission to allow the Student to obtain the story behind your problem, and/or examine you, if you need to be seen in person. 

You will be advised whenever a student is going to to present at any of the appointments that you attend, so that you have the opportunity to ask to see your healthcare professional alone. Please do remember, however, that we are teaching the doctors of the future, and the only way for them to learn is by seeing patients like you.

 

 

 
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