Dolphin House Surgery

Surgery Details:
Dolphin House Surgery:
6/7 East Street
Ware
Hertfordshire
SG12 9HJ
(T) 01920 468777 (F) 01920 484892

Sheffield House:
21 High Street
Stanstead Abbotts
Hertfordshire
SG12 8AA
(T) 01920 870196
(F) 01920 877566

Private Travel Clinic

Dolphin House surgery now runs a private travel clinic called 'The Hertford Travel Clinic'

If you are thinking of going abroad for a 2 week break or travelling the world on a gap year then please click here for more information on the services offered.

Your GP Cares

Do you want more time with your GP?  If yes then please show your support by joining the BMA campaign.

We, like all GPs, are running at maximum plus capacity.  We are constantly trying to improve access for you the patients and have introduced booked telephone consultations on top of normal clinics, created more minor illness slots and are currently piloting a 'just 5 minutes' clinic for simple problems, however demand continues to go up.  Please spare two minutes to watch this or read below.

People are living longer and have more complex health needs. In the UK there are now more than 10 million people aged 65 and over.

Demand for GP services is increasing. In England alone, it is estimated that at least 340 million patient consultations are now undertaken every year, up 40 million since 2008.

More people are living with a chronic condition, with many supported in the community by their GP and their practice team. For these patients, the ten minutes available in a standard appointment simply isn’t long enough.

There is more demand than ever for GP services – more patients to see, more test results to read, more paperwork. Yet there are still the same number of hours in the day.

Your GP and practice team care about the current situation and want to work with patients and government to find solutions and provide a better service.

The BMA is calling for long term sustainable investment in GP services now to:
• Attract, retain and expand the number of GPs
• Expand the number of practice staff
• Improve the premises that GP services are provided from

Show your support at YourGPCares.

 

Practice Survey

Thank you to all those who took the time to complete this years practice survey.  Please see the results and final report here.

You can also now keep up to date by following us on twitter. Follow @DolphinHseWare

We are changing computer system

We are moving our computer supplier on the 7^Th April this year.  Dolphin House was one of the very first practices in the area to introduce computers to the surgery for making appointments.  Over time computer use has slowly grown to the extent that we are now fully computerised and the hospitals are slowly catching up with primary care and the world of paper will soon be a memory within the NHS.  However, as computer use has grown, the vast number of suppliers as slowly dwindled and we now find ourselves in a position where we are the only practice in Hertfordshire using our system.  Though it functions perfectly well it does not integrate with systems being developed in Hertfordshire and as we pride ourselves on staying ahead of the curve in Hertfordshire we have made the decision to move.

 

How does this affect you?

 

In principal you should notice minimal changes to your experience when at Dolphin House.  There will be a different arrival interface for you to enter your details on and the ping calling you in will be different.  The week before going live will involve not being able to book the week ahead as the systems cannot talk to each other, but we are anticipating no other disruption to our daily service.

 

The main change is for those who currently use our “Waiting Room” site for booking appointments and ordering repeat scripts.  As this is part of our current system, it will no longer be available and will be replaced by our new provider’s website.  This unfortunately will mean new usernames and passwords for you, as the old ones can not be transferred.  We will keep all of you currently using the “Waiting Room” informed by email of how you can get online and how to make the change, so you are ready to go live with the new system at the same time we do.

Have we got your correct phone details?

With the move to mobile phones, we are finding that the phone numbers we have for our patients are frequently out of date.  Please inform us if you change your phone number as we always try to phone you first before writing to you if there is a query about your latest blood tests, hospital letters etc.

Also if we have a mobile phone number for you we can also send you text message reminders (with your permission) about your next appointment as well as give you advance warning of flu clinics and other useful information.  

 

 

Your records and data sharing what you need to know

More information can be found in the official information booklet HERE

 If you do want to opt out of sharing your data please fill this form out and drop, email (if rescanned back on with your signature) or fax it to the surgery.