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April Newsletter 202 May 2023
Your Rigg Milner and Corringham Team is made up of a range of healthcare professionals who work at your practice and in the wider community to help you get the right care when you need it. |
Reception Team | Our reception staff are part of the Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help by: • getting you an appointment with the right clinician as quickly as possible • identifying services you can access with a GP referral • making appointments for new kinds of care or services |
Clinical Pharmacist | We have Clinical Pharmacists in our Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help by: • reviewing your medicines • agreeing and making changes to your prescriptions • advising about medicines and possible side effects |
Paramedic | We have Paramedics in our Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help you by: • assessing and treating certain health conditions • attending home visits • ordering tests and interpreting results |
Physiotherapist | We have Physiotherapists in our Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help by: • diagnosing and treating muscular and joint conditions • advising on how to manage your condition • referring you on to specialist services |
Social Prescribing Link Worker | They can help you by: • supporting you to manage your health and wellbeing • giving you time to focus on what matters to you • helping you to access support services and activities |
Healthcare Assistant | We have Healthcare Assistants in our Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help by: • monitoring your blood pressure and taking blood samples • providing healthy living advice, such as stopping smoking and weight loss • tending to dressings and stitch removal |
Nurses | We have Nurses in our Rigg Milner and Corringham Team. They can help by: • providing vaccinations and injections • supporting you with long-term conditions • providing family planning and sexual health advice |
Welcome to Rigg Milner Medical Centre
And Corringham Health Centre!
We are a friendly, patient orientated, and professional surgery that provides the best possible care for all our patients. Our website has been designed with the patients at the forefront of everything, making it easy for you to check our opening times, and letting us know what you think about us.
Our dedicated team are not only here to treat those unfortunate maladies, but to also provide a specialist management of long-term conditions. Our clinics cover a wide range of health care issues.
Once registered with us, patients and health and social care professionals work together to provide the best, individualised care for all our patients. This ensures that needs of the patients are met, and the GP Practice and other outside agencies understand the level of care needed.
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Opening Times
Monday-Friday 8.00-6.30, appointments with our Practitioners start from 08.30am onwards.
Out of Hours GP and Nurse Appointments
Out-Of-Hours GP Services Are Changing
We want to provide the right services at a time which is convenient for you. We’ve listened to feedback from people in our local area, and we are making changes to our out-of-hours appointments to deliver better services for you.
The new way of delivering out-of-hours appointments will give you:
· Access to more healthcare professionals. This new service will be delivered by professionals including GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistants.
· More choice about the type of appointment you want. These include a mixture of in-person face-to-face appointments, and remote appointments like telephone, video, or online appointments.
· Make it more convenient for you to travel to out-of-hours appointments. These appointments are being planned and delivered locally, so it is likely they will available closer to your home.
From Saturday 1 October 2022, out-of-hours appointments will be available from 6.30pm to 8pm on weekdays, and from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays. In Thurrock, appointments will continue to also be available on Sundays from 12pm to 3pm until Sunday 12 February 2023.
When we asked local people what you wanted from these appointments you told us “Getting in to see the GP any day of the week is difficult for me when I do not have a carer to bring me along” and “Weekend appointments will open up more opportunity for me to attend for my health”. In response we have made available a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians to see patients at weekends.
Out-of-hours appointments were previously planned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) on behalf of many GP practices in a bigger area. From Saturday 1 October 2022, this is now being planned and delivered locally by Primary Care Networks (PCNs) (apart from the additional Sunday appointments available until Sunday 12 February 2023).
We are working together with other GP practices in our local area as part of the Tilbury Chadwell Primary Care Network. You can find out more about the Tilbury Chadwell Primary Care Network on our PCN website at https://www.tilburyandchadwellpcn.nhs.uk/.
An out-of-hours appointment might not be at your regular GP surgery. When you book an appointment, you will be told where the appointment will be.
These appointments will not be available as walk-in appointments. You will need to book them in advance.
To book an out-of-hours appointment, you should contact your regular GP practice in the usual way. They will advise you on the appointments which are available, and which healthcare professional is the right person to help you.
If you need medical help now but it’s not an emergency, you can also go to 111 online or call 111.
Hub appointments are available in Tilbury and Corringham.
In the event of an emergency, please call 111 or 999.
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(Site updated 10/11/2023)