Welcome to the Blake House Surgery Website
Our aim is to provide friendly, personal health care which combines the traditional values of General Practice with evidence based modern medicine, and we welcome new patients to the surgery.
If you wish to register you can do so on-line, or by calling into the surgery and completing the appropriate forms. All new patients will be invited to attend a new patient check with the Practice Nurse.
You can find out information about medical conditions and diseases through our patient information leaflets as well as keep up to date with all the latest practice news and developments.
We are always looking to improve our services so please fill in our patient survey or leave some feedback on our Contact details page or our Facebook page.
DR ALAN HOWLETT'S
RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Shebbear Shop Medication Collections
A reminder to our patients who live in and around Shebbear.
If you would like to collect your medications from Shebbear Shop, you will need to contact the surgery on 01409 231628 to register for this service.
Thank you.
NHS Patient Survey on Improved Access
The NHS are keen to seek the views of local people about how they can further improve access to GP appointments. Since the service was launched nationally in October 2018, they are now keen to find out people’s views on these hours and if they are in the most appropriate locations.
We have prepared a short and confidential survey to gather views that will take no more than 5 minutes to complete. It will give patients the opportunity to tell us about when they would like to be able to access GP appointments and where they would be willing to travel to access them.
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You can now book appointments to see a GP or Practice Nurse in the evenings or at the weekend from 8am to 8pm. Contact us on 01409 231628 to find out more.
Early morning, evening and weekend appointments
now available for North Devon Patients
As you may have heard, nationally GPs are being asked to offer their patients appointments outside of normal hours. The aim of the GP Improved Access Service is to make it easier for people to get an appointment at a time that suits them. This includes early morning, evening and weekend appointments.
In North Devon, a collaboration of local GPs have come together to provide this service for North Devon patients.
This new scheme is an extension of the usual GP practice services that patients across North Devon will be used to – it is not a walk-in or urgent service. Patients will still need to contact their practices directly to make an appointment.
When using the Improved Access Service, patients might not be able to see their usual GP or Practice Nurse and may have to attend a different GP surgery. If that is the case, the clinician they see will be from another GP practice in North Devon.
The practices involved in delivering this service across North Devon are:
Bideford Medical Centre, Bideford.
Wooda Surgery, Bideford.
Northam Surgery, Northam.
Brannam Medical Centre, Barnstaple.
Castle Gardens Surgery, Torrington.
Torrington Health Centre, Torrington.
Black Torrington Surgery, Black Torrington.
Hartland Surgery, Hartland.
Community Pharmacists based in Barnstaple, Bideford and Ilfracombe will also be offering additional appointments for North Devon patients.
From 1st October 2018, patients will be able to book face to face or telephone appointments at one or more of these surgeries to see or speak to either a GP or Practice Nurse or other health professional in the evenings or at weekends from:
08.00am to 08.30am - Monday to Friday
18.00pm to 20.00pm – Monday to Friday
09.00am to 12.30pm - Saturday
09.00am to 12.00pm - Sunday
If you are seeing a Doctor or Nurse in a surgery that is not your usual surgery, we will ask your consent for the Doctor or nurse to see your clinical records. Your records will not be accessed without your permission. This will enable your usual Doctor to see what investigations and treatments you have had.
To arrange an early morning, evening or weekend appointment, speak to the practice receptionist or member of the practice team or call the practice on 01409 231628.
Further information can be found at http://ndgp.co.uk/
Please continue to contact your surgery in the usual way during normal hours.
(Site updated 19/02/2020)