Hello and welcome to the Kearsley Medical Centre website.  We’ve packed it full of useful information in a very easy to use format with the added benefit of several online functions.

If you’re new to the area, have a look at our opening times, download a registration form and come and see us.

The team are here to provide all patients with a professional and caring healthcare experience in friendly and personal surroundings. With discretion and confidentiality guaranteed your welfare is safe, secure and in good hands.

Urgents will be dealt with in the morning before 12pm.  Any calls taken after 12pm are for emergencies only, so we can complete our routine work.  Appointments are being delivered face-to-face, online and over the telephone.  All patients who telephone the surgery will complete a care navigation process with our reception team, who may then send you a link to our website to complete an online request form.  You can skip our telephone queues by completing these request forms without ringing the surgery.

For non-urgent issues such as sick notes, test results or medical reports. You will be directed to complete an online consult form, see below.  If any of our patients do not have internet access please telephone the surgery and our receptionists will complete the online consult form on your behalf.

Please be understanding of the situation we are in. We are all working hard, doing the very best we can and more, to try and continue to provide a safe and effective service. This often means that we have to make decisions based on our patients’ needs rather than their wants.  Please be patient with us and our staff.  

• From 1st October 2022 our extended access hours will be Thursday and Friday 6.30am-8am with GP and Nurse appointments available
• If you want to speak to a preferred GP please request a routine telephone or face to face appointment

A mobile health clinic will be arriving in Farnworth and Kearsley to offer past and current smokers aged 55–74 a free Lung Health Check from mid-June.
It will operate 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) from 8am to 8pm to ensure that appointments are accessible to everyone who’s invited. Patients will be informed of the location in an invitation letter or text message.

Invitation letters and text messages will be sent out to smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in in the Farnworth and Kearsley Primary Care Network in Bolton. This includes the following GP surgeries: Kearsley Medical Centre, Stonehill Medical Centre, Fig Tree Medical Practice and Farnworth Family Practice.

Most visitors to the Lung Health Checks will get reassurance that everything is OK or be referred to get help to stop smoking.

• For more information on the Targeted Lung Health Check programme please visit www.mft.nnhs.uk/lunghealthcheck
• If you have concerning symptoms you should speak to your GP who will be able to refer you for tests if needed. You can read about symptoms of lung cancer here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer/symptoms/

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