Please see information below regarding Coronavirus and dedicated page on Coronavirus for full details

Welcome to Thistlemoor Medical Centre

Due to the current Coronavirus pandemic we are making changes to our service in line with NHS England advice. Please see the specific Coronavirus page for further details and see the bottom of this page, we will continue to update this page to keep you abreast of changes to the service.

We still offer face to face appointment for patients who need them. Cases will be assessed first as this give us the opportunity to help patients without putting them at risk.

Visiting our Practice?

All of our COVID-19 secure measures remain in place and this will not change when Government guidance changes on 19 July 2021.

Patients are asked to continue to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt, and to follow social distancing when visiting our GP Practice.

This follows the national Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Guidance for all healthcare settings and will help to ensure the safety of our staff and patients at all times.

Thank you for your continued support.

There are also appointments available at the Boroughbury hub and the Parnwell Surge Hub. If you would like a telephone or video consultation in the evening or weekend you can book an appointment yourself with the Greater Peterborough Network Hub service by clicking the link and selecting book appointment at the top. This is for a routine new problem only. Many of our Doctors contribute to this workforce in the evenings and on weekends.

https://greaterpeterboroughgps.nhs.uk/appointments/

We are a central Peterborough General Practice looking after over 28,000 Patients from our purpose built single site.

We are a teaching practice and help teach medical students from Imperial College and Cambridge University as well as training doctors preparing to be hospital specialists and General Practitioners.

The purpose of this site is to provide information to our current patients, future patients and people seeking information about our services.

If you are looking for information on how to register with our Practice to allow us to care for you please look at this section. Registration forms are at the bottom of this form - the general form and questionnaire as well as the under 16 year old forms.

We host other services that deliver endoscopy, colonoscopy, ultrasound scanning and aortic aneurysm clinics. If you are looking for information regarding these services please click on the relevant section.

We provide advanced access to our patient population by telephone, video consultations, web and email. Our talented team of healthcare assistants and nurses are also available to help. For patients who do not speak English as their first language we may be able to help through our team of clinical staff from different backgrounds.

MORNING SURGERY – CHOICE OF CLINICIAN

Our services are currently extremely in demand and we are seeing over 400 patients in our morning surgeries (we saw over 550 in January 2021!). Due to the coronavirus pandemic we are reviewing our access policies to protect our patients.

We continue to aim to allow any patient who wishes to be helped by us to have support. We hope you understand that waiting times could be longer during this period and your choice of clinician could be limited. We are helping patients first by phoning or responding on the internet, if we think a patient needs to be seen then we will call them to the practice for a review.

If you are pregnant and would like to self-refer to the midwife service please follow this link:

https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk/maternity/im-pregnant/peterborough-city-hospital-maternity/self-referral-form/

We normally offer a full general practice service including health promotion clinics for long-term conditions: diabetes, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), heart disease and high blood pressure. We are considering how these can be performed without the need for you to access our service. We also normally offer minor surgical procedures on site to remove skin lesions and insert and remove contraceptive devices but this is under review at the moment. Please see this section for more details. We are providing extra evening and weekend appointments over the winter period through NHS England's commissioning of extra appointments. These appointments will be pre-booked only and will be focussed on chronic disease appointments, we are reviewing how these can be delivered without the need for patients to attend the surgery.

Afternoon appointments are available from 3:30pm - 5:30pm daily except for Thursday when there is an emergency surgery only. Unfortunately there are a limited number of appointments and we will need to access each request for an appointment to consider how we might be able to help you without bringing you to the practice.

We promote and would like all of our patients to take an active interest in maintaining their own health as far as possible with assurance that expert help and advice will be available when necessary at both primary and secondary care levels.

We have a car park located at the rear of the surgery with a capacity for around 160 car spaces. This is accessed from Lincoln Road between the Car sales site and the community church on Lincoln Road just beyond the triangle. Please see the maps on this page for further orientation.

The surgery is centrally located within easy reach of bus routes and there is a chemist close to the surgery.

The premises have been extended and modernised to provide comprehensive facilities for patients. The surgery is fully computerised and linked electronically to the hospital and community services.

We are looking to further develop our services and care and are keen on your suggestions. Please see the "Patient Participation Group" section for further information.