Surgery Opening Hours

St John's Medical Centre

Day	Opening hours
Sunday 27 July	Closed
Monday 28 July	8am to 6:30pm
Tuesday 29 July	8am to 6:30pm
Wednesday 30 July	8am to 6:30pm
Thursday 31 July	8am to 6:30pm
Friday 1 August	8am to 6:30pm
Saturday 2 August	Closed

Extended Access - Evenings and Weekends

We are pleased to be able to offer our patients, as part of the Grantham Primary care network (PCN), access to routine, pre-booked appointments at evenings and weekends. These are referred to as Enhanced Access appointments. The service is being delivered at local practices on a rotational basis on behalf of the PCN and are available for any patient who is registered at this surgery.

Enhanced Access hours are:

Monday - Friday 6.30pm-8pm

Saturday 9am-5pm

We also offer some early morning appointments starting at 7am.

Appointments are for pre-bookable, non-urgent consultations (e.g., chronic illness, asthma checks, and blood pressure checks) with GPs, ANPs, Nurses, Physios and Health Care Assistants. Please note, the enhanced access service is not a walk-in service.

We will not be physically open during these hours, patients will be unable to have general queries answered or dealt with during enhanced access opening times. Please be aware, your appointment may be a telephone call, video call or a face-to-face appointment, you will be advised at the time of booking.

When booking an appointment, you will need to consent to a Consulting Clinician that may not be your own GP viewing and updating your health record.

To arrange an appointment, please contact our Reception team on 01476 348484.

For urgent matters at evenings, weekends and bank holidays, patients will continue to access the GP Out of Hours Services at Lincoln County Hospital via NHS 111.

When We Are Closed

What you can do when we are closed.pdf

The local Out of Hours Service provide emergency medical care for patients between the hours of 18:30 and 08:00 Monday to Friday and from 18:30 on Friday to 08:00 Monday.

If you require assistance for a medically urgent problem during the above times please ring 111 who will take details of your problem and advise you what to do. They will either provide telephone advice, arrange for you to visit the Emergency Centre at Grantham Hospital or offer to visit you if you are too ill to travel.

If you are unable to contact a practitioner and the emergency persists, then ring 999 without delay.

Please do not ask to see a doctor out of hours unless you genuinely cannot wait until the surgery re-opens.

Call 999 in an emergency. Chest pains and / or shortness of breath constitute an emergency.

NHS 111 Online

111 online is a fast and convenient alternative to the 111 phone service and provides an option for people who want to access 111 digitally.

Your needs will be assessed and you will be given advice about whether you need:

Treat yourself at home
Go to a Primary Care Centre

If you need face to face medical attention you may be asked to attend a Primary Care Centre.

Click here to access NHS 111 online or call 111 to speak to a staff member.

Page last reviewed: 07 March 2022
Page created: 07 March 2022