Poplar Street Surgery

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01942 481 680

Poplar Street Surgery

Poplar Street, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, M29 8AX

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Poplar Street Surgery, Poplar Street, Greater Manchester

telephone: 01942 481 680

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Services Available

CLINIC SERVICES

The following services are available at the surgery:
 
  • GP Appointments
  • Nurse Appointments
  • HCA Appointments
  • Well Person Checks
  • Elderly Monitoring
  • Influenza Clinics (winter time)
  • Pneumonia Vaccinations
  • Maternity services
  • Child Health Development Clinics
  • Child Vaccinations
  • Health promotion
  • NHS Health Checks
  • Weight Management, Exercise advice and referral
  • Alcohol advice and referral
  • Screening Programmes
  • Sexual Health Services and Contraception advice
  • Smoking Cessation Services
  • ECG Clinics
  • Phlebotomy (blood sampling)
  • Joint injection
  • Palliative Care
  • Stroke and Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Diabetes Testing and Monitoring
  • Travel Vaccinations

Patients with Particular Needs

Our premises are fully compliant with DDA (Disability Discrimination Act).

 

EPS (Electronic prescription services)

The Practice provides electronic prescribing for ease of the patients; please nominate a local pharmacy if you are interested in this service

 

Repeat prescriptions
Requests for repeat prescriptions can be made by bringing in your repeat prescription slip (right side of your prescription) into the surgery, or online. Please ask Reception for more information regarding registering online.

 

Please do not request repeat prescriptions by telephone as this can result in mistakes. Please ensure we have 48 hours’ notice to check and issue the prescription.

 

Always request your medication in good time and do not run out!

 

Patient Online

We are now able to offer our patients, who have internet access to book, cancel and change appointments online and order medication.

If you wish to register for this service please speak to Reception staff and they will be able to advise you further.

 

Other services

We also provide other services which are not available on the NHS. These services include:

Sickness or Accident Insurance Forms, Private Healthcare Forms, Holiday Cancellation Forms, Fitness to Travel Certificates, HGV, Sports and Driving Medicals. Ask Reception for more details on fees.

 

Enhanced Services For This Practice

GP of Choice Scheme - Please be informed that this surgery is not participating in the GP of Choice Enhanced Service Scheme.

Out of Area Scheme - Please be informed that this surgery is not participating in the we are not participating in the Out of Area Enhanced Service Scheme.

GP Appointments

Booking a routine appointment

You can book a routine appointment by telephone, on line or by calling into the practice. This also includes booking a telephone consultation with a doctor or nurse.
 
You can express a preference to see a particular clinician when you book an appointment . You can book an appointment up to six weeks in advance and can also be booked via our on line services. Please ask at reception to register for this service.

Urgent appointments

The practice runs a pre-bookable appointment system, if you feel that your condition is more urgent, you can ring for an on the day appointment, these can go quickly so it is best to ring at 8am or as soon after. You can also request a telephone consultation with a Doctor or Nurse who will contact you after their surgery. The Receptionist will take a message and your contact number.

Home visits

If you require a home visit from a doctor, please inform the surgery before 10.30am and give the receptionist the precise nature of your illness. The doctor will make a house call the same day. Home visits should be only requested when the patient is too ill to attend the practice and could only be moved by ambulance. Non availability of public transport is NOT a valid reason for a home visit.

Extended Access Appointments, this is when the practice is closed

 

We also offer appointments within the community at hubs located at Bridgewater Medical Centre and Tyldesley Health Centre.
 

Telephone : 01942 482848

You can book an appointment at the practice by:

 

Calling Poplar Street Surgery.

 

Telephone : 01942 481 680

 

HCA & Nurse Appointments

Booking a routine appointment

You can book a routine appointment by telephone or by calling into the practice. You can also book a telephone consultation with a doctor or nurse.The receptionist will take a message and your contact number. You can express a preference to see a particular clinician when you book an appointment. You can book an appointment up to six weeks in advance and can also be booked via our on line services.Please ask at reception to register for this service.
 

Urgent appointments

The practice runs a pre-bookable appointment system, if you feel that your condition is more urgent, you can ring for an on the day appointment, these can go quickly so it is best toring at 8am or as soon after.You can also request a telephone consultationwith a Doctor or Nurse who will contact you after their surgery. The Receptionist will take a message and your contact number.

HCA & Nurse Appointments

We offer convenient times to see our Nursing Team to suit the needs of our patients these are:

 

  • Pre-bookable appointments
  • Booked appointments throughout the day
  • Home visits
  • Telephone consultations

 

You can book an appointment by:

  • Telephone 01942 483 121
  • Visiting the surgery
  • Online services, ask at Reception to register for this service

 

You can book appointments up to four weeks in advance.

 

Our Nursing Team is available for appointments relating to:

  • Diabetes Testing and Monitoring
  • Monitoring of Respiratory condition such as COPD and Asthma
  • Heart disease monitoring and annual reviews
  • ECG
  • Stroke and Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Travel Vaccinations (please ring or complete our request form to find out which ones when making your appointment)
  • Childhood Immunisations 
  • Smoking cessation
  • Well Person Checks
  • Elderly Monitoring
  • Influenza Clinics (winter time)
  • Pneumonia Vaccinations
  • NHS Health Checks
  • Weight Management, Exercise advice and referral
  • Alcohol advice and referral
  • Family Planning Advice
  • Sexual Health Services and Contraception advice
  • ECG Clinics
  • Screening Programmes

 

Clinics

Our Nursing Team are available for a wide range of clinics by appointment only. They offer the following clinics.

  • Diabetes Testing and Monitoring
  • Monitoring of Respiratory condition such as COPD and Asthma
  • Heart disease monitoring and annual reviews
  • Stroke and Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • ECGs, Spirometry, 24 hour BP
  • Travel Vaccinations (please ring or complete our request form to find out which ones when making your appointment)
  • Childhood Immunisations 
  • Smoking cessation
  • Well Person Checks
  • Elderly Monitoring
  • Influenza Clinics (winter time)
  • Pneumonia Vaccinations
  • NHS Health Checks
  • Weight Management, Exercise advice and referral
  • Alcohol advice and referral
  • Family Planning Advice
  • Sexual Health Services and Contraception advice
  • Screening Programmes
  • Phlebotomy (blood sampling)
  • CCBT (Computerised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
  • Joint injection
  • Hearing aid clinic

 

The practice has weekly antenatal clinics on Tuesday with the Community Midwife.

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

There are blood clinics at the practice on a Wednesday and Friday, please ask Reception for more information.

 

Alternatively, you can also attend the phlebotomy clinics based at Leigh Infirmary or book via the Community services. Please ask Reception for more information.

Directions

Poplar Street Surgery is approximately a 5 minute walk from Tyldesley town centre.

Public Transport

 

For those travelling by public transport, you can use any bus that would stop in Tyldesley and they there would be a short walk to the surgery.

 

Buses to Tyldesely are:

Out of Hours

How to receive medical help when the practice is closed

NHS 111
Tel: 111 (available 24 hours a day)
 

GP Extended Access Service

GP appointments are available at the GP extended access Hubs.
Call 01942 482 848 - Telephone lines are open.
9.30am to 7.15pm weekdays and 9.30am to 3.15pm weekends and Bank Holidays
 
Appointments are available 6.30pm to 8pm weekdays and 10am to 4pm weekends and Bank Holidays.
 
The hubs are located in the following areas:
  • Ashton
  • Leigh
  • Golborne
  • Pemberton
  • Hindley
  • Shevington
  • Tyldesley

Leigh Walk-In Centre

Open 7:00am – 9:00pm every day
Leigh Infirmary
The Avenue
Wigan
WN7 1HW

GP Alliance

For bookable appointments on:

Saturday 10 am to 4pm

Sunday 10 am to 4pm

Monday to Friday 6.30 - 8.30pm

Please call 01942 482 848 to be seen at one of our Wigan partner hub sites

 

Phone number and details are here:

http://www.wigangpalliance.org/home/

Wigan Out of Hours

If you have received your invitation to have your next Cervical screening test and would like to have it done outside of practice hours, Wigan GP Alliance now offer cervical screening appointments at evenings and weekends.

 

To make an appointment please phone 01942 482 848

 

Please see this leaflet for more information

 

About Practice

Other Practice Information

Useful Leaflets

Information on the Baby Blues

 

Early Years Factsheet

Season opening hours

Monday  08:00 - 18:30
Tuesday   08:00 - 18:30
Wednesday   08:00  -  18:30
Thursday   08:00  -  20:00
Friday   08:00  -  18:30
Saturday   CLOSED
Sunday    CLOSED
 
 
 

Macmillan Coffee Morning

 

Well Done to Nelson Street Surgery for the great efforts they put into the MacMillan Coffee morning last week. A massive total of £484.14 was raised on Friday!!! For this worthy cause. Thank you to everyone both staff and patients that helped and supported our event.  A very special Thank You goes to Sheila Speakman for all the hard work , effort, in baking cakes and organising the raffle. Well done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employee of the Month

Cancelling Your Appointments

Our text-to-cancel services allows you to send a simple text message directly to your practice to cancel your appointment, allowing it to be given to another patient.

By letting us know if you no longer need an appointment, we can ensure we offer as many available appointments as possible. 

Please note that text-to-cancel numbers are not answered and are used for text messaging only.

To cancel by phone

You can cancel by calling the surgery directly on 01942 481 680

Online Services for Poplar Street Surgery

Sign up to GP online services and you'll be able to use a website or app to: 
  • Book or cancel appointments online with a GP or nurse
  • Order repeat prescriptions online
  • View parts of your GP record, including information about medication, allergies, vaccinations, previous illnesses and test results
  • View clinical correspondence such as hospital discharge summaries, outpatient appointment letters and referral letters
 
The service is free and available to everyone who is registered with a GP. 
 
How can I start using GP online services?
 
Follow these steps to access GP online services: 
  1. Take photo ID (passport or driving licence) and proof of address (such as a utility bill) to your GP practice and tell them you want to start using their online services. If you do not have any ID then either a member of staff will have to confirm your identity or you may have to answer questions about personal information in your GP record.
  2. Fill in the short registration form that you are given by your practice.
  3. Once you have signed up, you will receive a letter with your unique username, password and instructions on how to log in. 

Patient Participation Groups

Our Patient Participation Group works to improve communication between the practice and its patients, to ensure the services we offer meet the needs of all patients. We are always looking for enthusiastic people to join the group, share ideas on how services could be changed or improved, and be involved in making those changes - for the good of the patients and the practice. If you are interested in getting involved, or would just like to find out more, please contact Simon Carr, Practice Manager.
 

Download Patient Participation Registration Form

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