What is Enhanced Access?
How Enhanced Access can help you...
In today’s fast-paced world, finding time for personal healthcare during regular working hours can be challenging. Enhanced Access addresses this issue by offering extended availability that includes evenings and weekends, enabling patients to receive healthcare services at a time that best fits their schedule.
This is particularly beneficial for working individuals and families, the elderly, and others with time constraints who might otherwise struggle to make appointments. By providing a more flexible approach to appointment scheduling, Enhanced Access reduces the risk of missed or delayed care, resulting in more timely diagnoses and treatments.
Moreover, Enhanced Access can help decrease the overall burden on emergency healthcare services. By providing more convenient hours for routine and non-emergency care, it helps to direct patient flow away from emergency departments, allowing these services to focus more effectively on urgent cases.
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How Farnham PCN delivers Enhanced Access...
The Farnham practices continue to work together and will be offering routine appointments to their registered patients through NHS England’s new Patient Extended Access. Routine GP appointments are now available on Saturday mornings in Farnham and Sunday mornings at Frimley Park Hospital. Routine Practice Nurse and Healthcare Assistant appointments will be available Monday-Friday evenings and Saturday mornings in Farnham.
Four of the five Farnham practices are already established in seeing patients for their same day appointments in the Farnham Integrated Care Centre. The Extended Access appointments will give patients from all five practices the opportunity to see a doctor, nurse or health care assistant for a routine appointment outside the core hours of their GP practice. The appointments are all booked through the patient’s home practice reception team. However, the appointment will take place at the Farnham Integrated Care Centre based in Farnham Centre for Health.
The Sunday morning appointments at Frimley are also Patients are also able to book routine GP appointments on a Sunday morning through their home practice. These appointments will take place at Frimley Park Hospital, Out-Patient 1.
