Welcome to Our Site!
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 2010Please 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 immunocompromisedHealthy 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/fitnoteSelf 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.