Welcome to Springfield Surgery's website.
We are a small practice of family doctors 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 99.9% of our "quality points", the second highest score in all of the 82 practices in the Bradford & Airedale region).
Springfield Surgery's list is OPEN to new patients in the Bingley area - see new patients page.
Swine Flu Update
You will probably have heard on the news that the Government has changed it's strategy towards swine flu as more people are being diagnosed. DO NOT PANIC! Locally we are still seeing very few cases (around 150 in the whole of Yorkshire and Humberside), and most people who catch swine flu have had only mild symptoms.
The key things to remember if you think you (or anyone you know) has swine flu is to firstly stay at home and don’t go to your GP practice or local A&E, but to:
- go on line and check your symptoms on www.nhs.uk
- call NHS Direct (0845 46 47) or the swine flu information line on 0800 1513 513
- if you are still concerned, you should call your GP (or your out of hours provider) who can provide a diagnosis over the phone and, if necessary, organise a prescription for collection by your nominated flu friend.
If you have been in contact with someone with confirmed flu, you will not usually require treatment unless you develop flu symptoms yourself, are over 65, under 5, or have a chronic condition eg. diabetes, asthma.
Canalside Healthcare Centre
The new health centre has now been named, and will be called "Canalside Healthcare Centre".
The floors are laid, internal walls are going up, and within the next few weeks, we'll see the installation of the impressive green glass atrium roof.
Read more on our new healthcentre page.
Do you work?
Need a more convenient appointment time?
We now offer appointments on
- Saturday mornings 9am to 12.15pm once a month, and
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- Monday evenings 6.30pm to 8.15pm every week (except weeks when there is a Saturday surgery), including nurse appointments.
The doctors will be rotating these surgeries, so we are unable to guarentee the doctor of your choice. 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 the local Emergency GP Out-of-hours Clinic at Airedale, 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.
Other news.....
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A new sexual health clinic has now started at Springfield Surgery. If you think you may have an STI (sexually transmitted infection), the STI clinic has now moved from the hospital to your GP practice. We can now offer the full screening and treatment service in-house. This remains a confidential service. If you require an appointment, then please contact reception. Appointments are offered with Dr Dawson - ask for a "green appointment".
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You can pre-book appointments with a GP in advance and also book appointments on-line. You can even book appointments through Sky/Virgin television and some mobile phones (see appointments page).
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Do you have a verruca?
Are you aged 12-24?
If the answer is yes, you may be interested in taking part in a clinical trial we are conducting in conjunction with York University, to find the best treatment fot verrucas. Please ring and ask to speak to Dr Gazeley if interested in taking part, or visit the trial website.
We are always trying to improve the services we offer. We are currently
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looking to provide physiotherapy appointments at the Yorkshire Clinic on the NHS.
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working with other practices in Bingley to widen the services we can offer, including blood testing, warfarin.
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developing a new service, working in conjunction with a local pharmacy team, to review patients on multiple medications.
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looking to expand our minor surgery service, and link it in to the Bingley Dermatology Clinic.
How to contact us
All contact details are listed on the contact us page.
We regret that, for the time being, it is not possible to contact individual doctors by email for queries or medical advice. However, if you have any general comments or suggestions about this site or our services, please feel free to email us and let us know. PLEASE NOTE emails are only checked once a day.
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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