Current News and Information

• All pregnant women
• chronic (long-term) respiratory disease,such as severe asthma, COPD or bronchitis,
• chronic heart disease, such as heart failure,
• chronic kidney disease,
• chronic liver disease,
• chronic neurological disease, such as Parkinson's disease or motor neurone disease,
• diabetes, or
• a weakened immune system due to disease (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment (such as cancer treatment).

Patient Reference Group

The practice are looking for patients who are willing to join a patient reference group (PRG).  Members of this group would be contacted (usually by email) and invited to express an opinion on matters such as survey results or proposed changes to the running of the practice.  If you would like to be involved, or if you would like further information, please ask at reception of contact Trish Thomas - our Patient Services Manager.

Text Messaging Appointment Reminders

We have introduced an appointment reminder service which will send an appointment reminder via a text message to patients who have pre-booked appointments more than 24 hours in advance.  We now need  to record up-to-date mobile phone numbers for patients to help us with this, so please check with the receptionist next time you come to the surgery that we have your correct contact details on our system.  We hope that this will help to reduce the number of missed appointments.

If we have your mobile telephone number and you receive text message reminders about your booked appointments, you can now cancel this appointment if necessary by texting back from the message you have received.  This will help us to allow unwanted appointments to be redirected to other patients, and saves you having to telephone the surgery at busy times to cancel appointments.

Protected Learning Time

The Warwickshire Primary Care Trust is encouraging local practices to participate in training sessions (protected learning time).  Currently these are being held on a monthly basis on Thursday afternoons.  The local Out of Hours Service handles the practice calls during this time to look after our patients.  If you do need advice or an appointment when the surgery is closed, then please either telephone 0300 130 30 40 or the practice telephone number 01788 540860 and your call will be directed to them. 

The practice closes at 12.30 pm on training afternoons and opens again on Friday morning at 8.30 am.

The dates we will close for staff training in 2011 are:

Thursday 9 February 2012;

Saturday Morning Appointments