Enhanced Access is a serviced commissioned by Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Commissioning Board (ICB) to provide a seven day service to patients. We are working in collaboration with the following practices to provide an out of hours service:
Dr Yerra – Gutteridge Medical Centre
Dr Ali – Gutteridge Medical Centre
Lane Ends Surgery ( Doclands Medical Centre)
The service is available Monday to Friday 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Saturday 9.00am – 5.00pm and Sundays 9.00am – 12.00pm. There will also be a Bank Holiday service (with some exceptions) but the times of this may vary.
Appointments are a mixture of face to face and telephone consultations, and you may be asked to travel to a different practice to be seen. As well as GP appointments, staff at the locality clinics will provide a range of appointments with Practice Nurses, who will be available to provide chronic disease reviews, smears and childhood immunisations, along with other Health Care Professionals.
Our staff can book these appointments for you, as we would for our weekday service. When the service is open our phone lines will divert automatically to the service, but you can also ring the Increased Access Service directly on 01772 529200.
Unfortunately, there is no facility to book or cancel appointments online for the Increased Access Service at this time.
Please note that once all availability is full, you may be directed to an alternative service, such as 111.
Please also be aware that the administrative staff working at the locality surgeries do not have access to patients’ full medical records and therefore will not be able to answer queries on referrals, prescriptions, test results, private work and entries to medical records.
Remember: In a genuine emergency, you should call 999.
Chest pains and / or shortness of breath constitute an emergency