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Our recent survey suggested a need for a Saturday morning G.P. surgeries.

We have run a voluntary trial of Saturday morning surgeries over the last 7 weeks, from 9am - 11.30am, with our dispensary services also open during this period.

We want to provide you with the best possible care when we are open. This takes careful planning and requires good access to other services (i.e. the laboratories, diagnostics and X-ray department at the Cumberland Infirmary etc.) to help us to diagnose and treat your problems.

Auditing the trial, we have not found evidence to suggest that there is a need for Saturday morning surgeries at the practice.

The vast majority of appointments were taken for non-acute complaints which could have waited until Monday morning.

The patients using the Saturday morning service were not the long-distance workers we had assumed had made the request.

Many appointments were made but not kept and over one quarter of the appointments were not booked at all.

We have re-assessed Saturday morning opening and concluded that it does not offer best service and is not used to full capacity. Furthermore, providing a surgery on a Saturday morning has resulted in reducing the number of surgeries held during the week - which in turn has caused problems for patients.

Cuedoc provides 24 hour medical cover over the weekends and on Bank Holidays. If you need medial attention at the weekend, please contact Cuedoc on 01228 401999.