Home Visits

Home Visits are reserved for the following groups of patients

• Housebound;
• Terminally ill;
• Patients who are severely ill and cannot be mobilised.

Please request visits before 11am whenever possible as this allows the Doctor to plan their day accordingly.

The doctors would like to stress that NO patient in definite need of a home visit will be refused. It may be that your problem can be dealt with by telephone advice, or that it would be more appropriate to send a nurse, or indeed arrange a hospital attendance.

We want to see patients as quickly as possible, and the best way is often to encourage them to come to the health centre, because your GP will have access to all your medical records, including those held on computer. There are also better facilities for examining and treating patients at the Health Centre. We cannot undertake home visits for reasons of convenience or lack of transport.

Please remember that several patients can be seen in the practice in the time that it takes to make one home visit. So please help us to help you and our other patients by visiting the surgery whenever possible. Some problems such as severe chest pains or shortness of breath are medical emergencies and you will be advised to dial 999.