Welcome to Shaftesbury Medical Centre

We offer medical care of the highest standard.

We treat all our patients as individuals and we believe in sharing information about your care with you so that together we can make decisions about the best way to manage your care.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

13/3/20

NHS England have issued guidance to GP practices about the use of online appointments in relation to the current coronavirus outbreak.

Online access for GP appointments is removed due to Coronavirus. Sorry for any inconvenience created.  

In order to protect patients, all unnecessary visits to the surgery are to be avoided. You can no longer book a face to face routine appointment without speaking to a clinician. Telephone consultations will be available via our reception. Telephone triage will be available for urgent medical problems that cannot wait until the next telephone consultation.

If you are displaying flu like symptoms, please access NHS 111 services online https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19 or via telephone, as this WILL NOT be managed by the medical centre. We appreciate your patience at this challenging time at Shaftesbury Medical Centre

 Please see link below regarding information for the public about coronavirus 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do next.

If you are suffering with flu like symptoms, do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

PLEASE SEE THIS LINK TO COMPLETE AN ONLINE RISK ASSESSMENT

https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19

Patients Access

Register for an online Patient Access account now. 

Online access for GP appointments is removed due to Coronavirus. Sorry for any inconvenience created.  

FAXES 

Please note, Shaftesbury Medical Centre will cease to use a FAX machine, effective from 1^st April 2020,as per NHS guidance. We request that any correspondence which may have previously been sent by FAX, is now sent electronically to the following email address:  shaftesburymedical.centre@nhs.net

 Merger with King’s Road Medical Centre

We are in the process of a merger with King’s Road Medical Centre. CCG has been informed about this intention.  

Shaftesbury Medical Centre has one site and King’s Road medical centre has two sites (one in South Harrow and one in Eastcote). All 3 sites will remain fully open and active.    

We have informed the patients about the merger on the last Patient Participation Group Meeting held on Wednesday 6^th November 2019.  

The planned merger would give patients greater access to GPs, nurses and other primary care support services, and would also allow the both practices to function more efficiently.

This means patients will still be able to see the same staff in these locations for face-to-face appointments.

The partners of the existing two practices say: “A merger will bring benefits for our patients, enabling us as GPs to continue to offer high quality and diverse services; while streamlining some of our systems and processes to support patients better.

As a merged practice with a growing population, we want to deliver improved services for all our patients, giving them the best experience possible. We will also be better able to support those with complex, long term needs by sharing the resources and skills of our practice staff.

We want to reassure our patients that we don’t expect these changes to affect the way they use our services. This is a really exciting opportunity for the two practices and we believe it will bring great benefit to all patients.

Patient registration will be unaffected by the proposed merger.