Ivy Grove Surgery : General Practitioner (GP)

General Practitioner (GP) SHORTCUT ivy.gs/gp

Information on this service

REMOTE ASSESSMENT FIRST

We are booking telephone appointments on basis of clinical need and remotely assessing cases by telephone or video, and where clinically necessary, we will call patients in for a face-to-face review.

What example conditions does this service deal with?

Examples are shown below. Click the links to go to official NHS advice.

Abdominal pain
Allergies/urticaria/hives
Belly button, weeping
Bleeding from rectum (back passage)
Bleeding from vagina
Bleeding from vagina, after intercourse
Bleeding from vagina, after menopause
Blood in urine, no symptoms of infection
Breast lump
Change in bowel habit (especially if loose stools)
Chest infection (wheezing, persistent fever, difficulty breathing, bloody sputum, very unwell)
Complex cases
Cough, longer than 3-4 weeks
Coughing up blood
Crying baby
Deafness, adult
Deafness, one side only
Deafness, sudden
Diarrhoea, night-time, bloody or persistent

Difficulty swallowing
Dizziness/vertigo
Eczema, infected/inflamed
Erection problems/impotence
Eye pain, with no foreign body
Fever (high temperature) in child, unwell
Headache/migraine, persistent
Hoarseness, more than 3 weeks
Impetigo
Jaundice (yellow skin)
Kidney infection (e.g., loin pain, temperature, vomiting)
Loss of weight, unintentional
Lumps, hard, irregular shape, fixed in position, increasing size
Moles, changing in appearance
Mouth ulcers, lasting more than 3 weeks
Night sweats
Nipple discharge or rashes on nipple
Pain, at night, affecting sleep
Palliative care

Does this service accept self-referral?

Self-referral is not applicable

How do I get to this service?

Ring the surgery

01773 514130

Is there more info that I can look at?

We only visit the terminally ill, bedbound and those who would be harmed if moved. Please review our home visit policy and visit request information

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