Home Visits
Whilst we encourage our patients to come to the surgery, where we have the proper equipment and facilities available, we do appreciate this is not always possible. In this respect, if you do need a home visit, it should be requested by telephone before 10:00.
You may only request a home visit if you are housebound or are too ill to visit the practice. Your GP will only visit you at home if they think that your medical condition requires it and will also decide how urgently a visit is needed. Please bear this in mind and be prepared to provide suitable details to enable the doctor to schedule house calls.
Acute visiting Service (AVS)
You can also be visited at home by a community nurse if you are referred by your GP.
The aim of this service is to reduce inappropriate hospital admissions and enable patients to be cared for at home when it is clinically safe to do so. This service supports the GPs to manage urgent care needs and enables them to focus on other priorities in primary care. The service has resulted in
- Reduced emergency admissions to hospital
- Reduced the need for GPs to leave their practice to visit people in their homes
- This increases access to GPs in the practices
- Quicker referrals to hospital when it is needed
This service can be accessed via the GP surgery.