Bewick Crescent Surgery
The Partners and staff at Bewick Crescent Surgery in Newton Aycliffe are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centered healthcare. We are also responsible for a branch surgery in Heighington village.
We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.
In addition to everything you need to know about the practice you will also find health-related information in the menu on the right hand side. Please have a look around and feel free to leave us some feedback.
Appointments
Do not attend the surgery unless you have been told to do so by one of our staff. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak we are currently only seeing patients in practice who require urgent medical attention.
If you require urgent medical attention please telephone the practice on 01325 316637. The receptionist will book you a telephone call with a clinician. Patients will be assessed over the telephone and the clinician will then decide if a face-to-face appointment is necessary. Please continue to order your medication in the usual way, this will be sent to a pharmacy of your choice. Please allow up to 72 hours for repeat medication.
For information about this year's flu jab campaign, please click this link here.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information
The NHS in County Durham and Public Health England (PHE) are extremely well prepared for outbreaks of new infectious diseases. The NHS has put in place measures to ensure the safety of all patients and NHS staff whilst also ensuring services are available to the public as normal.
The risk to the general public is moderate. If you have arrived back to the UK from mainland China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia or Macau within 14 days, follow the specific advice for returning travellers.
Call 111 now if you've been:
- to Wuhan or Hubei Province in China in the last 14 days (even if you do not have symptoms)
- to other parts of China, including Macau and Hong Kong, in the last 14 days and have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breath (even if it's mild)
- to Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Rebublic of Korea or Malaysia in the last 14 days and have a cough, high temperature or shortness of breach (even if it's mild)
- in close contact with someone with confirmed coronavirus.
PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THE SURGERY, or go to a community pharmacy or hospital. Call 111, stay indoors and avoid close contact with other people.
Further information is available from: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
National Principle Study
COVID-19 has affected the lives of everybody within the UK and the rest of the world. Finding safe and effective treatments has been the drive of researchers at the University of Oxford and right now, you have an opportunity to help. PRINCIPLE is a national priority trial to find treatments for COVID-19. We are looking for volunteers aged 65 or over, OR aged between 50 and 64 with an underlying health condition.
To be eligible to take part, you must be unwell with Covid-19 symptoms, and have had them for less than 14 days. No face to face visits are needed.
Please help us fight COVID-19 by visiting our website www.principletrial.org
Bewick Crescent Surgery Bi-annual Newsletter
Keep up-to-date with practice affairs with our Newsletters. They are sent out during the summer and winter months. Click on the link below:
eConsult
This new service lets patients consult with NHS GPs by completing a quick online form. This service also directs patients to self-help, pharmacy advice and local self-referral services. Click here to see a demo. To get started, click on the picture below to get started (Note - this service does not guarantee liaison with a specific Doctor):
Note - this service does not guarantee liaison with a specific clinician.
Mental Health Crisis Services:
Call 0300 0200317. This is a centralised telephone number making it easier for those in mental distress to get urgent help. This replaces individual contact numbers for crisis services in County Durham and Darlington, Teesside and North Yorkshire and York, including those for children and young people and older aged adults.
Feedback
We value your feedback good or bad in order to monitor our services. You can leave feedback via the website (click here). Please note this is not where to submit complaints, details of this can be found in our complaints procedure. We aim to acknowledge feedback within 3 working days.
(Site updated 28/09/2020)