Urgent Care

 

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The Urgent Care Team provide support for patients with minor illness; patients requesting a same-day appointment or urgent assistance throughout the day. Patients will recieve a telephone call by one of the team or the on-duty Urgent Care Doctor. They may then be offered a face-to-face appointment, if needed, following the telephone assessment.

Physicians Assistants

Physicians Assistans (PA) are healthcare professionals who have been trained on a medical based model. They are dependent practitioners working with a dedicated GP supervisor but are able to work autonomously with appropriate support.

They have varying competencies and work the same way as a GP, but they are not able to: prescribe, request chest x-rays or CT scans or provide care/treatments to patients in an unsupervised setting.