Welcome to Springfield Surgery's website.
We are a small practice in Bingley, providing a full range of Primary Care Medical Services. Despite our small friendly atmosphere, we manage to offer a range of extended services which are often available only at larger practices. We teach Medical Students, and doctors on the GP Training Programme. We try to provide a personal service, whilst maintaining high standards of care (this year we achieved over 99% of our "quality points").
Springfield Surgery's list is OPEN to new patients in the Bingley area - see new patients page.
**New** Extended Hours
Do you work? Need a more convenient appointment time?
We understand that many of our patients have busy working lives and may not find it easy to get an appointment with us during the working day. To try to address this, we recently carried out a survey to see when our patients would like us to be open in addition to our current hours. As a result of this, we shall now be offering appointments on
The doctors will be rotating these surgeries, so we cannot guarentee the doctor of your choice. We also plan to offer nurse appointments on a Monday evening. Although these appointments are open to all, we ask that if you do not work and can be seen during the day that you do not request an appointment at these times. The appointments are all pre-bookable in advance. All urgent problems will still be dealt with by Local Care Direct (0845 1207066), and our telephone lines will not be open during these times. Although our surgery will be open, services offered by other organisations will still be closed, and so we will be unable to offer certain procedures eg. blood test, swabs, test results etc.
YOUR FAMILY DOCTOR IS UNDER THREAT.
It appears that the Government is prepared to ignore the views of the vast majority of patients and is prepared to risk the closure of your local GP surgery. Instead they would like to see larger practices and "polyclinics" (or Darzi centres) run by the private sector. This puts at risk your local GP surgery that is so valued by the vast majority of patients, where you have a regular doctor whom you trust and who knows you.
See the http://www.supportyoursurgery.org.uk website for more information.
As Dr Copperfield wrote in The Times on 17 May: "...polyclinic docs may end up working for primary care providers who are interested in making money rather than making you better. So what you'll gain in access and shiny services, you'll lose in terms of continuity and advocacy. This means that instead of your trusted GP you may get a shift worker with all the empathy skills you'd expect from a piece of cardboard.
That may not bother the money-rich, time-poor, worried well. But it's a problem for those who really need a good family doc, such as the elderly and those with chronic disease. They can't easily travel to the nearest Darzi centre, they value a doctor they know and who knows them, and they want a GP who keeps an eye on the whole picture rather than one who deconstructs their multi- pathology to its innumerable individual components just because polyclinics run lots of, well, clinics.
[Polyclinics will cream off work from local practices], and the destabilising effect of this may mean that many traditional GPs - those who provide a personalised service and who score highly on satisfaction surveys - will have to shut up shop."
We try very hard to answer telephone calls quickly. Phone line are particularly busy first thing in the morning, as this is when many of our patients ring us to get a "book on the day" appointment. We have increased our staffing and incoming lines to try and ease phone congestion. If your call is for something other than to book an appointment eg. for test results, it may be best to try later in the day (after 10am).
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