The Surgery, Great Massingham

Drs Burgess, Phillips, Black & Hall

SURGERY OPENING HOURS

AT MASSINGHAM AT DOCKING Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm Mon, Wed, Fri 8.30am - 6.30pm - Tues, Thurs 8.30am - 12 noon

For appointments and routine enquiries, please contact the surgeries during these hours only.

When at reception, if you would like to speak privately to a member of staff, please ask and we will do our best to enable you to do this.

WELCOME TO OUR PRACTICE

This website has been prepared to help you get to know how our surgeries are run and how you can get the best from them.

If you have recently joined us, so that we can get to know your health needs, please make an appointment with our nurses for a New Patient Health Check as soon as possible.

VISITORS

If you are a visitor to the area, or have friends or relatives staying with you who need medical attention, we will be pleased to help.

PRACTICE COMPUTER SYSTEM

Practice staff use the computer system in order for them to be able to do their daily work. That is:

•	Arrange appointments
•	Prepare prescriptions
•	Recall patients

Access to sensitive information is restricted for anyone other than the doctor.

All practice staff, clinical and non-clinical, are required to treat patient information in the strictest confidence.

All have been given training in their responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998.

HEALTH INFORMATION

You can access free and impartial advice on health, illness and disease by clicking on www.patient.co.uk

Easy to search reliable health information – specifically for childhood concerns
http://www.yourchildshealth.nhs.uk/

OTHER USEFUL LINKS

• The NHS website can be accessed by clicking on www.nhs.uk

• The Macmillan & Hudson Palliative Care Centre, Wisbech can be contacted for information about different types of cancer or other progressive diseases.
Email: millan@VSNCH.freewire.co.uk or telephone 01945 466312

• The Cancer Information Centre at Norfolk & Norwich University hospital can be contacted for information on different types of cancer, cancer treatments, control of symptoms, local sources of support and complementary care.
Email: cancer.information@nnuh.nhs.uk or telephone 01603 287048

• For information about common foot problems visit the Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists' website - www.feetforlife.org/

• To find out all about the "fpa" (formerly The Family Planning Association) visit: www.fpa.org.uk/. This will give you details of local clinics including telephone numbers and maps.

• The Mancroft Advice Project, better known as MAP, is an independent information, advice and counselling service for young people aged between 11 and 25. For more information visit: www.map11-25.org/youth/index.htm

The Practice's Freedom of Information Publication Scheme Click here to download the Practice's Publication Scheme in Word format or Click here to download it in plain text format

Practice News and Notices

The Surgery Notice Board.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The Docking Temporary Surgery will be closing business at 12 noon on Friday 3rd September.

The new Bayfield Surgery Docking, will open on Monday 6th September, 8.30am.

The new address for the surgery will be:

Bayfield Surgery, High Street, Docking, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE31 8NH.

Telephone numbers will stay the same.

Many thanks for your patience and support during the refurbishment.