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Cotgrave Surgery
The Health Centre
Candleby Lane
Cotgrave
Nottingham
NG12 3JG
Tel: 0115 9892398 or 9892579

Surgery times:
Monday	8.30am to 12 noon & 5pm to 6.30
Tuesday	8.30am to 12 noon & 5pm to 6.30
Wednesday	8.30am to 12 noon & 5pm to 6.30 Ante natal 2pm to 4pm
Thursday	8.30am to 12 noon CLOSED in the Afternoon
Friday	8.30am to 12 noon & 5pm to 6.30
Saturday	EMERGENCY surgery at Cropwell Bishop 9am to 11am (open to patients from Cotgrave)

The Receptionists are available at the Surgery from 8.30am to 6.30pm every weekday except Thursday (8.30 to 12noon). They will help you with all enquiries, but if you want results of any investigations, it would help if you would telephone after 2pm.

Emergency Out Of Hours
If you telephone the surgery, a recorded message will tell you how to contact the Out of Hours service. So, if you call from a public telephone, please have extra coins ready.

There is now a Nottinghamshire-wide GP co-operative covering the out of hours and emergency calls. Emergency telephone enquiries are dealt with by a fully trained nurse who is able to give advice or arrange further care.

One or more emergency centres are open during the night and holiday periods. Patients who are well enough will be asked to attend these emergency centres to see a doctor. Home visiting continues during the out of hours emergency periods for housebound patients.

During the day please phone your normal surgery if you require a doctor urgently. Saturday mornings, please telephone 0115 9892287. At all other times, please telephone 0115 9133000.

Appointments
You can arrange an appointment to see a doctor by phoning the Surgery or calling in and seeing the Receptionists. An appointment is for one person only. If two members of your family need to see the doctor, make two appointments. If you cannot attend your appointment, please phone the Surgery so that they can offer the appointment to another patient. If you need to see a doctor urgently, please explain this to the Receptionist and you will be given an appointment, though not necessarily with the doctor you normally see.

Home Visits
If you need a home visit by the doctor, please let the Receptionist know by 10am, but please try to attend the Surgery if possible.

Telephone Advice from the Doctor
If you need advice directly from the doctor, please telephone the Receptionist. She will make a note of your call and the doctor will phone you, normally after morning Surgery.

The Surgery Team
Cotgrave Surgery is part of the Belvoir Health Group Practice, which also has surgeries in Cropwell Bishop and Bingham. There are 11 doctors in the Practice. The following doctors form the team at Cotgrave:

Dr John Lowe	(qualified University of London 1971)
Dr Simon Holmes	(qualified University of London 1972)
Dr Sarah Grace	(qualified University of Nottingham 1984)
Dr Melanie Lewis	(qualified University of Wales 1987)
Dr Alexander Macdonald	(qualified Royal Free Hospital, London 1989)
In addition, there is usually an extra qualified doctor who is training to specialise in General Practice.

The Practice Manager is Marilyn Hemmett who has her office at The Surgery in Cropwell Bishop (tel: 0115 9893439)

The ancillary staff providing services in Cotgrave are:

Practice Nurses:	Jacqueline Gauntley, Trish Charnley, Wendy Korol
Midwife:	Lucy Ellicott
Health Visitors:	Marion Petch, Deborah Futers
District Nurses:	Liz Handbury, Paula Mathews
Surgery Manager:	Jane Richards

Health Promotion Clinics and Special Services
The Surgery offers a range of Health Promotion Clinics which aim to prevent illnesses from happening in the first place. These include Well Person Clinic (general health check), Health Screening for over 75s and Menopause Care.

The Special Services include Family Planning, minor operations, veruccae clinic, flu vaccination, immunisations for foreign travel, ante-natal clinic, children's immunisation, child development assessment, asthma clinic, diabetes clinic.

The Health Visitors give health care advice to all patients but especially to expectant mothers, families with young children, the handicapped and elderly.

Since April 1999, the Practice has been part of the Rushcliffe Primary Care Group, who work closely with the Health Authority to contract hospital and community services. At present we still offer easy access to General Surgery Outpatients, Physiotherapy, Dietetics and counselling and we are doing our best to ensure that these continue to be available.

More detailed information on all aspects of the Practice is provided in a free booklet available from the Surgery.

Hospitals

Queens Medical Centre	Tel: 0115 9249924 (accessible by 63/63A bus)
City Hospital	Tel: 0115 9691169

Self Help Groups

Self Help Nottingham has information about local self help groups and other sources of help in Nottingham and the East Midlands and also details of national organisations.
Telephone 0115 911 1661 (9.00am to 1.00pm weekdays) or email enquiries@selfhelp.org.uk .
They also provide support and training for groups in the Nottingham area and advice and help for people thinking of starting groups.
Further information, including a list of their publications is available on their website: www.selfhelp.org.uk