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End of an Era

Dr Shaw has retired on 31st December 2019 and will be missed dreadfully by colleagues, staff and friends here at Whittle Surgery.  We would like to thank him for his many years of expertise, hard work and dedication to our patients.  We wish him and very long, happy, healthy and well earned retirement. Any patients with Dr Shaw as their named GP have now been transferred to Dr Fairhurst.  

Phlebotomy, Midwife, Podiatry Clinic Appointments

From the 1st October the Phlebotomy, Midwife and Podiatry Clinic will be held at Euxton - 114 Wigan Road PR7 6JW

COLLABORATIVE WORKING

01.07.2019 - As part of our collaborative we are now offering more additional appointments outside of our core hours. We will be offering Telephone Appointments and also Health Care Assistant appointments as follows:

Tuesday evening – additional GP evening telephone appointments

Tuesday evening – HCA appointments from 18.30-20.00

Thursday evening -   additional GP evening telephone appointments

Thursday evening - HCA appointments from 18.30-20.00

Friday early morning – additional GP telephone appointments

These appointments are in addition to our existing face to face  GP appointments on Tuesday evenings, Thursday evenings and the 2^nd Saturday of the month (2^nd and 3^rd on a 5 week month)

From 13th January 2018 we have been be working with other local practices (Withnell Health Centre, Drs Baghdjian/Jacobs at Chorley Health Centre, Preston Road Surgery & Clayton Brook Surgery), to provide you with access to a doctor every night until 20.00 during the week and Saturday & Sunday at varying times. Please see the "Opening Times" page for more details. 

PRACTICE NEWS

Whittle Surgery will only accept medication requests from you or your carer (apart from in exceptional circumstances by arrangement). If your medicine is currently ordered for you by your pharmacy or a dispensing company, you will now need to order it yourself directly from your GP practice. 

Why is this happening? 

It is important that you only order the medication that you currently require. Medicines that are not taken and are therefore wasted cost the NHS approximately £300 million every year. Locally, across Chorley and South Ribble and Greater Preston CCGs up to £6 million could be saved by reducing medicines waste.

Changes in Prescribing Policy-Self Care

Please view the Self Care page at the bottom of this home page for more information on the changes in prescribing recently introduced by Chorley & South Ribble CCG.

If you have any questions or concerns about these changes, please contact the CCGs’ customer care team on 01772 214601 or email customercare@chorleysouthribbleccg.nhs.uk

 Training

The surgery will be closed at 13.00 on the following dates in 2019 for training and education:- 14.01.20, 11.02.20, 10.03.20.

Out of Hours Cover

If you need urgent medical attention outside of our surgery hours please ring 111-they will be able to give advice and arrange appointments where necessary

Contact Details

We will be increasing our use of text messages and e-mail to contact you so please make sure you update and check your details on a regular basis.  This can be done at reception, through the online services or by using the "contact us" icon on this website. 

Opening Times

 Patient Feedback

Click on the "Patient Feedback" link at the bottom of the page to access our latest patient feedback

 Through this website we hope to improve our services to all our patients and enable them to find out the information required at the click of a mouse.  You can order repeat prescriptions online, fill out a pre-registration form , book appointments, send us suggestions, cancel existing appointments, change your name and address and much more.

You can find out information about medical conditions and diseases through our patient information links on the menu as well as keep up to date with all the latest practice news and developments.

To download our practice leaflet Click Here