LOCHTHORN MEDICAL CENTRE
New Patient Medical Checks
All patients are offered a medical check when registering with the practice.
Full Maternity Services
Antenatal care is carried out by the Yellow Team Midwives. A Yellow Team member holds an antenatal clinic on a Thursday morning (pre-booked appointments) at the centre.
To contact the midwife:
9.00 am - 5.00 pm - The Willows - non-urgent - Tel. 01387 246964
24 hour access - Maternity Assessment Unit at Cresswell - Tel. 01387 241211
Child immunisations
Carried out at the practice by NHS Dumfries & Galloway Immunisation Team on a Wednesday afternoon.
Practice Nurse clinics
The Practice Nurse is a great resource to the practice. She assists our Doctor/ANP to manage the health conditions of our patients. She is an expert in chronic disease management and provides services including blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, COPD, cardiovascular, immunisations, blood clinic, well woman and well man.
Family planning and well-woman clinics
Counselling, contraception, cervical screening, insertion of implants.
Fitting of IUCD (coils) is done at Sexual Health.
Minor Surgery
Our Doctor performs some minor surgeries at the practice. Procedures are performed in our dedicated Minor Surgery theatre.
District Nursing Services
District Nurses provide care to patients who are housebound. The Doctor will arrange for the District Nurse to visit if and when appropriate.
Home Visits
These are strictly for patients too ill to attend the surgery. Doctors can typically see 4 patients in the practice in the time it takes to do a single home visit. For this reason, we ask our patients to come to the surgery if at all possible. When necessary please telephone 01387 259944 (before 10.00 am whenever possible) and be ready to give the receptionist some indication of the nature of the problem.
Home visits are not a substitute for lack of appointments, transport or for convenience.
Winter Vaccination
The Health Board arrange this service for eligible patients every autumn. Normally, this will include all patients over 65 years and those patients deemed at high risk, e.g. diabetics, renal failure etc.
Pharmacy Team
Pharmacy Team members (employed by the primary care team) attached to the practice:
Sarah Cloy, Pharmacist
Mental Health Nurse
Mental Health Nurse (employed by the primary care team) attached to the practice:
Kirsty Graham
Chemist
There is an on-site Chemist at the centre. it is open from 9.00 am - 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm and can be contacted on 01387 251111. Please note that the running of the Chemist is completely independent.
HGV Medicals
This is a private service provided at the centre. Our doctor is very experienced in the completion of HGV medical forms. We aim to fit you in as quickly as possible. Price is £100 per medical. No VAT applies.
Subject Access Request for Medical Records
You are entitled to have access to your records and to have copies of them. If you wish to request your medical records, please contact the Practice to request these. For security purposes we will require a signed request from you before you view your records. We also require two forms of ID. If you are requesting a child's records, we will require proof of parental responsibility/guardianship.
Please be assured that, if a third party (e.g. your solicitor) submits a request on your behalf, we will not release any information without your written consent/signed mandate.
Please note due to GDPR rules we are unable to release documents originating from certain departments. If you wish to request documents from any of the departments from which we are unable to release, please request a note of the e-mail address in which to submit a request to.