Important: New way to request urgent appointments on a Monday
To improve access and ensure the right care for you, we are introducing a new triage system.
How does it work?
- Instead of calling on a Monday morning, simply complete our online form.
- Our GPs will review your request and send you a text with the next steps - this may be an appointment, a pharmacy referral, or self-care advice.
- Once capacity is reached, the form will close for the day
- Complete the online form here
The method of booking urgent appointments on the day Tuesday – Friday remains unchanged.
If you have made an appointment to see a doctor, but are unable to attend, or no longer require a doctor please inform the surgery.
We need unwanted appointments to give to other patients who are ill and need to see a doctor urgently.
If you would like another member of staff to be present during your consultation, examination or procedure please ask the doctor, nurse or a receptionist. For certain examinations or procedures the Clinician may automatically arrange for a chaperone to be present. This may mean that sometimes the consultation will take a longer time.
Enhanced Access Appointments
The Enhanced Access has been launched in East Lancashire and will be provided by East Lancashire Alliance to increase the number of appointments available to patients in the area.
Every GP practice in Burnley, Rossendale, Hyndburn, and Ribblesdale will be involved in the new Enhanced Access scheme.
The Enhanced Access scheme means that patients can make an appointment via their registered practice to see a variety of Health Professionals such as GPs, ANPs, PNs, HCAs and Clinical Pharmacists which are delivered Face to Face and remotely Mondays to Fridays from 6.30pm to 8.45pm, and 9.00am to 5.00pm on a Saturday. This service has been set up by East Lancashire Alliance on behalf of Primary Care Networks to improve services available to patients outside GP core hours.
The Clinicians will be able to access patients full medical record (including their practice notes), request tests and investigations, as well as completing referrals for them into further services and care. Anything added to the patients record during the Enhanced Access Consultation will go straight back to their registered practice so they can be kept up to data with anything that may have changed or been updated on the record.
Appointments for services provided to all the patients in Burnley Practices are available from within the Burnley Group Practice Suite inside the St Peters Health Care (St Peter's Leisure Centre, Church St, Burnley BB11 2DL) Monday to Saturday.
If you would like one of these appointments, please ask your receptionist team at your practice for more information.
Home Visits
Home visits are available for anyone who is too ill or too frail to come to the surgery.
Please do not request a Home Visit if you are able to come to the surgery.
Requests for Home visits should be made to the surgery by 10.30am to ensure same day visit.
Please be patient because the doctor will call.
Cancelling or changing an appointment
If you can not make your appointment let us know as soon as you can so another patient can book the appointment time. You can cancel or change your appointment:
If you need help when we are closed
- Use NHS 111 online (111.nhs.uk) or call 111. 111 online is for people aged 5 and over. Call 111 if you need help for a child under 5.
- Out of hours information
- If it’s a life-threatening emergency call 999.