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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.

For general medical information and advice when the surgery is closed you can contact NHS Direct on 0845 46 47.

If you become unwell and need medical help you can telephone Dorset Urgent Care Service directly on 0845 600 10 13.

If your call is an Emergency dial 999 and ask for an ambulance.

CHANGES TO EXTENDED HOURS 1 JUNE 2011

You will now be able to book a later appointment with the Practice Nurse as well as a GP after 6.30 pm Wednesday evenings. Please see our opening times section for further details.

FLU VACCINATIONS 2011/12

We recommend Influenza Vaccination for our patients who are either in a clinical 'at risk' group, ladies who are pregnant or anyone who is over the age of 65. Please make an appointment with Reception. The vaccination programme will start in October.

Sick Note to Fit Note On 6 April 2010 the sick note changed and became the fit note. Your doctor 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

We are to be found on the west of the Town. On the edge of the new Poundbury village we are located on St John Way immediately behind St John Ambulance Headquarters off the roundabout.

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.