Urgent advice: Christmas And New Year 2024/25
The Federation of Blackburn with Darwen GP surgeries is offering primary care urgent appointments for locally registered patients.
NOTE: Phone lines will be open from 9:30am until 1:30pm.
Clinic sessions will run between 10am and 2pm
Thursday 26th December BANK HOLIDAY
Wednesday 1st January BANK HOLIDAY
Telephone 01254 965152
The surgery address for this clinic is:
Shifa Surgery
Bangor Street
Blackburn
BB1 6DY
Please make use of this service instead of going to hospital for primary care problems.
Please note that repeat prescriptions and sick notes will not be issued on these days.
These appointments can only be booked by dialing the telephone number above on the day. This is not a walk in service.
The surgery is open as usual between 8.00am and 6.30pm Monday to Friday. If you need to see your GP please call 01254 584888 or book online via the Mygp/NHS app.
Appointments are being delivered face-to-face, online and over the telephone. If you are attending for a face to face review please wear a face mask if you have respiratory symptoms.
We are now on Facebook!
Please visit our facebook page and like/follow the page for surgery updates
NHS APP
You can download the NHS app from the app store on your apple or android device. The NHS app allows you to book and cancel appointments, you can also view your medical records online and order your medication online.
NHS App - Apps on Google Play
NHS App on the App Store (apple.com)
Evening and Weekend Appointments
Evening and weekend GP and nurse appointments now available.
Contact your practice to find out more.
Privacy Notice
The practice is GDPR compliant. Read our privacy notice for the practice.
Our Mission Statement
St Georges Surgery aims to provide a safe and professional primary health care service to our patients whilst ensuring we always put the needs of our patients at the centre of everything we do as well as maintaining confidentiality at all times and continuing to develop our committed complement of staff through ongoing support and training.
Our Website
As part of our plans to improve the services to our patients, we have produced this website which tells you about the practice and the services we offer; therefore please read it carefully. We trust that you will find it helpful and informative and we suggest that you bookmark it for future reference.
We would value your opinion as to its usefulness to you and any constructive advice on how it could be improved. Whilst we endeavour to ensure that it is up to date, there will inevitably be practice changes which will be done when the website is updated.
Online Prescriptions & Cancel Appointments
For an Online prescription or to book/cancel an appointment, please use the link below. If you have not used this service before please contact the surgery receptionist for details on how to register.
NHS App - Apps on Google Play
NHS App on the App Store (apple.com)
myGP® on the App Store (apple.com)
myGP® - Book GP appointments - Apps on Google Play
Disabled Access
With full disabled facilities and a lift, the surgery can easily accommodate those patients who have mobility problems.
Parking
There is parking available to the front and side of the building. We must ask patients not to park in the spaces marked for staff parking. Please do not park in the spaces marked for the disabled if you are able-bodied.
Medical Records
Lancashire and South Cumbria has been chosen by NHS England to be a national pilot for the digitisation of Medical Records. Scanning these paper based records and making them digital will enable better utilisation of space, creating more clinical space, staff areas, multi team space and video hubs, removing the need for some practices to build extensions. In addition it will also make your record more easily and speedily accessible to clinical staff within your practice.
Your complete GP medical record will be digital and stored in a secure cloud based clinical system (only accessible by your GP practice) with the paper based records being securely destroyed following BS EN 15713:2009 Secure destruction of confidential material. Your GP will still be able to access your records easily within this system. The scanning and destruction of the paper records will follow strict data protection guidelines adhered to by the NHS. As with paper based records, digital records are stored for the durations specified in the Records Management Codes of Practice for Health and Social Care. For GP patient records, this states that they may be destroyed 10 years after the patient’s death if they are no longer needed.
If you wish to discuss the scheme, please inform the Practice direct either by letter addressed to Kelly Maxwell, Practice Manager, St Georges Surgery, 62 Haslingden Road, Blackburn, BB2 3HS or by email FAO Kelly Maxwell to stgeorgessurgery@nhs.net