Garswood Surgery - Doctors surgery opening times and what to do when we are closed

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Closure

Please note that the surgery is closed from 12.30pm on Wednesday 25^th April 2018 for mandatory staff training.

The surgery will reopen as usual from 8am on Thursday 26th April 2018.

Need Urgent Dental Care?

If you need help with an urgent dental problem, call our helpline, available from 9am to 9:30pm everyday, including weekends and Bank Holidays.

0161 476 9651 (Local Rate)

Local dental providers offer NHS urgent dental clinics across Cheshire and Merseyside, with urgent appointments for patients who need urgent treatment, advice and support on dental queries or referral to other services.

The service is provided according to strict clinical criteri

a and when you call you'll be assessed by a member of our clinical team to make sure your problem come under either:

Trauma - this is usually caused by a blow to the face, a lost filling is not classed as a trauma.
Swelling of the face
Bleeding, uncontrolled, such as after an extraction
Pain that can't be controlled by pain relief medicines.

If you're given an appointment and your problem doesn't fit of the above, you'll still have to pay the NHS fee but may receive advice and not treatment.

Clinic times vary.and at busy times or when your local clinic's not available you may be offered an appointment at an alternative location.

Please not: this is an appointment only service - we do not operate a "drop in" service at any of our surgeries

Opening Times

When We Are Closed

In an emergency phone the surgery as normal. If you need to see a doctor you will be asked to attend an out of hours emergency centre.

Call NHS 111, Tel: 111

Minor Injuries

Doctors, nurses and new X-ray facilities are available at the Injuries Unit for all your breaks, aches, rips, pulls, sprains, gashes, slashes, stitches, itches, falls, bruises and eye injuries.

Open 7 days a week

Know the place to go!

http://www.nhs.uk/111/

Injuries Unit
The Millennium Centre,
Corporation St, St Helens
Tel: 01744 627400

Opening Hours:
7am – 10pm Monday – Saturday
9am – 10pm Sundays

Emergency Dental Treatment

A GP is unable to deal with dental problems. This includes toothache, abscesses and problems experienced after dental treatment.

Dentists offer a 24 hrs per day emergency service. Out of normal surgery hours, this service is only for urgent dental treatment that cannot wait until the next working day to be treated.

To contact the urgent out of hours dental service for the local area please telephone 01744 451252.

Please note that this service is for patients in URGENT need of dental care.

If you have difficulty accessing dental services for routine dental care services please contact the Customer Care Unit on 0800 849 7088 or NHS 111 on 111.