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New Telephone System

  • Abbey Road Surgery is moving to Total Online Triage for all patient requests from Tuesday 1 July 2025. This means every request is reviewed first by our team, allowing us to prioritise based on clinical need and guide patients to the most appropriate clinician or service. GP practices across UK are moving to a ‘Modern General Practice’ model to make access to care and treatment easier for patients and help improve patient satisfaction. This is a national NHS project, and all general practices must adopt the system.
  • Did you know you can now contact us for medical and administrative help online (see our website for more details) : Get help online
  • Our telephone lines are closed between 1pm and 2.30pm, Monday to Friday. The surgery is still open for you to walk in with queries that cannot wait until the phone lines open again at 2.30pm. If you have a life-threatening medical emergency that requires an ambulance, please hang up and call 999 immediately.

Appointments

Important: Important notice for our patient

Abbey Road Surgery are moving to Total Triage from Tuesday 1st July 2025.

Helping you get the right treatment, by the right clinician, at the right time.

We will be asking all patients to complete an online Patient Triage form

This will be reviewed by one of our team and we will then contact you with either advice or a link to book an appointment where appropriate.

If you are unable to do this, a family member, friend or carer can complete the form on your behalf. Of course if you are unable to complete the online form, you can still contact us by phone and one of our dedicated team members will talk you through the Online Triage pathway and support you using this new process.

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You can contact a doctor or other healthcare professional online by completing the Online Triage form using the link below. You can still call the practice to book an appointment with a Practice nurse, HCA (Health Care Assistant), you do not need to complete the patient online triage form.

Contact us online

We will respond to requests within 2 working days.

Urgent appointments

Urgent appointment requests can be completed via the patient online triage form. The triaging clinician can offer a same day appointment if appropriate.

If you need more urgent help, please call us. If the GP practice is closed, visit NHS 111 online or call 111. In an emergency call 999.

Your appointment

However you choose to contact us, we may offer you a consultation:

  • by phone
  • face to face at the surgery
  • on a video call
  • by text or email

Appointments by phone, video call or by text or email can be more flexible and often means you get help sooner.

Cancelling or changing an appointment

To cancel your appointment:

  • If you cannot keep an appointment, please let us know as soon as possible if you are unable to make your appointment by calling us on 01992 654004 during opening times press Option 1 to leave a message with your name, date of birth, day and time of your appointment to be cancelled after the tone. Any appointment cancellation request less than 1 hour before the appointment will not be accepted as we may not have enough time to offer the cancelled appointment(s) to other patients in need.
  • use your NHS account (through the NHS website or NHS App)
  • using the GP online system: SystmOnline

If you need help when we are closed

If you need medical help now, use NHS 111 online or call 111.

NHS 111 online is for people aged 5 and over. Call 111 if you need help for a child under 5.

Call 999 in a medical or mental health emergency. This is when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.

If you need help with your appointment

Please tell us:

  • if there’s a specific doctor, nurse or other health professional you would prefer to respond
  • if you would prefer to consult with the doctor or nurse by phone, face-to-face, by video call or by text or email
  • if you need an interpreter
  • if you have any other access or communication needs

Home visits

If you are housebound and need an appointment, we will do a home visit. We will phone you first to understand what you need. To request a home visit, it’s helpful if you phone the surgery between 8:30am and 10am. Home visits – Abbey Road Surgery

We cannot guarantee that one of our practice GP’s will attend as we use the Acute In-hours Visiting Service (AIVS) to support the GP’s when demand is high. AIVS will visit with 6 hours of the visit being passed to them.

Page published: 5 May 2023
Last updated: 1 July 2025