Stamford House Surgery

APPOINTMENTS

We are now back to seeing patients face to face where appropriate.  We have pre-bookable appointments every afternoon and on the day appointments each morning.  Patients should telephone the surgery at 8 am for a same day appointment.  These appointments do quite often get filled and patients will then be asked to telephone the following morning. 

We are not an emergency service, if you feel your condition is an emergency, call 999 or attend the Accident and Emergency department at your nearest hospital. 

Patients telephoning the surgery with general enquiries are to ring after 2pm.

Please be patient with our staff at this challenging time and do not get angry with our reception staff as they are following clinical guidelines.

Sorry for any inconvenience. 

For the latest COVID-19 advice please visit www.nhs.uk.

If you have travelled to an affected area or had contact with a person with a confirmed case of COVID-19, please do not go to a GP surgery, Pharmacy or Hospital. Use the NHS 111 online service 111.nhs.uk/covid-19 to find out what to do next. 

Sick / Fit Note Requests

The Government’s rules around issuing a sick note (MED3) are that a medical professional can only issue a Med3 when an individual has had more than seven continuous calendar days off sick due to an illness (including weekends).

For any period of illness less than seven days, you are able to complete a self-certification and provide this to your employer. An SC2 can be downloaded from the internet. In the unlikely event that your employer does not accept a self-certification then your doctor may be able to issue a private sick note for which you will get charged.

In light of the current Coronavirus situation, it is inevitable that a number of employees may be required to quarantine themselves at home, for example due to the nature of recent travel, or because other members of the household are showing symptoms even in the absence of any symptoms of an illness in the employee. In these cases, your GP will not be able to issue a sick note as the time off work is not due to an illness and is not affecting your ability to work, but rather is a precaution to avoid transmission of any illness that is yet to produce symptoms.

We therefore expect your employer to be sympathetic if you are required to self-isolate for 14 days and to understand that the reason for this is to protect the welfare of your work colleagues and the wider community. We understand that you may also be able to contact NHS 111 to request confirmation of the suspected Coronavirus diagnosis, to show to your employer if needed.

Whilst we appreciate this may cause some difficulties between you and your employer, equally GPs have a responsibility to prioritise the assessment and management of the healthcare needs of patients who are acutely unwell, rather than spending time dealing with requests for sick notes, particularly when they are not in a position to issue one.

This briefing has been written for and on behalf of your GP surgery so please accept this as a reply to any request for a sick note/letter from the surgery.

Many thanks for your continued understanding.

Opting out of Sharing Patient Identifiable Data

This has now been postponed to September 2021.  However if you wish to opt out, please obtain a form from the surgery to complete and return.

Friday 19th July 2024

We are currently affected by the widespread IT Outage.  We are unable to access our Clinical Systems at present to book any appointments or request prescriptions or results.  For any medical emergencies please attend either A and E or the walk in centre at Tameside Hospital.

Sorry for any inconvenience, this is however out of our control.

If you wish to request an online Consultation please click the link below.  We will triage your request and respond within 48 working hours with either advice, an apmt (this may be the next routine available apmt) or signpost you to an appropriate service.

This link also allows you to request information about your symptoms, request fit notes and allows us to triage and book appointments as necessary.  We encourage patients to request telephone consultations and if appropriate book appointments through this system.  Please take a look ………...

Please click the link below:

https://florey.accurx.com/p/P89609

The doctors and staff at Stamford House Medical Centre in Ashton-Under-Lyne are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.  We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

In addition to everything you need to know about the practice you will also find a wealth of health-related information in the menu on the right hand side. 

If you think you require any travel vaccinations, you are required to complete a form from the surgery, return this and then a Clinician will look into this.  This must be at least 8 weeks prior to your travel or else we may direct you to a travel clinic.  We now only offer the NHS travel vaccinations, if you require any additional vaccinations, please book with a travel clinic.

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Christmas and New Year 2023/2024

 Opening times over the festive period:

 Friday 22^nd December            open as usual

Monday 25^th December           Closed

Tuesday 26^th December           Closed

Wednesday 27^th December      open as usual

Thursday 28^th December          open as usual

Friday 29^th December                open as usual    

Monday 1^st January                  Closed     

For non-urgent medical assistance during closures, please ring 111

In a medical emergency, ring 999

Opening Times

Each Saturday an Extended Access Surgery is open for all patients registered with a surgery in Ashton.  These are pre-boooked appointments only, bookable through your own surgery.

The Surgery will close at 12:00 pm for staff training and will re-open at 08:00 am the following day: