CCA Care Partnership

Practice Information Leaflet

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

Dr Animesh Sinha - Culcheth

Dr Sanaa Khalil - Culcheth

Dr Vlasta Dvorak -Culcheth

Dr Sammy Syed -Chapelford

Dr EstiAcha- Chapelford

Dr Judit Sala LLuma - Appleton

NURSES

Sarah Mitchell - Culcheth & Appleton

Catherine Cirulis - Culcheth

Julie Brookes - Culcheth

Gill Forrest –Chapelford

Ann Bartholomew - Appleton

HEALTH CARE ASSISTANTS

Julie Knowles - Culcheth

Linda Gibson - Chapelford

Lynne Bethell- Appleton & Culcheth

MANAGEMENT STAFF

Sharon Wood - Operations Manager

Shelley Moores- Practice Manager - Culcheth

Liane Glynn - Practice Manager – Chapelford

Glenda Curry – Practice manager - Appleton

Sue Bloomfield - QOF & DES Co-Ordinator

Paula Pucill - Business Manager

PRACTICE COMMITMENT

Our goal is to enable patient’s engagement, in providing and continually offering quality care for all, and to encourage shared decision making between patients, GP’s and clinicians at all times.

SURGERY ACCESS

All our sites are easily accessible from all the main road routes, bus and train stations. (Please see our website for location maps)

ACCESS FOR THE DISABLED

The Practice has access for wheelchair users and disabled toilet facilities are available. We also have lift access to services on the first floor at our Culcheth site and all sites have disabled parking.

HOURS OF OPENING

Monday - Friday 08.00-18.30

We offer an extend surgery hours till 20.00 at our Culcheth site on a Tuesday.

Patients from any of our sites can attend these sessions

In order to ensure continuing education for our staff we allocate the last Thursday afternoon of every month as protected learning time. On such occasions we are closed.

MAKING AN APPOINTMENT

To make an appointment:-

  • Phone the surgery
  • Speak to reception

You may see any Doctor at any of the CCA Care Partnership sites.

We offer a text messaging service to all our patients to ensure you do not forget your appointment. If you would like to take advantage of this service, please provide your mobile phone number to our reception staff. You will then automatically receive confirmation and reminders.

Please remember to let us know if you are unable to attend for a booked appointment every missed appointment is a cost to the NHS

HOW TO REGISTER

If you move into the practice area registration forms are available on our website or at reception for your completion.

TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS

We offer a comprehensive telephone consultation service if you feel that your medical problem can be dealt with over the telephone, please talk to our reception team who will arrange for a Doctor to call you.

DISPENSING

Each of our sites has a pharmacy alongside the surgery to facilitate rapid dispensing of your prescription. The pharmacy will also provide advice and can provide over the counter medicines.

Opening Times

Culcheth - Timms & Parker

09.00-13.00 – 14.00-18.00 Monday - Friday

Saturday morning 09.00-13.00

Culcheth - CO-OP

09.00-18.00 Monday – Friday

Saturday 09.00-13.00

Chapelford - Hall & Stevens

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday – 08.30-13.00 – 14.00-18.00

Thursday – 08.30-14.30

Appleton - The Co - op Pharmacy

08.45 – 18.00 Monday – Friday

HOME VISITS

If you really feel too unwell to come to the surgery, please call before 9.00am to book a home visit. Home visits take up a great deal of time, so we do ask, whenever possible please try to come to the surgery

PATIENT CHOICE

We always respect your rights as a patient to express a preference in regard to choice of practitioner; however there may be times where your preference cannot be met due to sudden illness or same day appointments. On these occasions we ask for your understanding and co-operation.

CHOOSE & BOOK

Choose and Book is a service to allow you to choose your hospital or clinic and book your first appointment.

When you and your GP agree that you need an appointment, you can choose which hospital or clinic you go to, the date and time of your appointment.

If you are unable to deal with this yourself or need support in making your appointment, please call our referrals team, and they will organise your appointment for you

OUT OF HOURS

Should you require URGENT assistance when the surgery is closed you should follow the process detailed below:-

FIRST PORT OF CALL: NHS 111

Call 111 to reach a team of highly trained advisers who are also supported by experienced nurses. Once through on your call the adviser will ask questions to help assess your symptoms, give you advice or redirect you to an alternative appropriate service.

NEXT STEP FOR URGENT NEED – THE WARRINGTON OUT OF HOURS SERVICE

This service is based out of Warrington Hospital:-

 Warrington Hospital, Lovely Lane, Warrington, WA5 1QG

Telephone 01925 650999

FOR A MAJOR EMERGENCY

You should call 999. This might include chest pains and/or shortness of breath as an example.

REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONS

There are many ways you can request a repeat prescription:-

Tear off the slip of your prescription and post it to us or drop it off

at the surgery, or why not make it easier and visit our website, click

on“repeat prescriptions” and fill out the online form.

Please allow 2 full working days for your prescription to be processed once it has been requested.

CERTIFICATION FOR ILLNESS

You do not need a certificate for your employer if you are absent from work through illness for seven days or less, you can use a self-certification form (SC2) for the first week which you can get from the website or at reception, after the first week you will need to make an appointment to see a doctor for a Med3 form.

TRAVEL VACCINATIONS

If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you will need to make an appointment with a practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries you are visiting to determine the vaccinations required. You should ensure you leave sufficient preparation time in advance of having any travel vaccinations.

SUGGESTIONS & COMPLAINTS

We always welcome feedback and suggestions that you may have to help us improve the service we provide at our surgeries. If you wish to make a complaint, please could you write to the Practice Manager who will deal with it under our complaints procedure.

RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

In order to provide adequate & informed care for you we are obliged to keep records. This is increasingly done using computers. We comply with the Date Protection Act 1998 and other guidance on privacy and data confidentiality and we take this very seriously.

In order to manage services and improve the quality of care we provide we may need to share some information on practice activity e.g. with the Department of Health and other NHS bodies. Whenever possible this information is anonymised i.e. names and other identifying details are removed.

Information is NOT shared with any third party outside the Health Service (e.g. Insurance, employer, solicitor) without your explicit consent and agreement. We are obliged by law to provide certain information e.g. notification of certain infectious diseases.

Please be aware that CCA Care Partnership takes a zero tolerance approach to any patient or visitor who verbally or physically abuses staff members.

USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS

NHS 111 111

Warrington Hospital 01925 635911

Samaritans 08457 909090

Citizens Advice Bureau 01925 246994

PATIENT VOICES GROUP

At CCA we have an active and growing Patient Voices Group. The aim of this group is to ensure patient evolvement and engagement in regard to services provided including what, where, when and of how we ensure quality at all times. We will always welcome new members and would love some younger members of our practice to get involved.

USEFUL WEBSITES

We keep our website up to date so please make use of it. If you have ideas in regard to how we might improve it, please contact our Practice Manager.

Please visit our website which is packed full of useful information for you.

CCA CARE PARTNERSHIP SURGERIES

Culcheth

Jackson Avenue, Warrington WA3 4DZ

Chapelford

Burtonwood Road, Great Sankey, Warrington WA53AN

Appleton

45 Dudlow Green Road, Warrington WA4 5EQ

01925 763077

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