There are three ways to request an appointment at the practice:
1. Online via the NHS app
- Click here to login to your NHS account.
- Select services.
- Select contact your GP about a health problem.
- Select continue to the accurx system.
- Confirm it is not an emergency or life-threatening.
- Fill in the form and submit it.
2. Online request form via Patchs Health
- Click here to submit your online form.
- Select contact my GP practice.
- Select continue with Patchs Health.
- Log-in to your account or create an account if you haven't already done so.
- Fill in the form and your contact details.
- Select submit.
To find out more about Patchs Health, please click here.
3. Phone the practice
- Call 0161 337 3467.
Please note, all calls are recorded for training and quality purposes.
Patchs Health is our online system for making requests such as appointments. The online request form asks a few simple questions. A GP looks at your answers and decides what to do next, based on how urgent it is. All requests go through Patchs. You can fill in the form via Patchs Health directly or the NHS app. If you call or visit us, our team will do it for you. Further information is available here.
Your appointment
However you choose to contact us, we may offer you an appointment by:
- telephone;
- face-to-face at the practice;
- on a video call;
- by text or email.
Appointments by phone, video call, text or email can be more flexible and typically result in faster help.
Cancelling or changing an appointment
To cancel your appointment:
- reply to your reminder text message;
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phone us on 0161 337 3467, Monday to Friday from 8am to 6:30pm (please note, all calls are recorded for training and quality purposes);
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visit the practice and speak with a receptionist, Monday to Friday from 8am to 6:30pm.
If you need help when we are closed
If you need medical help now, use NHS 111 online or call 111.
NHS 111 online is for people aged five and over. Call 111 if you need help for a child under five.
Call 999 in a medical or mental health emergency. This is when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.
If you need help with your appointment
Please tell us:
- if there is a specific GP, nurse or other health professional you would prefer to respond;
- if you would prefer to consult with the GP or nurse by phone, face-to-face, by video call or by text or email;
- if you need an interpreter;
- if you require a chaperone;
- if you have any other access or communication needs.
Home visits
If you are housebound and need an appointment, we will carry out a home visit. We will phone you first to understand what you need.
To request a home visit, it would be helpful if you phone the practice before 10 am so we can plan our clinical day. Please note, all calls are recorded for training and quality purposes.
Named accountable GP
All registered patients are allocated an accountable GP. The accountable GP takes responsibility for the co-ordination of all medical services and ensures they are delivered to each of their patients where required. This is to reassure patients that they have one GP within the practice who is responsible for ensuring that work is carried out on their behalf and for continuity of care.