Orrell Park Medical Centre

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Services Available

•  GP Appointments
•  Nurse Appointments
•  Well Person Checks
•  Child Health Development Clinics
•  Child Vaccinations
•  Smoking Cessation Services
•  Blood Tests
•  Travel Vaccinations
•  Find and Treat Monitoring
•  Stroke and Blood Pressure Monitoring
•  Diabetes Testing and Monitoring
•  BMI Monitoring
•  Cervical Screening
•  Family Planning Advice
•  Sexual Health Services

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

If you get regular prescriptions the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) may be able to save you time by saving you unnecessary trips to your GP. The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) allows your GP to send your prescription directly to your chosen pharmacy without a paper prescription.

Find out more about the Electronic Prescription Service visit http://www.hscic.gov.uk/epspatients or speak to your practice or pharmacist.

How using EPS could benefit you

If you collect your repeat prescriptions from your GP, you will not have to visit your GP practice to pick up your paper prescription. Instead, your GP will send it electronically to the place you choose, saving you time.

You will have more choice about where to get your medicines from because they can be collected from a pharmacy near to where you live, work or shop.

You may not have to wait as long at the pharmacy as there will be time for your repeat prescriptions to be ready before you arrive

Please speak to your nominated pharmacist to activate your EPS.

Is this service right for you?

Yes, if you have a stable condition and you:

• Don’t want to go to your GP practice every time to collect your repeat prescription.
• Collect your medicines from the same place most of the time or use a prescription collection service now.

This service is not suitable for all patients. It may not be suitable if you:

• Don’t get prescriptions very often.
• Pick up your medicines from different places.

How can you use EPS?

You need to choose a place for your GP practice to electronically send your prescription to. This is called nomination. This could be a pharmacy local to your home or work address. 

Ask any pharmacy or a member of the reception team to add your nomination for you. You don’t need a computer to do this.

Can I change my nomination or cancel it and get a paper prescription?

Yes you can.

If you don’t want your prescription to be sent electronically, tell your GP.

If you want to change or cancel your nomination, speak to your nominated pharmacist or dispensing appliance contractor. 

It is important to tell them before your next prescription is due or your prescription may be sent to the wrong place.

Is EPS reliable, secure and confidential?

Yes. Your electronic prescription will be seen by the same people in GP practices, pharmacies and NHS prescription payment and fraud agencies that see your paper prescription now.

Sometimes dispensers may see that you have nominated another dispenser. For example, if you forget who you have nominated and ask them to check or, if you have nominated more than one dispenser. Dispensers will also see all the items on your reorder slip if you are on repeat prescriptions.

Benefits of EPS

• More efficient and convenient for patients and staff.
• Reduces paper.
• Safer, faster and more efficient.
• Patients don't have to visit their GP for a prescription.
• Patients won't have a paper prescription to lose.

For more information visit http://www.hscic.gov.uk/epspatients or your pharmacy.

GP Appointments

GP appointments are available daily, please contact reception from 8am to make an appointment.  We also offer a number of pre bookable appointments.  You can pre book an appointment up to 5 days in advance.  We also offer an extended hours service every Tuesday between 6 pm and 8 pm.

We are a Training Practice, therefore we may have Medical Students at the practice at the time of your appointment.

HCA & Nurse Appointments

Cervical Smear Tests

We recommend that all women between the ages of 25 & 65 have a smear test taken every three years.

Counsellor

The G.P. will make a referral to the counsellor.

Vaccinations

We offer both routine and travel vaccinations.  Please make sure you have an appointment for your holiday jabs in plenty of time.

Please contact the surgery in September if you wish to have a flu jab.

Clinics

The Practice Nurse offers

Well Baby Clinic & Child Immunisations

By appointment with the Practice Nurse

Family Planning

The practice offers family planning advice and pre conceptual advice.  Please make an appointment with the Nurse Clinician.

Ante Natal Clinic

By appointment with the midwife. Please ask at reception for more information.

Asthma/CHD/Diabetic Clinics

By appointment only with the Practice Nurse

Well Person Checks

By appointment with the Health Care Assistant

Travel Risk Assessment

Our practice nurse holds a travel vaccination clinic for our patients. Please see this page for more information and to fill in the risk assessment form.

Blood Tests

The practice will supply you with a blood form if you need a blood test, this will either be given to you at  surgery or will be sent to you in the post as part of our Annual Review recall system.

The practice now supplies blood test service for all its patients.  We also provide this service for neighbouring practices.  Please ask for referral from your own GP.

Please check whether your form asks you to fast. If you are required to fast, please have only sips of water for 8 hours before the test. Please take any medication as normal.

You will need to contact the surgery between 7 to 10 days later to receive the results of your blood test and find out what you need to do next.

Directions

Orrell Park Medical Centre is located in the sensitively renovated "Trinity Church" at the junction of Orrell Lane, Rice Lane and Walton Vale.  

Out of Hours

GP 7 Day Extra Services

If you are registered with a GP surgery in South Sefton you are now able to book routine, non-urgent evening and weekend appointments with a Doctor, Practice Nurse or other Healthcare Professional through a new service, which launched on 1 October 2018.

GP Extra Services operates:
 Monday to Friday 5pm – 8pm
 Saturdays and Sundays from 10am – 1pm

Appointments must be booked as this is not a drop in centre. The receptionist at your practice can book these appointment for you. If you need further details please ask the staff.

When and where will appointments be available?

Litherland Town Hall
Hatton Hill Road
L21 9JL

How will patients access these services?

All patients registered with Orrell Park Medical Centre will be able to book appointments with their local extended access service via the practice.

Anyone contacting NHS 111 who may be appropriately seen by the extended GP access service will also be offered an appointment by the call handler.

Are there things the new services won’t offer?

These are not ‘list based’ services, so patients cannot register with them like a regular GP practice.  It is therefore not intended to offer all services that you would expect from a traditional GP practice.

Whilst the services will prescribe any medicines that patients’ need as a result of their appointment, they will not be able to issue repeat prescriptions.  This remains the responsibility of the GP practice the patient is registered with.

About Practice

Other Practice Information

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings (e.g. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. The average pay for GPs working in Orrell Park in the last financial year was £48,789.31  before tax and NI. This calculation is for 1 full-time GPs and 2 locum GPs, who has worked in the practice for more than 6 months.

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Cancelling Your Appointments

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Patient Participation Groups