Home visits are provided for housebound or seriously ill patients only. We are unable to provide visits for social reasons like lack of transport or because there is not an appointment for the exact time or day you want it. Please ask friends or relatives to bring you to surgery if you do not have transport or consider using the bus or a taxi before asking for a visit.

A doctor can see around 4 people in surgery in the time they do one visit. Also, more thorough examinations can be done in the surgery than at home using surgery based equipment and facilities.

Visit requests should be made before 10.30am so that the doctors can organise their visits efficiently. We will try our best to be flexible but do have limited resources.

If a visit is genuinely needed, then we will aim to respond as follows:

• Emergencies within the hour
• Same day within 3 hours after the end of surgery
• Routine or follow up within one week