Please see our appointments page for details of our appointments and opening hours.
Repeat prescriptions take two working days to be processed and are available to be collected after 3.00pm on the second working day, e.g., prescriptions brought in on Tuesday will be ready to collect after 3.00pm on Thursday, prescriptions brought in on Friday will be available to collect after 3.00pm on Tuesday.
The practice takes part in a repeat prescription collection service. All the local chemists are involved. You can choose which chemist you would like to collect your prescription. SHOW
So instead of you coming to the surgery to collect your signed prescription, you can drop off your prescription request at your chosen chemist, they will deliver the prescription request to the surgery, collect the issued repeat prescription from the surgery, prepare your medication and have it ready for you to pick up straight from the chemist.
Please enquire at reception if you want more details or wish to take part in the scheme. If, however, you wish to drop off or collect your prescription from the surgery please continue to do so. There is a prescription drop-off box in the porch or if you wish to have your repeat prescription posted back to you, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope with your repeat request.
The review date near the bottom of your repeat slip indicates when you should have a medication review. There is no need to book an appointment for your review. Instead, we will write, inviting you for a review, and include the forms for you to attend for any relevant blood tests before your review. This is an essential and very important requirement, if you are to continue to take your medications safely and effectively.
For items that are not on repeat prescription, you are advised to make an appointment with the doctor, as our receptionists are not permitted to issue prescription items not on repeat. Such item requests may cause a delay in the processing of your repeat prescription, extending beyond the two working day limit we specify above.
We do not take repeat prescription requests over the telephone, however, you may register for an account to order repeat prescriptions online. Please see our online services page for more details, or if you already have a Patient Access account, login now .
We have a formal home visiting policy . We only visit terminally ill or bedbound patients. Please see our home visiting pages for more information.
In an emergency, when the surgery is closed, please ring 111 . SHOW
When you ring you will be directly connected to Derbyshire Health United who provides out of hours medical services for the local population.
There are alternatives to seeing the doctor. You can also find out where to get help or visit our symptom checker which can tell you who to turn to first for help with your symptom or condition.
Blood tests are not carried out at the surgery. Patients can attend Ripley Hospital Phlebotomy department Monday to Friday 7.30am to 12.15pm. No appointment is necessary. Just attend the clinic and take a ticket and await your turn.
If you need to fast (starve) for the test - this means not having anything to eat or drink (apart from plain water) for 12 hours before your test. You may take your routine medications (apart from diabetic medication) as normal with water.
These generally take two weeks to be reported and viewed by the clinical staff (X-rays may take three weeks or more). Therefore if you need to ring for your result, please leave at least two weeks after your tests before you ring. Results are available after 2.00pm. Please note reception team cannot deal with calls for test results before this time. SHOW
You may be put through to a nurse. Sometimes the doctor may request to see or speak to you regarding the result. This does not always mean there is something seriously wrong and may just be to clarify further details of your problem or request further tests. Please try not to worry if this happens. Please be aware that we will always contact you urgently, usually by telephone, if we need to see you to review any results that could be caused by a serious health problem.
If you are asked to book an appointment to discuss a test result, please book with the same doctor who asked you to come in. This will ensure you get the best care available.
NHS care is free at the point of contact, and involves things like seeing the doctor for a normal consultation, home visits and some types of minor surgery. You will not be charged for NHS work. However, the doctors are entitled to charge for some items of work which are outside the NHS. SHOW
These private fees are payable by the patient and include: private sick notes, passport applications, holiday cancellation forms, insurance claim forms, HGV medicals, pre-employment medicals and other medical examinations. For an additional fee, we offer a same day service on urgently required certificates, passport applications and claim forms. Please ask at reception. A list of our current fees can be found on the notice board in the waiting room or is available from reception.
For a private referral to see a consultant, please make an appointment to discuss this with your doctor. If appropriate, a letter will be given, usually with the consultant's private room's telephone number on the envelope. It is the patient's responsibility to make the appointment with the consultants themselves at a mutually convenient time and to take the letter with them.
For sickness lasting less than seven days, employees should complete a 'self certificate' form, which is obtainable from their workplace or from our downloads page.
If your employer requests a note for this period (and only if this is a requirement of your employment contract), this can only be as a private sickness certificate. You will need to make a routine appointment to see the doctor, and a fee will be payable for this certificate.
For sickness lasting longer than seven days, a fit note (MED3) will be required from the doctor. This is free.
If you need a further fit note, please try to see the same doctor who has been dealing with your problem. Even if your doctor is temporarily unavailable, for example on holiday, this non-urgent problem can wait until their return. Notes can be issued to cover previous absences from work as long as they are continuous. Repeat (ongoing) notes may be issued by booking a telephone appointment with the relevant doctor.
Patient UK has useful information on sickness certification in general practice .
This clinic is run by the midwife attached to the practice. If you become pregnant, you will be given a 'booking appointment' with the Midwife when you are about 10 weeks pregnant. At this appointment the midwife will ask a few questions and carry out some general health checks. You will be seen regularly throughout your pregnancy either at the surgery, the local hospital, or both.
This service is provided by the practice nurse team for those patients stabilised on warfarin. This service is by appointment during surgery times.
This service is provided by the practice nurse team. Asthma patients, particularly children, are invited to attend. This service is by appointment during surgery times.
This service is provided by the practice nurse team. All women aged 25 to 64 (except those who have had a hysterectomy) are invited to have this test. We encourage you to accept this invitation. The service is by appointment during surgery times.
This service is run by the doctors and is by appointment only.
This clinic is run by the treatment room nurse by appointment.
This runs on a weekly basis and is organised by our diabetic nurse. The clinic offers advice and general health check-ups to patients diagnosed with diabetes.
This service is provided by the practice nurse team. Emergency contraception is also available from some local chemists.
Implants and coils are provided by the GP by appointment.
Health checks and advice are offered by the treatment room nurse by appointment.
This is a private service provided by the doctors. This service is provide by the doctors and is by appointment only. Paperwork and full payment (non- refundable) is required when booking the appointment. These appointments are in great demand and there is usually a waiting list. Therefore, if payment and paperwork is not received at least 1 week prior to the appointment date, the appointment will be cancelled and offered to the next person on the list.
Minor operations and some joint injections can be performed by the doctors. Please discuss this with your doctor who will arrange for you to be put on the waiting list. An appointment will be sent to you in due course.
Ivy Grove Surgery provides certain travel vaccinations. Please allow yourself plenty of time to obtain your travel requirements, as vaccinations can take a couple of weeks to take effect. We need at least 6 weeks’ notice prior to travel to ensure a suitable appointment is agreed.
The surgery supplies certain travel vaccinations free on the NHS, these include Typhoid, Hepatitis A and Diptheria/Tetanus/Polio.
Other vaccinations that may be required for travel would have to be provided privately. Unfortunately due to changes in professional insurance, we are unable to provide any private vaccinations (other than Yellow Fever - see below). For private travel vaccinations, please find details of some local travel clinics below:
Boots Pharmacy Intu Centre - Derby
1 Devonshire Walk
Derby
DE1 2AH
01332 345886
Travel Doc – Derby
1 Bridge Street
Derby
DE1 3HZ
01332 332530
Boots Pharmacy Giltbrook Retail Park - Nottingham
Giltbrook
Nottingham
NG16 2RP
0115 9386050
Travel Doc – Nottingham
2 Regents Street
Nottingham
NG1 5BQ
0115 9475498
We are a registered Yellow Fever Centre, and we provide Yellow Fever Vaccination as a private chargeable vaccination. The fee for this is £75 (incl. certificate) - payment can be made by card or cash. When attending for Yellow Fever vaccination you will need to bring your passport with you as proof of ID for the certificate. Without this we will not be able to vaccinate you.
If you wish to obtain free travel advice from us to check which vaccinations you will need, whether NHS or private, please download, read and complete the following form, one for each traveller.
This is a private service provided by the Amber Valley Physiotherapy Clinic. Appointments can be made by calling 01773 514147 .
This service is provided free for patients of Ivy Grove by appointment only.
Any patient, registered or not, is welcome to book an appointment with our support worker from Derbyshire Carers Association, who visits once a month. Please ring reception.
© Dr Michael Wong 2021