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Get in touch online, at anytime.
You can contact the practice 24/7 on our website by filling in an online form PATCHS or via the NHS App. Book an appointment, request a
repeat prescription or submit a query at a time that is convenient for you.
Once you get in touch, we'll get back to you within 48 hours.
If this option sounds right for you, speak to one of the team about getting started online or by visiting our PATCHS page and Your GP record online - Alwoodley Medical Centre.
You can also request help by giving the practice a call on 0113 393 0119 or visiting reception during opening hours.
We are open Monday - Tuesday 08:00 - 20:00 Wednesday - Friday 08:00 - 18:00.
When you’re feeling unwell, you want to get advice and help quickly.
Our practice receptionists have had additional training in ‘care navigation’ so they can help you get the right care, faster.
When you call the practice to make an appointment, the receptionist/patient services team may ask you to tell them a bit about why you want to see someone. You don’t need to give lots of detail or tell them anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Our reception team/patient services team will never offer clinical advice or triage; this new way of working is about offering you the choice to see the most appropriate professional in the practice team or elsewhere. It will often be quicker and means you may not need to see a GP at all.
By working this way, it helps to free up time for our GPs to care for patients with Complex or serious health conditions that can only be managed by a GP. More importantly though, it means people are seen first by the clinician best able to manage their clinical problem.
"Please don't be offended if you are asked what the problem is when you ring for an appointment. "This is called Care Navigation and it's about helping you get the service you need."
The receptionist/patient services team might suggest you see an alternative professional or service:
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Pharmacy
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Physiotherapy
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Healthy Minds
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Lifestyle Health & Wellbeing
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Social prescribers
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Prescribing Pharmacists
The choice is always yours though, we hope next time you contact your GP and speak to our reception team/Patient services team you will see the value of seeing another health professional if they are able to help.
How does PATCHS work?
PATCHS is an online consultation service that allows you to access GP services quickly and easily.
Register for the service Click here
Alwoodley Medical Centre have launched our new repeat prescription and online GP consultation service, PATCHS, which allows you to request help from your mobile phone without needing to book an appointment. To submit a request Click Here
What should I use PATCHS for?
Anything non-urgent that you need to ask your GP:
- GP consultations (New health problem or ongoing health problem)
- Fit/sick note requests (Admin request)
- Repeat Medications and prescriptions (Medication request)
- Health advice or anything else (Other)
PATCHS is a way to access your GP practice online but like all appointments there are a limited number per day and once the limit for GP requests for appointments has been reached the GP will close PATCHS for the day. You can however still submit medication requests and admin requests.
Once these appointments are filled PATCHS will be closed until the next day. To find out more please click here.
Please consider bringing your empty inhalers back to pharmacy so they can be disposed of safely!
Many inhalers contain gases called propellants which help the medicine in the inhaler to be delivered to your lungs. These are not harmful to you, but they are potent greenhouse gases. This is why 3-4% of the whole NHS carbon footprint comes from inhalers.
It’s important to return your inhalers to pharmacies so that they can be disposed of properly, by breaking down the propellant gases into less harmful ones. Some pharmacies will be able to recycle the other materials in the inhaler, too.
Binning inhalers with your regular household waste means the propellant gases end up released into the atmosphere, so please consider bringing them to a pharmacy if you can.
For more information, take a look at: www.greeninhaler.org
All patients with booked appointments at Alwoodley Medical centre, should still attend their appointments unless contacted and told otherwise.
If you have been referred for an x-ray by your GP, Leeds Teaching Hospitals radiology department has a walk in service for adult patients (aged 16 and over). Please see the links below for more information
Walk in Service for X-ray leaflet
Details of the departments offering the service and times you can attend
IF YOU WANT TO AVOID WAITING IN A QUEUE
WHY NOT BOOK YOUR GP APPOINTMENT ONLINE
GP APPOINTMENTS ARE RELEASED DAILY AT 8AM
FACE TO FACE AND TELEPHONE APPOINTMENTS
ARE AVAILABLE TO BOOK
YOU CAN BOOK THESE APPOINTMENTS USING
YOUR NHS APP OR PATIENT ACCESS APP
TALK TO OUR STAFF IF YOU NEED SUPPORT
Please see updated details regarding the extended access service