We can arrange home visits for:
- known housebound patients
- patients with medical conditions that make it impossible to attend practice
Wherever you can, please contact us before 10:30 am on the day you’d like a home visit. We try to make all home visits on the same day we get requests for them. Please note though, any non-urgent calls we get after 10:30 am may not get visits until the next day.
Home visits are at the discretion of the on-call doctor. The doctor who may wish to speak to you before agreeing to visit. This will help gauge the urgency and nature of the problem.
Please do not ask the doctor to visit unless you/ the patient is too ill to come to the practice.
In most cases, the practice is the best and the quickest place for doctors and nurses to see their patients. Our professionals can access all the patient’s records easily and have all the practices’ facilities at their disposal.
If we visit you at home and feel that your request was inappropriate, we may inform you so that you use our services more appropriately in the future. Please do not be offended, as we have a duty to use our resources effectively for the safety and benefit of all patients.
You can also be visited at home by a community nurse if you are referred by your GP. You should also be visited at home by a health visitor if you have recently had a baby or if you are newly registered with a GP and have a child under five years.
Remember: You do not have an automatic right to a home visit
GPs are required to consider home visits for medical reasons only. If you think you require a home visit please call the surgery before 10:30am. All home visit requests will be medically assessed to check if a home visit is appropriate.
ALWAYS PROVIDE A CURRENT LANDLINE/MOBILE NUMBER SO THAT THE DOCTOR OR NURSE CAN CONTACT YOU.