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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

We offer 2 ways to book appointment pre-bookable and book on the day. You can book appointments up to 1 week ahead. Each week appointments are released on a Friday afternoon. Book on the day appointments are released at 8.30am that day.

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 Test

We offer this service to all women between the ages of 25 and 65 and is taken by our Practice Nurse. It is recommended that a smear test is carried out either 3yearly or 5 yearly depending on your age. 

Chronic Disease Management

All reviews are done by our Practice Nurse

Heart Failure

Stroke

Diabetes

Asthma

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Heart Disease

Our Practice Nurse also provides the following clinics

Travel immunisations

Influenza clinic (winter time)

Pneumonia vaccination. This is available all year round for over 65%u2019s

Well persons checks

Well Women check eg, smears, contraceptive advice.

Clinics

Baby Clinic/Child Immunisations

We hold a baby clinic on alternate Thursdays between 10.30am and 12.00. The Health Visitor is also available during these clinics. Please telephone the surgery to arrange an appointment.

Antenatal Clinic

By appointment on Monday afternoons, please telephone the surgery for further information.

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.

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

From Bootle area

Turn onto Knowsley Road, carry on down Knowsley Road to the very bottom then at the T junction turn Right A565 -Keep to the left hand lane and continue to roundabout (under the fly over) at the roundabout take the 2nd exit onto Princess Way A5036 -When on princess way take the 1st exit left onto Rawson Road -Continue down Rawson Road crossing Claremont Road -Continue on and you will pass Sandunes Nursery on the right, continue forward and the surgery is just on the right hand side opposite shops the Doric public house From Litherland area -Follow direction to Gorsey Lane/Sefton Road, B5422 in the direction as if you were travelling to city centre -When at the end of Sefton Road turn left at the roundabout, then at the traffic light (not pedestrian lights) turn right on to dual carriageway A5036 -Go over the flyover then at roundabout continue straight on, which takes you onto Princess Way A5036 -Go straight down princess way to the end, at the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto A5036 Princess Way, take the 1st exit left on to Rawson Road -Continue straight down Rawson road, over Claremont Road passed Sandunes Nursery were we are situation on the right opposite shops and the Doric public house.

Travelling from Crosby / Thornton

A565 which in a continuation from Formby Bypass -Continue forward on Liverpool Road following signs for Liverpool city centre -You will pass the following landmarks, Merchant Taylors School on the right hand side, straight on through the traffic lights; you will pass Crosby Plaza on the right hand side, carry straight on through the traffic lights. Continue forward and you will pass fire station on the right side, you will come to a set of pedestrian light just after the lights take your first turining on the left into Sandringham Road -Continue to the end of Sandringham Road then turn right onto Cambridge Road, take you first turning left which Rawson Road -Continue for roughly 150yds, the surgery is on the left hand corner. We do not have a car park but there is adequate parking on Rawson Road or Doric Street.

Travelling from motorway M57 & M58

When leaving the motorway follow direction to Seaforth Docks. Continue on until you reach the last roundabout which is under a flyover (as above), then follow the directions from the roundabout as stated above from Princess Way.

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 Rawson Road 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.

During the hours the surgery is closed our calls will be diverted to NHS 111. Calls to NHS 111 are free from both mobile and landlines. If you have a life-threatening medical emergency during these times please dial 999.

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 Rawson Road in the last financial year was £44,240.53 before tax and NI. This calculation is for 0 full-time GPs and 2 locum GPs, who has worked in the practice for more than 6 months.

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