Home Visits
We prefer to see patients in the Surgery for the simple reason of time
and facilities. We can see five patients in the Surgery in the
same time needed for one home visit, and the facilities, instruments,
testing equipment, assistance etc... are all more readily available.
If
your condition is such that you cannot attend the Surgery, please
try and request a visit by 10.30am to help the doctors plan their
working day.
Out
of Hours
The
Surgery premises are open from 8.00am until 6.00pm or whenever the last
patient leaves, whichever is the later. The exceptions to this are at
Tangmere, which closes for lunch each day between 1.15 - 2.15, and closes
at 4pm on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Between 6.30pm and
8.00am, and all weekend, your healthcare becomes the responsibility
of Western Sussex Primary Care Trust. They have employed West Sussex
Doctors on Call to provide this service, and they can be contacted on:-
01903 690111
Emergency Surgeries in the evenings and weekends are to be held at the
Fracture Clinic, adjoining the A&E Department at St Richard's. These
emergency surgeries, for which you must ring the above number beforehand
to arrange an appointment time, are for urgent matters that cannot wait
for your own surgery to re-open.