Therefore, please do not expect your doctor to prescribe a drug for every problem. Discussion and advice may be far more useful and free from side effects.

The NHS website and Patient.co.uk are two excellent websites you can use free of charge.

They have powerful search functions so you can find what you need quickly.

We also have lots of advice via our website

This will allow you to see the right healthcare professional and avoids you having to wait on the phone. Complete an econsult here

Other Ways To Book An Appointment 

• Telephoning us on 01243 265222 between 8.30am and 6.00pm Mon to Fri. The same day appointments line is open 8.30am – 12.00pm.
• Download the NHS App
• Use SystmOnline

What can we offer on the day?

• Same day telephone consultations
• Daily Practitioner Lead Minor Illness clinics
• Same day GP appointments

The following can be booked in advance:

• Treatment Room Appointments
• Phlebotomy
• Chronic Disease Reviews
• Family Planning Appointments/smears
• GP appointments (up to 3 weeks in advance)

• This means that urgent appointments are available up to 20:00 during the week, and during clinics on a Saturday and Sunday.
• This aims to improve access to GP appointments and help local people to get the help and support they need.
• The service is run by Innovations in Primary Care (IPC), a not-for-profit company owned by local GP practices.
• The appointments will be available at local GP access hubs, run from GP surgeries, and they will be both routine and urgent appointments with a doctor, nurse or healthcare professional.
• The teams will see new illnesses when you urgently need to see a health professional, and offer planned appointments such as family planning and smear tests that can be hard to arrange whilst at work or when you are caring for family or a loved one.
• IPC has been running the GPAH clinics for the last three years, which has offered a very similar service, offering help for ‘Minor Injury Assessment & Minor Illnesses’.
• These clinics have been successful and helped local people to access the help they need outside of normal opening times.
• We hope that this roll out of the hubs across the whole of Coastal West Sussex will mean that all patients registered with a GP practice in our area can benefit.
• You book into the GP access hubs via your normal GP practice, and you may be offered an appointment at one of the hubs at the weekend if you call NHS 111 for urgent health advice and support. The hubs may be at your GP practice or they may be at a neighbouring GP practice locally in the community around you.
• The teams will have access to your medical records with your consent, and any care they provide will be added to your notes so your GP practice can continue any ongoing care.
• Patients can book into these appointments by calling your registered GP practice in the normal way, and they will be able to access the booking system and make sure you receive the help and support you need.

Please request a home visit before 10am if possible, giving the receptionist some idea of why you cannot come to the surgery. This makes it possible for the doctor to assess the necessity and urgency of your case and plan their rounds.

It is better to see the doctor at the surgery; you will usually be seen more quickly this way and at the surgery it is often possible to carry out tests and investigations which cannot be done at home. It does no harm to bring a child with a temperature to the surgery, and we have facilities to separate infectious patients from others waiting to be seen.

Telephone numbers for appointments and home visits 01243 265222

Either phone us on 01243 265222 or do it online using SystmOnline or via the NHS App.

We would much prefer to cancel an appointment (so someone else can use it) than waste it, so please let us know! Sadly each week about 60 appointments are wasted in this way.

In an EMERGENCY call 999.
Emergencies are situations that cannot be managed at home and may be life threatening