Practice Philosophy

The Spinney Team is committed to providing a high standard of medical care and health promotion in a friendly, caring atmosphere. Working as a team enables us to offer our patients a wide range of services and patients are encouraged to see the member of the team they feel might be most helpful in addressing their needs.

The last six months have seen many changes at the Spinney – Dr. Smerdon retired after 35 years in general practice, and Dr. Cox moved to a full time position with the Primary Care Trust. We have been lucky to attract three great new doctors to join the team. Dr. Andrew Borman who has spent the last year as our GP Registrar, Dr. Amit Sethi who spent his registar year at the Acorn Surgery in Huntingdon and Dr. Deborah Gilbert who trained in Cambridge. They join Dr. Janie Anderson as associate doctors at the Surgery. We have allocated patients from Dr. Smerdon and Dr. Cox’s lists to these new doctors to ensure patients have a named “usual doctor”. Dr. Anderson has already attracted patients to her “list” as she has been here for a few years. We would like to continue to encourage patients to consult their usual doctor, however it’s absolutely fine for you to consult any doctor as you wish or as is necessary.

Use of the telephone is encouraged to improve accessibility to your doctor or the practice nurse (see Access to Clinicians).

You will see from this website the various Specialised Services that are provided and there is further information about the Practice Team members within each section titled Doctors, Clinical Team, and Non-Clinical Team. You will also see links to Self Healthcare and a special section on Healthcare Links that gives you access to numerous other websites to give further information on healthcare matters.

Surgery Opening Hours

The Surgery premises are open from 8.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday.

Every week, the surgery closes from 1.00pm to 2.00pm on Tuesday and Thursday for training, education and computer systems maintenance. There is always an emergency line available should you require it.

Wherever possible we would ask patients to try and make their routine enquiries and collections between the hours 9.00am to 1.00pm when we have most staff available.

Every month, local surgeries are encouraged to close for an afternoon to undergo staff training events. Details of these dates can be found on our website news page, or in our newsletter and displays at the Surgery.

Surgery Times

The majority of doctors start their morning surgeries at 8.30am and offer routine appointments until 11.00am. Afternoon surgeries usually start at 4.00pm and routine appointments are available until 5.30pm.

Not all doctors are available every day and we set out below a timetable showing the usual availability of doctors. This is subject to change and amendment in times of holidays and sickness (Yes even doctors get sick occasionally!).

On Monday and Tuesday mornings we now offer routine pre booked appointments from 7.10 am, please make sure you book with your usual doctor as we have a rota in place. On Thursday evenings we offer routine pre booked appointments from 6.30 pm to 7.45 pm. Again please make sure you are happy to see the doctor working that evening.

All Doctor surgeries are by appointment, and available by contacting 0844 477 3603.

In addition to the Doctors' surgeries our Practice Nursing Team provide a range of services in our specially equipped treatment rooms.

The services range from general treatments often following on from treatment received from or diagnosed by a Doctor such as wound dressings, treatment of cuts, removal of stitches etc., to the delivery of treatment via a number of Specialised Services clinics that are held at specific times.

All Nurse surgery treatments are by appointment, and available by contacting 0844 477 3603.

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