Information regarding our Improved Access service for evening and weekend appointments
Monday to Thursday Enhanced Access Service
We are now offering additional morning appointments for our patients. These appointments are offered by surgeries in the South Devon and Torbay ICB area. This is a requirement (known as Enhanced Access) where practices ensure that across the week (Monday to Friday) practice's are open between 7am to 8am. To access these appointments please continue to contact your registered practice.
Weekend and Bank Holiday Improved Access Service
We are offering weekend and Bank holiday appointments situated in a central hub location. The hub location for our patients is Pembroke House Surgery, Paignton, TQ3 2EZ. Pembroke House Surgery has been selected as the “weekend and Bank holiday hub” as it is considered the most suitably based surgery geographically to serve 290,000 patients in the South Devon and Torbay area.
The appointments offered are by pre-booked appointments by contacting your local surgery and booking ahead. Patients will be able to be seen by a healthcare professional during these extended hours; we will be offering appointments with a GP, Practice Nurse and Health Care Assistant.
This service is very different to the current out of hours’ service where patients contact 111 in an urgent/acute situation that cannot wait until their practice is open again on the Monday. For any acute illness please still continue to contact 111. This new service is just for pre-booked routine care and is not for acute/urgent/walk in situations.
Please note that as this contract is being delivered at scale across the locality, you will not necessarily be seen by a Clinician known to you from your practice.
Please see our timetable below for the dates and times of our new service.
Pembroke House Surgery, 266 Torquay Road, Paignton, TQ3 2EZ
Fridays - 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Saturdays - 8.00am to 6.00pm
Sundays - 8.00am to 2.00pm
All Bank holidays – 8.00am to 6.00pm except Christmas Day 8.00am to 2.00pm
Consent:
Please note as this contract is being delivered at scale across the locality, you will not necessarily be seen by a GP, Practice Nurse or HCA known to you from your practice
To ensure that the Clinician you see has full access to your medical records, when you book your appointment the Administrator will ask you to consent to sharing your medical records. Once consent is gained the Clinician seeing you on the day is the only person who will have access to your medical record, this consent is valid for 28 days from the appointment date. It is essential that consent is gained for you to be able to have the appointment. If you feel you do not wish to provide consent then it will not be suitable for you to book the appointment.
Thank for you your co-operation and support and we hope you make full use of this new service.
Parking
Pembroke House Surgery:
Outside the surgery there is street parking available. If there are no spaces there is a council car park directly opposite the surgery.