Haughton Vale Surgery

General information

Haughton Thornley Medical Centres is a family-friendly innovative modern surgery with 8 GPs and 4 nurses delivering a wide variety of enhanced services including minor operations, coil fits, insulin initiation, a warfarin clinic and monitoring of disease modifying arthritis drugs alongside our basic care.

We have been very innovative and won awards for the online services we provide our patients. Over 2400 patients currently have access to their GP electronic health records. Patients can book appointments online (currently for nurses and healthcare assistants), order repeat prescriptions online and send non-urgent secure electronic messages (and receive replies back from clinicians or staff depending on the nature of the query) via the internet, smartphone or tablet. Patients can also view their complete electronic health record and see what their doctor or nurse has written about them as well as view tests results, correspondence from other providers such as the hospital or community based clinics, see their immunisation history or even previous medications that they may have been prescribed. Patients can also see a list of all their significant active and past health problems including dates for when they were diagnosed too. This can be very helpful when applying for jobs, insurance or just to be nosey! We encourage patients to get a better understanding of their own healthcare by signposting patients to trusted information via our practice website www.htmc.co.uk. You can learn more about self care here http://tinyurl.com/mehgrln and common problems you can solve! Why wait when you can do it now yourself and for your family!

You can learn more about why we decided to set up a Facebook and twitter page as well by visiting http://tinyurl.com/ptfrvmn

We are just starting on this journey and hope to use Facebook to inform patients and the public about what is happening at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres as well as finding out what else is happening beyond us. We hope patients find this a useful way to keep in touch and inform others about developments or important news too. You can email us directly htmcpatient@nhs.net.

Please note: we do not recommend patients posting or emailing any personal identifiable confidential information via Facebook or email as this is not a secure method of communication. Your confidentiality and privacy is our primary concern. It is much safer to send messages securely via Patient Access and e-messaging. Please register for online services if you would like to know more by going to www.htmc.co.uk/GetAccessNow