Home Practice Information Practice Services Useful Links and Information Appointments Book Appointment Online For appointment booking online via Patient Access eConsult Use eConsult to consult with your GP, for general advice about your condition, for administrative help including requesting a sick note or to change medication. Booking appointments GP and Paramedic appointments: All your consultations with Doctors and Paramedics will initially be carried out by phone and can only be booked on the day. Just call Reception or go online before midday - you can book online from 6.30pm the previous evening. We will still offer Duty Doctor appointments until 6.30pm each weekday, so you can access the help you need for urgent on-the-day issues, regardless of who your usual GP is. Click here to go to the Doctors’ working patterns section of our website where you can see which day you can access your usual GP. If there is another GP you would prefer to speak to regarding an on-going condition for which they have been treating you, you can book a call with them instead. When you call, our Receptionists will ask for a brief indication of your problem so that the Clinician will have an understanding of what you need before they call you back. It also helps us to prioritise those with the most urgent need. You don’t have to give this information if you would prefer not to. Your usual GP, or the Duty Doctor if it’s urgent, will call you back for a telephone consultation at some point during the day. For this reason, please make sure that you give us a contact number where we can reach you. Please note that telephone consultation times are approximate. If the Clinician you speak to decides that you should have a face-to-face consultation they will book the appointment for you to be seen. For urgent Home Visit requests, please call as early as possible on the day. Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, our Specialist Diabetes Nurse, and Pharmacists appointments: Appointments with these team members are not changing – please book as you did before. Why the change? Making it easier for you to speak to your usual GP helps us provide better continuity of your care There will be improved access to routine GP telephone appointments Makes it easier for you to get the most appropriate advice and help, more quickly Moving from the mostly face-to-face system we had before Covid-19 to one that is mostly by phone or video helps social distancing by reducing the number of people in the practice, and may save you a journey Making more appointments available to book online frees up phone lines Please also consider using the eConsult service We cannot book appointments for prescription requests. Instead please use the NHS App or Patient Access Cancelling an appointment If you cannot attend please call us to cancel as soon as possible so that the appointment can be offered to someone else. There are three ways to cancel: call us on 01235 512288 text us on 07434 613843 If you are registered for our online services, you can cancel online. Extended hours at the Neighbourhood Access Hubs Didcot Health Centre patients now have even better access to a doctor at the weekends and in the evenings. Neighbourhood Access Hubs, developed in 2015 by Principal Medical Limited (PML) on behalf of Oxfordshire practices, have extended their opening hours so that yet more patients can benefit. This is great news for the 300,000+ patients registered with the 36 PML GP Federation practices in the county. The aims of the service remain the same: patients needing a pre-bookable GP appointment at their own practice may be offered an appointment at a nearby practice with a local GP or nurse who has access to their medical records. This provides more appointments for patients during the day, the evenings, and at weekends whilst relieving GP practices of some of the pressure of providing treatment for minor illnesses. What does this mean for you? - No change in the process for appointments booked by 'phone or at Reception - You may be offered an appointment during normal or extended hours at a Hub location. Your practice can provide up-to-date information on times and locations of Hubs. Making more time available at the surgery means that we will be able to put more focus onto preventive care, offering longer appointments and concentrated treatment for patients with long term conditions and complex needs. In South West Oxfordshire a Hub is open on a rota basis weekday evenings from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, and operates from GP practices in Didcot, Wantage and Faringdon. On Saturday mornings, it operates from Woodlands Medical Centre, Didcot. Find out more about the Neighbourhood Access Hubs at www.principal-medical.co.uk/pml-services Home visits To arrange a home visit please contact the surgery before 10am on the day required. Your doctor will decide after speaking to you if a home visit is necessary. If you feel sure a home visit is essential, try to telephone before 10am so that the doctors can plan their visits. Always come to the surgery if at all possible as the doctor can see you more quickly this way. Home visits usually take place around lunchtime on the day the telephone call is made. These times are subject to change. It is not possible to guarantee doctor of choice as all visits are shared between clinicians. Housebound patients requiring a home visit are often cared for by the District Nurse team. Please see the District Nurses' page for more information. Contact Us Didcot Health Centre Britwell Road Didcot Oxfordshire, OX11 7JH Tel: 01235 512288 Website hosted by Squarespace.com By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. Accept Decline