Welcome to Perranporth GP Surgery situated on the North Coast of Cornwall.

We are a dispensing practice offering care to approximately 7700 patients from a single site which is located in the heart of the village.

The practice team of doctors, nurses, dispensers and administration staff take pride in providing the highest standard of healthcare. Traditional values are combined with modern advances whilst encouraging patients to be active participants in the care they receive. We offer a full range of medical care plus many other extra services that demonstrate our ethos of innovation for patient benefit.

We are also part of the Coastal Primary Care Network working alongside Chacewater & Devoran, St Agnes and Perranporth Surgeries.

We hope that you will use our website to make the best use of the services we provide.

🩺💉NATIONAL SHORTAGES- Important changes to routine and non-urgent blood test appointments 💉🩺

All GP practices are affected by the current national shortage of blood tubes and are taking urgent steps alongside our hospitals to prioritise their use for people with the greatest clinical need. This includes testing for serious conditions such as cancer.

We are following national guidance which has been issued in response to the shortage. As a result, we need to cancel and delay a number of patient appointments for blood tests deemed routine or non-urgent. If you have a routine blood test appointment the reception team at the surgery will be in touch directly if they need to cancel your appointment, this will be by phone or by text message.

Please be assured that appointments will be rescheduled once the situation has improved, and in line with national guidance. There are a few things you can do if you are affected by this change:

Keep checking our website for regular updates – we will be sharing the latest patient information here as soon as we receive it.
Check your phone for messages from us – we will also be using our patient text service to keep people informed.
Please don’t call or contact us with questions about routine blood tests – we are experiencing exceptional levels of demand at the moment, and your cooperation will help us to reach those without smartphone or internet access with this critical information.
Do get in touch online if your condition worsens or changes so that we can prioritise your blood test if necessary following clinical review. Please use eConsult where possible (via the NHS APP or the link on our website).

The changes are likely to be in place for at least four weeks. We will keep all our patients regularly updated as the national situation changes. We fully understand the frustration this is likely to cause, and apologise for the inconvenience.

WE ARE NOW LIVE ON THE NATIONAL BOOKING SYSTEM!

CHOOSE MOUNT HAWKE COVID CLINICS

If you are 18yrs or older then

Call 119 or go to

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/

Key information for

Vaccination Passports

✅ Access via NHS app from May 17th

✅ Register on NHS app now (guide below)

✅ Contact 119 if need a letter for foreign travel

❌ Please Do NOT contact your GP.

Quick guide to register NHS app: https://youtu.be/Q0SCcLtw8JA

You can access your COVID-19 vaccination status through the free NHS App from 17 May. You can access the app through mobile devices such as a smartphone or by tablet. Proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status will be shown within the NHS App. We recommend that you register with the app before booking international travel.

If you do not have access to a smartphone and know that the country you are travelling to requires COVID-19 vaccination status, you can call the NHS helpline on 119 (from 17 May) and ask for a letter to be posted to you. This must be at least 5 days after you’ve completed your course of the vaccine. We expect the letter to take up to 5 days to reach you.

Please do not contact your GP surgery about your COVID-19 vaccination status. We cannot provide letters showing your COVID-19 vaccination status.

Breast Screening Programme

Women in the Perranporth area aged between 50 and 70 will shortly be invited for breast screening.

We know that if breast cancer is detected early, treatment is more successful and there is a good chance of survival.

Locally, huge efforts have been made to safely restore the breast screening service which had previously been impacted by the pandemic.

As a practice, we strongly support breast screening programme and urge women to attend when invited.

If you are not in this age group but have noticed changes in your breast such as lumps, skin changes, a newly inverted nipple or nipple discharge [especially 1 sided], please make an appointment with one of our doctors.

Further information about breast screening can be found here:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/breast-cancer-screening/

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/breast-cancer/getting-diagnosed/screening/breast-screening

Further information about the signs of breast cancer can be found here:

https://knowyourlemons.org/

Breast Cancer