Welcome to The Birches Medical Centre

The Birches Medical Centre We hope to use our surgery website as a way of presenting all our patients with an up to date resource for all information relating to our practice. We will keep it current with any news, developments & details that are relevant to the practice & our patients.

As well as a source of information about our Practice, the staff & the services we provide, we hope you use the website as a useful resource with links to other reliable websites for health related information. If there is topical health information we will also add this to the website.

Have a look around our website and please do send us some feedback. We can use your thoughts to improve our online services & further develop the website to make it a more useful, practical application for our patients.

(Site updated 19/04/2012)

Noticeboard

Out of Hours

The surgery is closed on Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays
When the surgery is closed Bury PCT is responsible for patient care and out of hours calls are dealt with by Bardoc. The telephone number is 0161 763 4242

Home Visits
Requests for home visits should be made before 10am If you need to speak to a doctor telephone between 12.30 and 1.00pm

Online Prescriptions
Order your repeat medication online! Visit the prescriptions page for more details

important information

On Monday and Friday morning we usually have an open surgery. No appointment is needed but please ring and check before attending.

The surgery closes on the second Thursday of each month between 12.30pm and 2.30pm for staff training. If you need to call in an emergency at this time your call will be diverted.

Further Information

For quick medical advice online or on the telephone contact NHS Direct

NHS 111 is a new service being introduced to make it easier for you to access local NHS healthcare services