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.
Openiing Hours over the Christmas and New Year period
Please look at our Opening Hours page for our opening times during the festive season or follow this link:
Opening HoursSwine Flu Latest
Swine Flu Vaccine: is now available in General Practice. If you are
in one of the Priority Risk Groups you will receive a letter in the
post inviting you to make an appointment. We ask that you do not
contact the Practice requesting a vaccination until you receive the
letter.
The National Pandemic Flu Service
is now operational. You should contact this service direct if you
feel you have swine flu symptoms. These symptoms will be:
- A high fever of 38 degrees centigrade
- accompanied by some of the following: Cough, Sneezing, Sore Throat,
Headache or General aches and pains
Do not come into the surgery if you are suffering these symptoms.
The National Pandemic Flu Service is available on the following:
www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu
or
phone 0800 1 513 100 or 0800 1 513 200 (text phone)
You
will need a 'flu friend' (someone who doesn't have swine flu) to
collect the antiviral drugs you may be issued. These drugs will
be available at a local collection point.
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)
Survey Results
Improving
Practice
General Practice - Assessment Questionnaire 11.08
The partners
and staff have reviewed
the findings of the GPAC report and compared the results with those
from the
previous year.
We thank all
patients who took the time and trouble to complete questionnaires.
We were
pleased to note that for almost every category we were at, or above,
the
national mean.
For
more details follow this link: Survey
2008
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.