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Enhanced Access Appointments

Convenient appointments when your practice is closed

Your GP practice works in partnership with Greater Peterborough Network (GPN) to provide Enhanced Access appointments outside of normal practice opening hours.

These appointments give you greater flexibility to access routine healthcare at a time that suits you, helping to improve access to primary care across Peterborough.

Enhanced Access appointments are delivered through the GP Hub by an experienced multidisciplinary team, including:

  • GPs
  • Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs)
  • Practice Nurses
  • Healthcare Assistants (HCAs)

GP Hub Opening Hours

The GP Hub is available at the following times: Monday to Friday: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Saturday: 8:30am – 6:30pm

What appointments are available?

  • GP Appointments: Routine GP consultations for a range of non-urgent health concerns.
  • Nurse Appointments: Our Practice Nurses can provide a range of routine treatments and services, including:
    • Cervical screening (smear tests)
    • Dressings and wound care
    • Stitch removal
    • Injections
    • Swabs
  • Healthcare Assistant (HCA) Appointments: Healthcare Assistants can provide a variety of routine health checks and clinical procedures, including:
    • Blood tests (phlebotomy)
    • Blood pressure checks
    • Pulse oximetry
    • NHS Health Checks
    • Diabetic reviews and foot checks

How to book

Enhanced Access appointments cannot be booked directly through the GP Hub.

If you would like an appointment, please contact your registered GP practice. A member of the practice team will discuss your needs and, if appropriate, book you into the next available GP Hub appointment.

Can't visit your surgery during opening hours?

Ask your practice for an appointment at the GP Hub.

Why use Enhanced Access?

Enhanced Access helps make healthcare more convenient by:

  • Providing appointments outside of normal practice opening hours.
  • Offering greater choice and flexibility for patients.
  • Improving access to routine primary care services.
  • Supporting patients who find it difficult to attend appointments during the working day.
  • Helping ensure patients receive the right care in the right place.

If you need advice or would like to book an appointment, please contact your GP practice.

Life Threatening

Call 999 or go to A&E now if:

  • you or someone you know needs immediate help
  • you have seriously harmed yourself – for example, by taking a drug overdose

A mental health emergency should be taken as seriously as a medical emergency.

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Urgent But Not Life Threatening

Visit an urgent care centre if:

  • You have an urgent medical issue requiring on the day attention

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Non-urgent

Use NHS 111 if:

  • You need help now, but it’s not an emergency

There will be someone to provide you with advice and to direct you to a clinician if it is necessary.

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