Certificate of Achievement for Brierley!
We are proud of our "Active Practice" award - for encouraging staff and patients to increase activity.
Welcome to our practice website
Welcome to Brierley Park Medical Centre. Our aim is to treat all our patients equally and to give you an effective service that is sensitive to your needs.
The doctors and staff are committed to providing high quality medical care.
We look forward to welcoming you to our practice and hope that we may meet your needs. If you feel that there is something else that we could offer, we are keen to hear from you.
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COVID UP-DATE
As you will be aware the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, and numbers are increasing quickly. We already have some staff off self-isolating, even though everyone is triple vaccinated. We expect further staff absences over the coming weeks, and this could have a significant impact on our ability to answer the telephones as quickly as we would like. If possible, please use other methods to contact us for non-urgent medical issues including email, letter, NHS App, SystmOnline. We would aim to get back to you within 48 hours of receiving your query.
Thank you for all the lovely messages of support and patience. We continue to do our best under challenging circumstances. COVID is affecting our staffing levels due to staff and family sickness. We are still waiting on delivery dates for our flu vaccines, COVID vaccines and blood bottles. Therefore, we continue to offer mostly telephone calls, undertake urgent blood tests and see patients who need to be seen face-to-face as appropriate.
We have been happy to offer face to face appointments without telephone triage for the last few months, unfortunately due to COVID sickness in several of our doctors and their families, we are having to revert to telephone triage first in order to remain able to deliver a safe service. We will off course see you if deemed clinically necessary. This will be reviewed daily and we will update you as soon as we can.
SAFE SURGERIES PRACTICE
Brierley Park Medical Centre is one of the first 500 Safe Surgeries in the UK.
Did you know? Please make our staff aware if you are a war veteran and a patient at Brierley
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Clinical Practice Research Data Link - for further information please click on the Research tab and then the CPRD link.
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Physiotherapy - Refer yourself directly
The MSK Service is suitable for low back pain, neck pain, recent strains and sprains, joint and muscle pain.
Please click on the link to access the form
Physio Self Referral
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Calendar of Events 2022
We respectfully request that when you attend the surgery a face covering is worn at all times.
This can be a scarf or other homemade face covering
Please click on the lick below for further useful information and advice on how to make your own face covering.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html
Does someone close to you seem really down? Might they be thinking about suicide? The only way to know is ask. Click the below link for more information and advice
Safe to talk leaflet
Have you asked your pharmacist?
Minor short term illnesses can be treated at home or by getting advice from your local pharmacy. You don't always need a doctor or nurse for:
- Coughs, colds and blocked nose & congestion
- Bites & stings
- Hay fever
- Ear or eye
- Mouth or Throat
- Gynae / Thrush
- Headaches or Migraines
- Swelling
General, Pain or Skin
- Indigestion and heartburn
- Gastric or Bowel
- Minor pains (aches, sprains or strains)
- Constipation or diahorrea
- Temperature or fever
See our CPCS Leaflet CPCS leaflet
If your symptoms are not improving after a few days of treatment with over the counter medications, you should contact the local pharmacist or your GP for more advice.
Online Services
If you do not have access to a smartphone but do have access to a computer you can still access our online services by coming into the surgery with photo identification. We will then give you a username and password to access the same online services as the NHS app. Currently they both have the same information and features, but in future the NHS app will have much more to offer than our services.
For more information on this, please visit the Online services page
Please click the below link for details of support group and organisations for Ashfield Citizens to access during this winter around health and well-being support.
Winter wellness
GP Access Scheme
Monday - Friday 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Saturday morning 9:00am - 12 noon
Sunday & Bank Holidays 9:00am - 1:00pm
Ashfield North Federation of practices includes, Willowbrook Medical Practice, Woodlands Medical Practice, Brierley Park Medical Centre, Skegby Family Medical Centre and Kings Medical Centre. We are a group of practices who are working together to offer our patients access to GP pre-booked appointments evenings and weekends.
You can now have pre-bookable appointments Sunday & Bank Holidays at Forest Medical, Rosemary Street, Mansfield, NG19 6AB (near civic centre).
These appointments can only be booked through your own GP practice. There will be a GP and sometimes a nurse on duty at each surgery. Your appointment will be 15 minutes long. There are no emergency appointments available during extended GP Access Surgeries. Should the GP you see like to refer you for further investigations or procedures, this information will be passed on to your usual GP practice to process.
Extended GP Access service is now accessible 7 days per week. If you require an appointment on a Sunday please enquire with the reception team. For further information https://www.mansfieldandashfieldccg.nhs.uk/our-services/doctors-surgeries/did-you-know-you-can-now-book-gp-appointments-in-mid-nottinghamshire-on-evenings-and-weekends/
Great Self-Care App for patients
and staff alike!
The website below if full of apps around healthy lifestyle choices and self-care advice with community forums for discussion topics.
https://apps.beta.nhs.uk
Teaching/Training practice
We are an accredited training and teaching practice. We have speciality trainee Doctors (who are qualified Doctors who are training to be come GPs) and Foundation Doctors (who are qualified Doctors with over a year's experience of working since they left medical school
Research practice
We work as part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) We are an accredited level 2 research practice. We undertake research studies to benefit the health and wellbeing of our patients and to help to contribute to the knowledge of humankind. You can read more about the NIHRR CRN here:
(Site updated 17/01/2022)