Appointments

 

For non-urgent issues, please follow the guidelines below and choose the right service. An appointment may not be necessary.

This will help us to be more efficient by making an appointment available to you when you need it the most.

Minor illness? Think Pharmacy First

Pharmacists can give you advice on a range of conditions and suggest medicines that can help

They may also be able to offer treatment and some prescription medicine for some conditions, without you needing to see a GP (this is called Pharmacy First).

How to Book an Appointment

Contraception

Getting the contraceptive pill without a prescription

You may be able to get the contraceptive pill from a pharmacy if you need to:

  • start the contraceptive pill for the first time
  • take the contraceptive pill again after a  break from using it

If you already have a prescription for the contraceptive pill, you can use the prescription as usual. Or you can get the pill from a pharmacy without a prescription if you prefer.

Find a pharmacy that offers the contraceptive pill without a prescription

Alternatively, Book a nurse appointment

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Injection

Book a nurse appointment

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Child Immunisations

Book a nurse appointment

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Blood Pressure Check

Get a free blood pressure check

You can get a free blood pressure checked at a pharmacy without seeing a GP, if you:

  • are aged 40 or over
  • live in England

You cannot get a free blood pressure check if you:

  • already have high blood pressure
  • have had your blood pressure checked by a healthcare professional in the past 6 months Some pharmacies offer a free blood pressure check.

Find a pharmacy that offers free blood pressure checks

Alternatively, Book a nurse appointment

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Stitch Removal

Book a nurse appointment

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Dressing

Book a nurse appointment

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Smear

Book a nurse appointment

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Coil or Implant

Book a nurse appointment

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Sickness Certificates (Fit Notes)

You must give your employer a doctor’s ‘fit note’ (sometimes called a ‘sick note’) if you’ve been ill for more than 7 days in a row and have taken sick leave. This includes non-working days, such as weekends and bank holidays.

Visit our Sickness Certificates page

Long Term Conditions Review

Text about when to visit Klinik for a Long Term Conditions go here.

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Travel Vaccinations

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.

Visit our Travel Information page

I want to speak to a clinician

If you would like to speak to a clinician for a health problem, please follow the link below

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I have been asked to follow up with a clinician

Text about when to follow up with a clinician goes here.

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Home Visits

Visit Klinik to request a home visit

If you are unable to use the online request link above and it is impossible for you to attend the surgery on medical grounds please telephone us on 020 8660 8292 preferably before 11am. A doctor may phone you back as it may be that your problem can be dealt with by receiving telephone advice. Home visits are only available for patients who are housebound because of illness or disability, not unfortunately because of transport issues.  

Please try to ensure that:

  • A responsible person makes the request
  • You give full details of the patient (name, address, phone number)
  • You give some idea of the problem (this helps us to prioritise urgent cases)
  • You can give directions if necessary.

If the problem is urgent, please tell us.

Please remember that several patients can be seen in the practice in the time that it takes to make one home visit. Also there are better facilities for examining and treating patients at the surgery.

How to Cancel an Appointment

If you are unable to keep your appointment, please give us as much notice as possible so that your appointment can be offered to someone else.

Can cancel your appointment using Klinik or The NHS App. Alternatively call reception on 020 8660 8292. Do as soon as possible, and at least 30 minutes before your appointment time. This will enable us to offer your appointment to someone else.

We understand that very occasionally that there may be mix-ups or communication errors in providing patients appointments. However, booking appointments and not attending without informing the practice (DNAs) means that someone else who may desperately need an appointment is denied medical care. We do not feel that this is acceptable behaviour from patients. Not only is this costly to the NHS but this is also detrimental to the health of our other patients.

Chaperones

You are entitled to have someone to accompany you to any appointment at the practice.

Read our Chaperone Policy

Out of Hours

Croydon GP Hubs

Need to see a GP but can’t get an appointment? Our GP Hubs can help.

Call NHS 111 before you go to pre-book an appointment or wait to be seen without an appointment at one of our GP Hubs in Central Croydon, Purley, or Parkway.

Visit Croydon GP Hubs

Life Threatening

Call 999 or go to A&E now if:

 
  • you or someone you know needs immediate help
  • you have seriously harmed yourself - for example, by taking a drug overdose

A mental health emergency should be taken as seriously as a medical emergency.

Find your nearest A&E

Urgent But Not Life Threatening

Visit an urgent care centre if:

 
  • You have an urgent medical issue requiring on the day attention

Find Urgent Care Services

Non-urgent

Use NHS 111 if:

 
  • You need help now, but it's not an emergency

There will be someone to provide you with advice and to direct you to a clinician if it is necessary.

Visit NHS 111 Online