Our practice is working with other local GP practices as part of a Primary Care Network’ (PCN). Our aim in collaborating is to increase the scope of services we can offer.

As part of this we are providing appointments in the evening and at weekends. These include face-to-face and telephone GP appointments, nursing services and health coaching.

We intend to increase the range of what we can offer, but in the meantime please contact us on 0203 474 6400 to book an out-of-hours appointment at our PCN hub.

Alternatively, please visit 111 online or call 111 to be directed to the help you need. If it’s not urgent you can also use the online consultation form on the practice website, which will be responded to in practice hours.

We are supporting a London-wide campaign to encourage more patients to do their free NHS bowel cancer screening home test, which checks if you could have bowel cancer.

People who are the right age are sent a free NHS FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) kit every two years. You use it to collect a small sample of poo and post it back to an NHS lab.

The campaign by NHS London, “Your next poo could save your life”, urges more people to use their kit – a message we wholeheartedly endorse.

Screening can help prevent bowel cancer and find it at an early stage when it’s easier to treat. People who complete their screening are 25% less likely to die of bowel cancer.

The kits are for people with no symptoms and most people get the all-clear.

If you are aged 56, 58 (on or after 16 May 2022) or 60 to 74 and we have your correct address, you will be sent a kit every 2 years. Please use it. By April 2025, bowel cancer screening kits will be for everyone aged 50 to 74 in England.

To find out more and hear from other Londoners about their experience of bowel cancer screening, visit www.healthylondon.org/bcs

If you have symptoms of bowel cancer which last for three weeks or more, please contact the practice and ask for an appointment.