About Us

l practice was formed in 1993, and has seen a steady growth in practicBarlborough Medicae list size from it’s opening. There are two full time GP Principles, Dr Andrew Palmer MBChB (Leicester 1984), DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP and Dr Judy Gardner MBChB MRCGP (Manchester 1987). (They hold a contract with Derbyshire County PCT, to provide personal medical services).

We have two part time GP’s, Dr Helen Preston MBChB (Leicester 1996) DFFP, DRCOG, MRCGP

and Dr Olayinka Olubowale MBBS, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP (University of Ibadan 1997)

Barlborough Medical practice is a semi-rural dispensing practice run from two sites, a main surgery at Barlborough and a branch at Renishaw.

The Renishaw building is shared with another Practice, our reception can be found through the main entrance and down the first corridor on the left. The Practice area includes Barlborough, Renishaw, Clowne, Eckington, Killamarsh, Spinkhill, Mastin Moor, Marsh Lane, Harthill, Whitwell, Creswell, Elmton, Mosborough, Halfway, Norbriggs and Stanfree.

We are dedicated to offering the best level of Primary care we can for our patients.  Systems are in place to make our service run as efficiently as possible.  At busy times however, or if consultations are running over, your wait may be longer than expected.  Please be patient with us at such times, we are doing our best! We welcome patient views on the service we provide.  If you wish to contact us regarding any specific issues, including complaints please write to Nigel Atkin, the Practice Manager.

We offer a wide range of medical services at both branches, including Child Health Surveillance, contraceptive services, including a vasectomy service, and flu clinics, minor surgery including cryotherapy, maternity medical services, health visitor, baby clinics and counselling.  We also undertake regular surveillance of chronic illness and provide anticoagulation monitoring and smoking cessation clinics.  We are a dispensing practice, meaning that we are able to provide medications directly to any of our patients who live more than a mile from a Chemist.

Please order repeat prescriptions Mon-Fri between 8.30 am and 4.00 pm and also 48 hours before collection.  No prescription requests will be taken after 4.00 pm to allow for order processing.

If you need a Doctor while the surgeries are closed telephone 01246 819994.  This will divert your call to our Out of Hours service provider, Derbyshire Health United, Scarsdale, Nightingale Close, Newbold Road, Chesterfield, this service is commissioned by Derbyshire County PCT, Trust Headquarters, Scarsdale, nightingdale Close, off newbold Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S41 7PF. Tel: (01246) 231255 Fax: (01246) 514164

www.derbyshirecountypct.nhs.uk

Information regarding late night pharmacies can be found in the local press, such as the Derbyshire Times, 

or by calling NHS Direct on 0845 4647

Patient’s rights & responsibilities

You have the right to expect a high standard of medical care from out practice and we will try at all times to provide the very best care possible within the resources available.

In order to assist us in this we require that you take full responsibility for ensuring that you do not abuse the service.  For example, it is your responsibility to ensure that you keep medical appointments and follow the medical advice given.  Very occasionally a practice/patient relationship breaks down completely.  In this situation the patient may choose to register with a different practice.  The practice also has the right to remove the patient from their list.  The patient would be given a specific reason for the removal, and nit would only occur after a previous warning had failed to remedy the situation.

Violent Patient Zero Tolerance

The NHS operates a zero tolerance policy with regard to violence and abuse and the practice has the right to remove violent patients from the list with immediate effect in order to safeguard practice staff, patients and other persons.  Violence in this context includes actual or threatened physical violence or verbal abuse, which leads to fear for a person’s safety.

In this situation we are obliged to notify the patient in writing of their removal from the list and record in the patent’s medical records the fact of the removal and circumstances leading to it.  

The PCT is then responsible for providing further medical care for such patients.

Access to Patient Information

Confidential patient data will be shared within the practice health care team and with other health care professionals to whom you are referred for care.  Those clinical teams providing your care for the essential purpose of clinical audit may use your data.

Confidential patient data may be required for the broader purpose of public health and audit, research and the provision of health care services teaching and training.  Data disclosed will be kept to the minimum required to service the purpose and if possible will be anonymous before disclosure.

Confidential and identifiable patient information will not be disclosed otherwise without explicit consent, unless;

1.    It is a matter of life and death or serious harm to you or to another individual

2.    It is overwhelmingly in the public interest to do so

3.    There is a legal obligation to do so.