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Welcome to the Caddington Surgery Web Site.  The Surgery is located in the Bedfordshire village of Caddington and serves the people of Caddington, Slip End, Woodside and Pepperstock. We aim to:

  • provide all our patients with the best possible care,

  • give advice and information to help our patients to keep healthy, and

  • treat all our patients with courtesy and understanding.

Caddington Surgery NewsWe have developed this web site to provide easy access to information about the practice and the services we offer, in addition to medical information.  

News

For the latest information from Caddington Surgery, please click here

Early Appointments

Just a quick reminder that we are already open EARLY.  There are 8.15a.m. appointments slots on a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to see a GP and 8.30a.m. on a Wednesday. Patients ARRIVING at 8.15a.m. at the surgery will be offered one of these early appointments slots which are 10 minutes apart.  The telephone lines are open from 8.30a.m. and appointments booked.

So how much will Corporations really value your Family's Health?

Your Family Doctor is for Life not just a dayLots of us see the same doctor while we are growing up. As our GP builds up a personal medical record and a special knowledge of us, so we come to know and trust them too. Very often, the same GPs look after whole families; our children, our parents, even our grandparents. So they really get to know us and our medical history over the years.
However this may all be set to change.
Despite the fact that British General Practice is seen as one of the best in the world, the Government plans to set up "new clinics” covering large numbers of the population, in direct competition with your local GP surgery. What’s more, big private national and international corporations can bid to run these clinics, in fact, they are already running general practice in some parts of the country. We are worried that this may result in your local practice not having sufficient patients or funds to keep running.
What does this mean?
In simple terms, you could lose your family doctor forever.

How can you make a difference?

Bedforshire and Hertfordshire Local Medical Committee - Working in partnership for excellence in General PracticeWe can only save General Practice if we all do something about it now. So if your local surgery is important to you and your family, if you feel your GP deserves your support, then please act today to help our cause and to make your voice heard. Click here to sign petition on the Save My GP web site

You can book an appointment to see a Dunstable Citizens Advice Bureau adviser here in Caddington Surgery. This service is available via an appointment only, every other Friday morning. Please ask at reception to book an appointment.


Citizens Advice provides free, independent, impartial and confidential advice on may issues including benefits, employment, debt, housing and legal issues.  (Priority given to clients who are unable or would find it difficult to get to Dunstable CAB.)

Give up smoking

Go smoke free?  It is one of the best things you could do for your health. Making a complete break from smoking. Think about how great it would be to leave those health worries behind you. Picture yourself, waking up and feeling totally fresh. Millions of people in Britain have already gone smoke free and you can too. Click here for more information or contact the surgery.

 

Lose weight

There are lots of groups to join, books to read and so on for diets.  But for simple tips on weight loss (that work!), click here.  And for an outline of a low fat diet, click here.  Why not use the BMI calculator to find out if you're the right weight for your height ?  Click here for BMI Calculator

 

Are you hard of hearing?

T-Loop symbolThe surgery has a portable T-loop to help hearing aid wearers. To make use of this please switch your hearing aid on to T when you speak to the receptionist and ask that the loop be used in your consultation when you check in. The T-loop can also be taken by the doctor or (district) nurse on home visits if you request this in advance. We regret that occasionally the facility will not be available if in use with another patient. 

You may also like to know that hearing aid batteries are now available from reception.

 

Repeat Prescriptions

Why not try our "Request Repeat Prescriptions by E-mail" service?  It seems to be increasingly popular with our patients.

Click here for NHS Direct

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