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GP Access Hubs
We are improving access to appointments
GP Access Hubs (previously known as MIAMI) are to be extended giving patients more access to GPs. We use these appointments as an extension to our existing surgeries to offer more availability to our patients 7 days a week.
If you have an acute / short term problem such as ear/eye/chest infection, sore throats then we ask that you agree to one of these appointments at either St Lawrence Surgery, Selden Road or Broadwater Medical Centre. This will allow us to be able to use appointments with our current GPs for more complex long term conditions.
We also have nurses appointments available during the day here or at the GP access hub clinics at the weekend.
GP and nurse appointments are now available during the evening and at the weekend for people across Coastal West Sussex. This means that urgent appointments are available up to 8pm during the week, and during clinics on a Saturday and Sunday. This aims to improve access to GP appointments and help local people to get the help and support they need.
The service is run by Innovations in Primary Care (IPC), a not-for-profit company owned by local GP practices.
The appointments will be available at local GP access hubs, run from GP surgeries, and they will be both routine and urgent appointments with a doctor, nurse or healthcare professional.
The teams will see new illnesses when you urgently need to see a health professional, and offer planned appointments such as family planning and smear tests that can be hard to arrange whilst at work or when you are caring for family or a loved one.
IPC has been running the MIAMI clinics in Adur and Worthing for the last three years, which has offered a very similar service, offering help for ‘Minor Injury Assessment & Minor Illnesses’.
These clinics have been successful and helped local people to access the help they need outside of normal opening times.
We hope that this roll out of the hubs across the whole of Coastal West Sussex will mean that all patients registered with a GP practice in our area can benefit.
Book into the GP access hubs via your normal GP practice, and you may be offered an appointment at one of the hubs at the weekend if you call NHS 111 for urgent health advice and support.
The hubs may be at your GP practice or they may be at a neighbouring GP practice locally in the community around you.
The teams will have access to your medical records with your consent, and any care they provide will be added to your notes so your GP practice can continue any ongoing care.
Patients can book into these appointments by calling your registered GP practice in the normal way, and they will be able to access the booking system and make sure you receive the help and support you need.