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Our dispensary is closed between 1pm - 3pm from Monday to Friday.

NHS Prescription Charges

The NHS prescription charge, in England, will increase to £9.35 per prescription item from 1st April 2021. The price of a three-month prepayment certificate (PPC) will become £30.25 (an increase of 60 pence) and a 12-month PPC will be £108.10 (an increase of £2.20)

Patients who fail to cancel their appointment or do not turn up for their appointment has a detrimental affect on waiting times.  Please remember to let the staff know if you no longer need your appointment so that they can offer than time to another patient.

We are receiving a lot of enquiries to join our Practice from patients living out of our practice area. To save disappointment please use our postcode checker which is located in the New Patient section of our website, this will clearly tell you whether you reside within our area.  We do not take patients who are not in our area.  If you wish to ring the surgery to enquire then please ring after 10:00am.

Appointments can be booked by telephone (calls may be recorded), on-line or face to face.  If you cannot attend your appointment then please let us know.  Appointment text reminders are being used for those patients who provide a mobile number.  If you do not wish to receive these reminders then please inform us. 

Remove labelling prior to disposal of empty medicine bottles/boxes

Identity theft can have serious and lasting consequences for victims, so it is important for individuals to take proper steps to protect themselves wherever possible. By managing your personal information carefully and understanding its importance, you can reduce the likelihood of it impacting you.

  • Remove all personal and surgery labelling from medicines packets and bottles prior to disposal
  • Shred or destroy your personal information
  • Help the environment by recycling your bottles and cardboard packets

We would like to welcome Dr Emma Knight, Salaried GP to the practice team.  She will be working on a Wednesday morning and all day Friday at the main surgery in St. Germans. 

GP Net Earnings

NHS England require that the net earnings of Doctors engaged in the practice is publicised and the required disclosure is shown below.  However it should be noted that the prescribed method or calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it take no account of how much time Doctors spend working in the practice and should not be used to form any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparison with any other practice.

Financial Year 2019 - 2020

The average pay for GPs working in Quay Lane Surgery in the last financial year was £35,912 before tax and National Insurance.


This is for 1 full time GPs, 3 part time GPs and 2 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

Financial Year 2018 - 2019

The average pay for GPs working in Quay Lane Surgery in the last financial year was £30,217 before tax and National Insurance.

This is for 1 full time GP, 3 part time GPs and 3 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

Financial Year 2017 - 2018

The average pay for GPs working in Quay Lane Surgery in the last financial year was £35,672 before tax and National Insurance.

This is for 1 full time GPs, 3 part time GPs and 2 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

Financial Year 2016 – 2017

The average pay for GPs working in Quay Lane Surgery in the last financial year was £44,705 before tax and National Insurance.

 

This is for 1 full time GPs, 3 part time GPs and 1 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

Financial Year 2015 - 2016

The average pay for GPs working in QUAY LANE SURGERY in the last financial year was £46,944 before tax and national insurance.

This is for 2 full time GPs, 2 part time GPs and 2 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

 

 
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