Home Visits

We would like you to help your doctor by coming to the surgery whenever possible and home visits are only recommended for:

• The terminally ill
• The housebound patient for whom travel to the surgery by car would cause deterioration in their medical condition.
• Where home visiting makes clinical sense and is the best way of giving medical opinion.

Phone between 8.30 and 10.30 am to request a home visit for that day.

Home visits may be made:

• Following a conversation with a Health Care Professional it may be agreed that a seriously ill patient may be helped by a visit at home by one of our clinicians.

Home visits are not  appropriate for:

• Heart attack or severe crushing chest pain – dial 999 and ask for an ambulance.
• Fevers, cold, cough, earache, headache, diarrhoea, vomiting, back pain.