Welcome to Greensands Medical Practice
The doctors and staff welcome you to Greensands Medical Practice. We provide a wide range of general medical services from our two premises in Potton and Gamlingay.
Both sites have easy wheelchair access.
Please explore our website to find out more about us and what we can offer.
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**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**
There are three types of vaccines available this year. This will ensure that the most suitable vaccine provides the best protection to each group as below:-
Quadrivalent for patients aged 18 to 64 in an at risk group (please see on NHS Choices for further details on these groups)
WALK IN CLINIC SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER POTTON SURGERY 0900 – 1200H OR BOOK AN APPOINTMENT AT RECEPTION
Trivalent for patients aged 65 and over
PLEASE BOOK AT RECEPTION
Fluenz Nasal Spray for Children aged 2 – 3 yrs and those children in an at risk group in school years 6 to age 17
PLEASE BOOK AT RECEPTION
Your GP encourages you to have your vaccine here so that we can check your records for eligibility for other important vaccines such as Shingles and Pneumonia.
It's Goodbye from them and hello to Dr Jessica Maddams.........
In July we said a sad farewell to Dr Taine & Dr Drake, we would like to thank everyone for their kind words, gifts and cards which were gratefully received by both Doctors and their families.
The Surgery move's on to it's next exciting chapter as we welcome Dr Jessica Maddams. Dr Maddams will be starting with us at our Gamlingay Practice on September 3rd.
Dr Maddams studied medicine at
the University of Leeds, qualifying
in 2012. Having worked in Yorkshire
for a couple of years, Dr Maddams
then moved to Cambridge to start
GP training in 2014. As part of her
training, Dr Maddams completed
an MPhil in primary care research
at the University of Cambridge.
General Data Protection Regulations
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is a new law that determines how your personal data is processed and kept safe, and the legal rights that you have in relation to your own data.
Please see the following documentation for further information.
General Data Protection Regulations for Young People
Third Party Access and Collection
Notification - Change of Details
Patient Online
For information on our Patient Online services (including access to view a summary of your medical record and/or your detailed coded record) and to download an application form for an online account click here
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Patient Transport Schemes
A number of car schemes are available for Greensands Medical Practice patients who would otherwise be unable to get to medical appointments or visit patients in hospitals. Our Patient Transport Scheme leaflet, put together by our Patient Participation Group, gives basic details of volunteer and community organised schemes. It also gives information about the Free NHS transport service available to eligible patients and how you could reclaim transport costs incurred for essential visits to hospital.
Please click here for a copy of the leaflet
Changes to the Out of Hours Service
To access Healthcare Services when we are closed please call 111
The Patient will either be given telephone advice, a face to face appointment or a home visit.
If a patient requires a face to face appointment, they will be allocated an appointment at one of the locations listed below:-
- Biggleswade Hospital, Potton Road, Biggleswade
- Bedford Hospital, Kempston Road, Bedford
- Town Centre GP Surgery, Luton
- Leighton Buzzard Health Centre
- Priory Gardens Surgery, Dunstable
- Highlands, Flitwick
Surgery News & Information
IT / Electronic Patient Records Statement of Intent
Changes to the appointment system - Telephone Triage explained
Support for patients aged 60 years and above living in Potton
Please click here for additional surgery news & Information
End of life care and advance care planning information
The NHS is constantly in the news. Here are some interesting articles to contribute to the debate:
Brexit doesn't affect me, or does it?
Opening up the NHS to the US market
How will Brexit affect health services in the UK?
The NHS has no contingency plan for a no deal Brexit
How much does Boris owe the NHS?
The privatisation plans for the next two years
Allyson Pollock's TED talk on the privatisation of the NHS