Clinicial Appointments

You can request advice from one of our Clinicians by messaging us through askmyGP or by calling our Patient Care Advisers on 01501 822256/01698 384482. It should be noted that they have particular areas of knowledge and experience. 

GP appointments are currently available at our Newmains site, located in Newmains Health Centre, with Dr Louise Begg.

Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Sinead Kelly, Debbie McCulloch, Nadia Benaouicha, Jackie Thomas & Nicola Sword

Assessment and treatment of acute minor and major illness

Nurse Practitioner for Mental Health, Allison Rae

Assessment, management and support of those with mental health conditions

Nurse Practitioners for Long Term Conditions, Heather Quin, Yvonne McDougall & Corrine Kennedy

Long Term Condition Acute and Annual Reviews

Blood Pressure Annual Review

Asthma Review

Pre-Diabetes Health Checks

Nurse Practitioner for Sexual Health and Family Planning, Carolyn McAdam

Cervical Screening

HRT advice and review

Contraception advice and review

Implant and Coil insertions and removals

General Practice Clinical Pharmacist

Medicines management 

Polypharmacy Review

Minor Illness

Home Visits

Please make every effort to come to the surgery to see our Clinicians where there is a full range of facilities to address your concern. Requests for home visits should be made before 10am.  These requests will be triaged and prioritised by the Practice. Home visits will only be carried at the discretion of the Practice.

You can be visited at home by a community nurse if you are referred by your GP Practice.

You should also be visited at home by a health visitor if you have recently had a baby or if you are newly registered with a GP and have a child under five years.

Missed appointments

If you cannot attend an appointment for any reason please inform us as soon as possible. There is a high demand of appointments and this would enable us to offer the appointment to someone else, even at short notice.

Missed appointments contribute to the difficulty some people experience in obtaining an appointment with a clinician. We take this matter very seriously as we strive to provide good access for everyone.

Each missed clinical appointment costs the NHS approximately £58 and around 5 and a half hours of clinical time is lost each week as a result of patients who do not attend their appointment (and do not cancel).

Our current Practice policy states if a patient does not attend three appointments within a 12 month period, and does not tell us why they could not attend before these appointments, we will request the patient be removed from our Practice list, as we constitute this as a breakdown in professional relationship.

Patients will be informed in writing of each missed appointment. If you receive one of these letters, and you believe you should not have for any reason, please get in touch.