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The Cornwall Road Medical Practice website

Welcome to the website of the Cornwall Road Medical Practice. We hope the site will help you find out about those of us who work here and the services provided.

We also hope you will find the information sheets and links to other sites useful for you in managing your own and your family's health.

We are interested to hear how you feel our site could be made more helpful or useful - please see the feedback page for ways to let us know your views.

August Bank Holiday 2010

Please note we will close on Friday 27th August at 6.30 pm and re-open on Tuesday 31st August at 8.00 am. For assistance over this period please refer to our page of Opening times which includes out-of-hours telephone numbers. If your call is an Emergency then dial 999 and ask for an ambulance.

Swine Flu Latest

Vaccination is still the best way to protect yourself against this virus. If you think you fall into a priority group and would like to discuss this, please telephone the surgery. The priority Groups are:
        Any child over 6 months and below 5 years
        People of any age who are in an'At risk' Category
        Pregnant women
        Contacts of people who are immunocompromised

Healthy over 65 years are not included for this vaccine at the moment.

If you display symptoms of the illness you should telephone the surgery to speak to a GP.

You should telephone the surgery for further advice if you fall into any of the following groups:

    - You have a serious underlying illness
    - You are pregnant
    - You have a sick child under the age of one year
    - Your condition or your child's condition suddenly gets much worse
    - Your condition is still getting worse after 7 days (5 days for a child)

Sick Note to Fit Note

On 6 April 2010 the sick note will change and become the fit note. Your docotr can advise you whether, with some extra support, you could make an earlier return to work.
For more information please go to www.dwp.gov.uk/fitnote

Self certification

If you are absent from work due to illness for 3-7 days you require a self certification form it will remain available on our useful links but is also available from here: link

Looking for a new General Practice?.

We are currently welcoming new patients to our practice. Please visit or call us for details of registration.

How to Find us

Since our move from the centre of Dorchester last year we now have a surgery on the west of the Town. we are situated off Bridport Road the main thoroughfare towards Poundbury and to the Westbound A35

follow the link below to get a map

Map for the Cornwall Road Medical practice on StreetMap

Practice Profile

In the late seventies Drs Wright and Campion-Smith purchased the building on 15 Cornwall Road to continue their medical practice. Over the following years primary care became the focus for many more services, and with the ever expanding workforce the premises at Cornwall Road became a crowded place for both employees and patients. In the late nineties the practice started to look at alternative places to have a purpose built surgery. When Dr Andrew Riddoch took charge of the effort things started moving forward rapidlyand, together with our colleagues at the Prince of Wales Practice, in April 2007 we moved into the new premises, Frederick Treves House, on St John Way.

Security Notice

Information once received by the Practice is held with a high level of security and protected from unauthorised access. However we cannot guarantee the security of any information as it passes through you own ISP (Internet Service Provider). We suggest you bear this in mind if you are considering e-mail communication with the Practice. The alternatives of mail, telephone or attendance in person may be more appropriate for highly sensitive information.

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