WEDNESDAY 22ND AUGUST 2019 - AFTERNOON CLOSURE
The practice will be closed on Wednesday from 12.30pm for Protected Learning Time. You can contact NHS 24 on telephone 111 while we are closed. Our doors will reopen from 7.45 am on Thursday and our phones will be available from 8.30am.
NEWSFLASH
The GP Partners, Management and Staff of London Road Medical Practice are delighted to announce that from Monday 2nd September 2019, we will be taking over the care of the patients at Kilmaurs Medical Practice.
NEW NAME
From 2nd September the merged practices will become the Marnock Medical Group and will be named as follows:
Our Kilmarnock Branch will be called Marnock Medical @ London Road
Our Kilmaurs Branch will be called Marnock Medical @ Kilmaurs
There will be no change to the standards of care provided to you here at London Road. There will be work taking place on our server on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th August to merge the computer systems, so we will be running emergency clinics on these days, but otherwise it will be business as usual.
Welcome to London Road Medical Practice, Kilmarnock
The best way to get help from us now is through askmyGP.
Click on the link above to access askmyGP.
Please submit your request as early as possible on the day you would like your request dealt with. Please ensure that you are available either by text or telephone so that the GP can contact you, especially in cases where you will need to attend the practice to see a Clinician.
If you have asked us to contact you by email, please check your email regularly as we try to respond as quickly as possible to all queries. If you are offered an appointment you may miss it, if you do not check your email till later in the day.
If you have an urgent problem between 3.30pm and 5.30pm, please RING the surgery on 01563 523593.
If the GP needs to telephone you to discuss your request, they will always try twice to call you, so please keep your phone close by. If you do not answer, your case will be closed. If you still need assistance, please resubmit your request via askmyGP.
Please do not send photos of genitalia on askmyGP.
If you are new to the system, click the link below for detailed instructions on how to register
Instructions on how to register with askmyGP
Once registered you can login, answer a few simple questions and send into the GP Team. We aim to respond ideally within a few hours and certainly on the same day if requests are made before 3.30pm.
Please help us to help you by using askmyGP, so the phone lines are not clogged for those who have no internet or smartphone.
If you would like to arrange a telephone consultation with your GP, face to face consultation with your GP or to ask their advice, simply enter your details through askmyGP (above). Alternatively contact the Admin team who will ask for a brief description of your concern to help your GP decide how best to help you.
We would like to thank all our patients who have provided feedback so far on askmyGP, here are the latest comments we have received:
"Fantastic service and no need to hang on the phone for ages. Terrific response".
"Saves a lot of hassle with creating appointments and then missing them due to other inconveniences".
"I think this is a super system-quick and efficient with a very satisfactory outcome. I am aware it doesn’t suit everyone but I hope it alleviates pressure on other ways of patients contacting the surgery and thus all patients benefit".
"Great to be able to note down your problem and get either email with advice come back or the chance to speak with your own GP".
"Love this new idea ask my GP no waiting on phone for 96 calls it's so simple easy effective answered and helped within hour fantastic".
"Oh my goodness, so much easier than phoning in for an appointment, love that there are different options of how you would like to be contacted rather than always making a trip to the surgery".
"Very convenient and effective service. Much more confident after using it a few times".
"This new service is excellent, particularly for me, as it is quick and easy to book an appointment wherever we are (school/college/work/uni) with less of a time constraint than the previous system. Thank you"!
"Absolutely delighted. Problem solved in record time and with my own doctor. Thank you".
"Good service from the GP surgery especially when you really don't want to leave home and feeling rather vulnerable, thank you".
"Excellent service. Really like how easy it is to communicate with my doctor now".
"Great idea. Wasn’t aware of the new service until the phone message. So hung up and went online and had a quick response with the outcome I hoped for".
"I have used new system on 3 occasions now .so easy to find way around. I hope it also works better for all surgery staffs' valuable time .thank you very much".
"First time using - excellent, fast service - much quicker than trying to get through for appointment especially when I am working and don't always have time to keep ringing. Top marks"!
"At long last, it's absolutely fantastic. Modern technology at its best".
"Happy to have this contact to help in looking after my elderly Mum".
With patients' needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been designed to make it easy for you to gain instant access to the information you need. As well as specific practice details such as opening hours and how to register, you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations.
(Site updated 19/08/2019)