Welcome to the Quay Lane Surgery Website
Quay Lane doctors' surgery in St Germans provides the highest quality healthcare to patients in the Cornwall area. Our doctors, nurses and all our other staff are dedicated to offering a professional service and this surgery website will help us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.
As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff and the services we provide, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like. We can use your ideas to improve our online services and further develop the content of this site.
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CORONOVIRUS UPDATE:
From Tuesday 26th May it a requirement for ALL patients entering the main or branch surgery to wear a face covering of some sort (mask or scarf). This applies to face to face appointments and collecting medication. Thank you for your help in preventing the spread of the virus. Stay Safe, Stay Alert.
Like many businesses across the UK, we are closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and following the advice provided by UK health authorities.
Follow the link on the right under further information named COVID-19 Coronavirus for further information.
***** YOUR GP SURGERY IS OPEN*****
Please call us for advice in the usual way; we are open for non COVID enquiries. Although we may not see you in the practice we are happy to help via telephone or video link (you must have a smartphone).
We ask that you do not attend the surgery unless you are collecting medication or have been advised to do so by a receptionist or health care professional. Patients must attend appointments on their own unless it is a child or vulnerable person (one carer can attend with them).
If you would like to book a video consultation with a GP then please let the receptionist know. You will receive a link via text from the surgery prior to your appointment.
Useful Tips and Advice for Video Consultations
- Ensure that your smartphone camera and microphone is enabled and that you have a good internet connection.
- Speak clearly so your voice can be picked up by the microphone
- Look at the camera so you can achieve good eye contact with the clinician
- The clinician will speak with you and ask you questions in the same way as they would at a face-to-face consultation
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Quay Lane Surgery Flu Clinics
Flu vaccinations are by appointment only, please ring the surgery to arrange your time slot:
If you are under 65 and fall into an ‘at risk’ group:
- Wednesday 21st October from 17.00 - 20.00
- Wednesday 4th November from 15.45 - 17.00
- Wednesday 25th November from 17.30 - 19.30
All patients over 65
- Saturday 10th October from 08.30 - 18.00
- Saturday 7th November from 08.30- 18.00
Patients aged 50 – 64 years
NHS England has extended the programme to include our 50 – 64 year olds, who are not in an at risk group, which is in addition to our normal vaccination programme for eligible adults. Appointments will not be offered to this group until November or December, providing there is sufficient vaccine. This is to ensure that those who are most at risk are vaccinated first. We kindly ask that you do not ring the surgery to book an appointment until invited to do so, thank you.
The eligibility criteria for flu vaccination for 2020 are as follows:
- You are over 65
- You are a carer
- Pregnant women
- Chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases
- Chronic heart disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic liver disease
- Chronic neurological conditions
- Diabetes
- Problems with your spleen
- A weakened immune system
- Being seriously overweight (BMI of 40 or over)
Active Signposting
In January 2019 we introduced active signposting to Quay Lane Surgery.
This new process sees the Receptionist asking more questions of patients at the point of booking appointments to enable them to make the most appropriate appointment with the right member of clinical staff depending on the patient’s condition.
It is important for patients to understand that they are not being nosy and the information being asked for is very much in their best interests and to ensure they receive the most appropriate and efficient service possible.
To read more about our signposting service then please click here
See a GP by video with LIVI
This practice now offers a video GP service – LIVI – to all our patients. To access the service simply download LIVI from the App store (iphone) or Google Play (Android), and sign up. You can get medical advice, prescriptions and referrals by video, with appointments available on the same day, even at weekends. They link in directly with your medical records at the surgery.
Get the LIVI app here: https://bit.ly/2KySedD
They are available evenings and weekends and on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.
We are delighted to be able to let you know that the patients of Quay Lane Surgery are able to use LIVI from 7am until 10pm at night and also at the weekend from 8am until 4pm for the next 3 months (August to October). It's free to use and has both bookable and drop-in GP Video appointments available.
Please note that the LIVI GPs are not GPs from Quay Lane Surgery.
Quay Lane Surgery
Privacy Notice
What is a Privacy Notice?
A Privacy Notice (or ‘Fair Processing Notice’) is an explanation of what information the Practice collects on patients and how it is used. Being transparent and providing clear information to patients about how a Practice uses their personal data is an essential requirement of GDPR ( Data Protection Act 1998 ).
This can be accessed by following the Policies link at the top left of the page.
VISITORS (temporary patients)
If you are staying in our area and need to be seen then we request that you contact your own GP. All practices are now offering telephone and video consultations and will be able to consult you via one of these methods. If you need a prescription then they will be able to arrange for one to be sent electronically to a local pharmacy of your choice.
If you have an urgent problem then we ask that you contact 111.
Quay Lane & Downderry Surgery Newsletter
Newsletter - please follow the link below (to see previous issues follow the Latest News Link on the right):
CQC Report
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Magazines, Leaflets and Childrens Books
Due to infection control, we are unable to have magazines or leaflets for patients to look at for the foreseeable future. All Childrens books have also been removed.
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PRESCRIPTIONS
Please note that all Prescriptions are taking 5 working days due to high demand and problems with deliveries from drug companies. Please do not include weekends.
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(Site updated 30/09/2020)