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PUBLIC HEALTH NOTICE

Our colleagues in Public Health are predicting a surge in the number of people who will get pneumonia over the winter period. It is important that if you have COPD that you ensure you have sufficient supply of inhalers and your other medication (including your rescue pack of antibiotics and steroids) and that you try and avoid mixing with people who already have coughs and colds over this time. Can we also take this opportunity to remind you to ensure you have had your flu vaccine this year and that you have had your pneumococcal vaccine in the past. Finally if you are still smoking we would encourage you to consider stopping to help your chest, discuss this at the surgery when you next attend.

For those who don't have COPD please contact us if you have a cough and fever that seems worse than usual, particularly if you are getting short of breath.

Contact the surgery for online registration to access and book routine GP appointments directly online

Opening Hours

Improved Access Hours

Extended Hours

When We Are Closed

Opening Hours - Northgate Medical Practice

Monday:	08:00 - 18:30 Routine Improved Access Appointments are available up until 8 pm at other locations in the Canterbury area, please ask at Reception for more details
Tuesday:	08:00 - 20:00 *
Wednesday:	08:00 - 20:00 *
Thursday:	08:00 - 20:00 *
Friday:	08:00 - 20.00
Weekend: Bank Holidays:	Saturday: 8.00 am to 1 pm Sunday : Routine Improved Access Appointments are available to book, however these are likely to be held in practices outside the Canterbury area locality. For example in Whitstable or Faversham.

*TRAINING DAYS: 2019
The Practice closes for regular GP and staff training afternoons and on these days, normally a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday the Practice will be closed from 1 pm
For Medical Advice and Urgent Medical Attention that cannot wait until the Practice re-opens, please dial 111 for the NHS advice centre - CALLS ARE FREE FROM MOBILES AND LANDLINES

Training Afternoon Schedule 2019
Wednesday 13th February 2019
Tuesday 19th March 2019

Blean Branch Surgery
Open Monday to Friday 8.00 am to 12.00 noon.

Chartham Surgery
Open Monday to Friday 8.00 am to 6.30 pm
Wednesday open until 7.15 pm

Please click the below link to find dates of all Bank Holidays in the UK
https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

With more Government funding, we have been able to build on the many services we already provide. This funding allows us to open longer hours, including weekends and bank holidays.

We are able to offer Improved Access to routine primary care services from 8 am to 8 pm five days a week, at the weekends and on bank holidays.

These services may be available at the Northgate Medical Practice site, or with local collaboration, may be provided at other local Canterbury GP Practices. Cover for Sundays and on Bank holidays will currently be provided outside of the Canterbury locality in Whistable and Faversham.

Primary care providers will , with your consent, be able to access your medical records on the computer and be able to update your records in real time.

NORTHGATE MEDICAL PRACTICE EXTENDED OPENING HOURS

As you may be aware from the reports in the press, the Government are keen that all GP surgeries are open longer and offer different appointment times to their patients.

Appointments are available Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday evenings* for both GPs and Nurses and are bookable in advance. The GPs at the Practice are on a rota system, so may not have a regular evening session, but if you wish to be seen by a particular Doctor, please be aware, that there may, in some cases be a short delay in one becoming available for the GP you are requesting.

Please note that these evening appointments are available to all patients. Appointments are available to be booked in advance, others may be available on the day.

Please check out the dates when the Surgery will be closed on the training afternoons as we will be unable to offer late appointments on those days.

For urgent medical advice and treatment when the Practice is closed, please dial 111 for more advice.

* On some occasions these late evening sessions may be changed when they fall on Training Days, Bank holidays or on special occasions such as Christmas Eve, New Years Eve when we close at 6.30 pm.