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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.

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 Hours

Swine 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.

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