Netherfield Medical Centre

read moreOur surgery at Netherfield is managed under our business name - Trentside Medical Group. We are confident that our website will provide clear and concise help and give our patients the information they require in an easy and convenient format. It has been designed with the patient's needs at the forefront of everything, from checking surgery times to letting us know what you think of us. Our dedicated team are here to treat those minor ailments that occur as well as providing specialist management of long-term conditions and clinics covering a wide range of healthcare issues.

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read moreThe telephone lines are open from 08:00 until 18:30 Monday to Friday. To make an appointment you can either call in personally or telephone 0115 961 4583. We do have some early appointments before 8:00am so the reception team will be available to talk to you face to face from as early as 7:00am. Urgent cases can very often be dealt with the same day by one of our Senior Clinicians. This may be via telephone consultation, by appointment on the day or dropping in on one of our walk in sessions. At the surgery we will try to see you as near to your appointment time as possible, usually within 20 minutes.

read moreNurses Jane Barber, Katrina Gale and Sarah Potts are available to see patients for chronic disease management and are also able to prescribe. Available for consultation by appointment each day. They can help you with minor injuries, dressings, immunisations, injections, removal of sutures, ear syringing, blood pressure checks, urine testing and travel vaccinations. In addition they provide health checks for Asthma and other respiratory diseases, Diabetes, Hypertension (blood pressure), Heart Disease, Stroke and Cervical Smear Screening.

read moreAsk any pharmacy or dispensing appliance contractor that offers EPS or your GP practice to add your nomination for you. You don't need a computer to do this. Yes you can. If you don't want your prescription to be sent electronically tell your GP. If you want to change or cancel your nomination speak to any pharmacist or dispensing appliance contractor that offers EPS, or your GP practice. Tell them before your next prescription is due or your prescription may be sent to the wrong place. Your electronic prescription will be seen by the same people in GP practices, pharmacies and NHS prescription payment and fraud agencies that see your paper prescription now.

read moreDid you know you can book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view your medical records online? To register for online services, please visit our surgery and provide a valid form of I.D to a member of our reception team. If practices are sending messages about recommended treatment for the management of a specific health issue, then this is defined as providing appropriate care for patients, not marketing purposes.

read moreThe Trentside Medical Group welcomes constructive criticism from our patients. We have an established a Patient Participation Group. This is a group of patients who wish to become more involved in practice decision making, supporting the practice and facilitating communication between you, the patients, and the practice team. We meet with the group regularly and opinions and suggestions are freely exchanged at these meetings. We use the group to disseminate information to our patients and we hope that you will feed back to us your ideas via the group.

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