Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (NGCCG) have developed a 'Little Orange Book' aimed at providing support to parents and carers of young children. The book covers common minor illness, treatment and also times to seek medical assistance. They are available upon request via the Health Visitor or can be viewed online here.
Do you have one at home? At work? In the car?
It's always good to be prepared. You never know when you might need a bandage or pain killers. Find out what should be in yours and save yourself a trip to A&E
The practice will be closed for staff training from 12 noon and re-open at 8.30am next day on the following days
| Wednesday 11th March 2020 |
| Thursday 14th May 2020 |
| Thursday 4th June 2020 |
| Wednesday 1st July 2020 |
| Tuesday 15th September 2020 |
| Tuesday 20th October 2020 |
| Thursday 26th November 2020 |
If you need medical assistance when the surgery is closed please call NHS111 for advice
NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised and the required disclosure is shown below. However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice and should not be used to for any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparisons with other practices.
The average earnings for GPs working in the Thornfield Medical Group in the last financial year ending in 2017/18 was £69,309 before taxation and National Insurance. This is for 3 full time GP and 10 part time GPs who worked in the practice for more than 6 months.
Nurse Practitioners are trained specialist nurses who have undertaken additional education in order to provide advanced nursing care and they are able to prescribe medicines.
Click here for more information about the role of Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Pharmacists
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Information NOW is the information and advice website for people over 50 in Newcastle, their families and carers.
Over the past few months, we've seen an increase in the number of people that don't attend their booked appointment. This is what we call a 'did not attend' or DNA. More>>
This is having an impact on our ability to deliver a service to patients that really need our help. It also means more patients are having difficulty in booking an appointment and is a severe waste of limited NHS resources.
We introduced a new 'did not attend' policy in April 2017. This means if you do not attend your booked appointment we will:
Since April this year we have sent out 1,870 letters to patients about missed appointments. This has cost us approximately £1,000 in administration costs and over £80,000 in clinic time. Unfortunately, we have also had some patients who have received more than one reminder to cancel their appointment, and in these cases we have advised them to register at another surgery.
You can help us free up more appointments by remembering to cancel any unwanted appointment you have and signing up to our text reminder service. You can also help us by reminding the people to you know who are also patients here, to cancel any appointment they don't need.
Together, we can free up appointments for everyone and go some way to save our practice and the NHS valuable resource.
The practice endeavours to promote good health and provide high quality, evidence-based care in a non-discriminatory process to all members of the practice population.
To successfully provide our services a mutual respect between staff and patients has to be in place. Thornfield Medical Group operates a zero tolerance policy to all and will not tolerate any abuse towards its staff, doctors or other patients.
