Welcome to St. Peter's Surgery

St_Peters_Surgery The practice has purpose built premises which offer a comprehensive range of facilities, including easy access and facilities for the disabled. All of the staff who work here are part of the health care team working for your benefit, but some staff are employees of the Primary Care Trust and are attached to the Practice to provide additional local services. St. Peter's Surgery is recognised as an Investor in People and a GP Registrar training practice. The Doctors work as an unlimited Partnership to provide General Medical Services under the new NHS Contract from the above address.

IIP_LOGO This surgery website is designed to provide you and your family with all of the basic details you require to enable you to make the best use of the services and facilities we offer. We will keep it current with any developments or other details that we feel are relevant to you.

CHANGES TO EXTENDED SURGERY HOURS - As a result of a reduction in funding by Walsall PCT it has been necessary to restructured the extended hours service provided by the Practice - please see appointments page or appointments online.

St Peter's Surgery "Online" Services

NB: When using the online services please read the instructions given on each screen carefully. Young people under the age of 16 can not register "on-line", they need to obtain a username and password from reception.

Book or Cancel an Appointment	Order Repeat Prescription & Messages
Update your Contact Details	Take our Patient Survey
Print ~ Self Certification form

(Site updated 11/05/2012)

Noticeboard

BREAKING NEWS

A warm welcome to Dr J M Liu who has joined St. Peter's Surgery as a GP Partner. Dr Liu will be working at the surgery for 2 and a half days a week as Dr Houlahan and Dr Crowther have reduced their working time to four days a week each.

WASTED APPOINTMENTS

Patients who repeatedly fail to attend appointments they have made are being sent warning letters. Patients who continue to waste appointments after a warning may be removed from the patient list. Sadly, a total of 25 patients were removed in Jan 2012 following repeated non attendance.

TELEPHONE ACCESS

We are continuing with our drive to improve telephone access and have now recruited over 35 hours of new receptionist time to assist in improving the service to patients. To reduce the demand on the telephone patients can use the "Online" Services detailed on this website.

"OUT OF HOURS"
When the surgery is closed there will be a recorded message giving clear instructions on how to contact the “Out of Hours” Service or, if the surgery is closed for training during normal hours, how to contact a doctor. For “Out of Hours” Service - Telephone 0300 555 0306

If the Surgery is closed for training -

Telephone 0845 890 8990

Home Visits
Home visits should only be requested when you are too ill to attend the surgery. Please attend the surgery for a consultation whenever possible. Should a visit be necessary please ring the surgery before 11.30am as this helps the doctors to plan their rounds, only urgent requests should be made after this time

Cancelling your Appointment
If you are unable to attend your appointment at St. Peter's Surgery, please give 24 hours notice by telephone, text or by using the link at the bottom of this page to cancel your appointment.

Further Information

Patient (Participation) Reference Group

For quick medical advice online or on the telephone contact NHS Direct

NHS 111 is a new service being introduced to make it easier for you to access local NHS healthcare services