Welcome to The Three Shires Medical Practice
We are a group practice with four surgeries in the villages of Colerne, Marshfield, Pucklechurch and Wick. We serve a large area of around 100 square miles. Each of our surgeries has a full compliment of staff, with onsite dispensary.
For opening times and Information about your surgery please click on your surgery name above.
At some surgeries you may be asked if you can travel to one of our other surgeries for some services, due to space constraints.
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Long Term Condition Appointments |
If you have a long-term condition such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, pre-diabetes, asthma or COPD you will be invited to annual review of your condition(s). We aim to review all long-term conditions in your birthday month. We will let you know when you are able to book your appointment via a text message or a letter. You may need to see more than one clinician depending on your condition(s), however we will try and combine appointments where we can. For more information about the appointments please see the leaflets below. Long-Term Condition Appointments Patient Information Diabetes Appointment Patient Information |
Covid + Flu Vaccination Programme | The COVID-19 Spring 2024 Vaccination Program is now open for bookings. COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions. For these reasons, people aged 75 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system are being offered a spring dose of COVID-19 vaccine. We will contact you either via text message or via a call to book your appointment. You can also call your surgery to book in for the vaccination if you are eligible. To offer more flexibility we offer clinics at Marshfield Community Centre, Christchurch Family Medical Practice, The Orchard Medical Centre and Emersons Green Medical Centre. There are also some appointments available at you local surgery. If you have any questions please contact your surgery. |
Community Pharmacies | For access to community pharmacies during bank holidays please see find a pharmacy webpage |
PPE and Masks | For Practice Administration Staff not in direct patient contact, or behind screens, masks are optional. Clinical staff will continue to wear PPE when seeing patients, but will assess risk individually. We continue to ask patients to wear masks when seeing clinicians face to face, and while waiting in the waiting room for any period. This is very important if you are ill, cough cold or temperature due to the risk of infecting vulnerable people in the surgery. Many thanks for your continued co-operation. |
Firearms Application
Medical Reports- Feb 2022
new Fee | In January 2022 , the Police Firearms Licensing Authority have introduced stricter checks on new firearms applications and renewals. They now have asked applicants to obtain a report from their GP prior to renewal. This new process is comprehensive and time consuming for us, involving a GP reading an entire medical record, and vouching for the presence or absence of medical conditions. Although we understand their position, they have declined to fund or pay for this process which they have effectively transferred to the NHS. Due to the complexity of this, we will now charge £86.67 +VAT for completion of these forms, which we have to return directly to the licensing authority. |
Social Prescribing Comes to Three Shires
To find out how the Social Prescribing Team can support you please read these information guides Information Sheet Leaflet
Live Long and Well- An Information leaflet designed to help you stay in control of your own health
We would like to hear your feedback! CLICK HERE
We will be submitting monthly returns of your feedback. This could be from patients, families or visitors to our surgeries.
Improved Access
We are working together with other local practices to offer more appointments in the early mornings, evenings or at weekends. Please contact your Surgery if you require more information.
Working within our current staffing capacity we are doing our best to ensure that you have access to additional appointments outside of core hours. As a result you may be offered an early morning or evening appointment. If this is something you would prefer please ask about availability when booking an appointment.
(Site updated 17/04/2024)