Health

Kingsclere Health Centre
North Street, Kingsclere, Newbury, RG20 5QX

The Health Centre is in the centre of the village, immediately behind The Crown public house and opposite St Mary's Church. All parts of the Health Centre are at ground floor level and are easily accessible by wheelchair and a disabled toilet is available.

Practice Manager: Win Harfield
General Practitioners - Dr Sarah Bond, Dr Sarah Still, Dr Philip White, Dr Mark Wotherspoon, Dr Alison Steare
Practice Nurses - Janet Lundy, Marion Smith, Kate Miles

Health Centre Opening Hours Monday to Friday 8.30am - 1.00pm, 2pm - 6.30pm

Contacting the Practice by Telephone
The Health Centre telephone system provides rapid access to all the services offered by the Practice. We have dedicated telephone numbers for the dispensary and repeat prescriptions for booking appointments and for certain other services. By using the appropriate number you will help our staff respond more quickly to your call.

Main Number (day, night, weekends): 01635 296000
Dispensary and Repeat Prescriptions (Health Centre opening hours): 01635 296001
Appointments (Health Centre Opening Hours): 01635 296002
Fax Number: 01635 299282

WHAT TO DO in an EMERGENCY
In an emergency, at any time of day or night, you should call the Health Centre on 01635 296000
Modern telecommunications ensure you will always get a rapid response to an emergency call at any time of day or night. The exact nature of the response will however vary at different times of day and on different days.
When the Health Centre is Open: During Health Centre opening hours you will be connected to one of our reception staff, who can arrange for you to speak to a Doctor as soon as possible. At very busy times, a call queuing system is sometimes in operation, but this can be bypassed by following the instructions on the recorded message.
Weekday Lunchtime 1pm - 2pm: The telephone will be diverted to an answer service. If you need to contact us urgently please leave a message. A doctor is always available to return your call if required.
When the Health Centre is Closed: Your call to the Health Centre main telephone number will be transferred automatically to the control room of 'Hantsdoc' who provide out of hours care for our patients. Altenatively you can call them direct on 0118 936 5592

Hantsdoc
Tel: 0118 936 5592
North Hampshire Hospital, Aldermaston Road, Basingstoke
Web: www.hantsdoc.org.uk

When you contact the Kingsclere Health Centre out of hours your call is re-directed to Hantsdoc. Hantsdoc has been in operation since 1996 and provides out of hours service using local GP's. The organisation provides a comprehensive medical service for patients needing a health care professional outside normal working hours.

How the service works
The call handler will ask you for your telephone number, name and address, date of birth which doctor you are registered with and a brief description of the sumptoms you are calling about.
Thje duty doctor or nurse will phone you cak to discuss ypour problem. You may be given advice on how to manage the problem yourself, or you may be asked to attend opur Primary Care Centre at North Hampshire Hospital Alternatively, if there is a medical reason you cannot attend the centre, the doctor may decide to visit you at home. All telephone call are recorded for patients safety.

Hantsdoc also operate a walk-in surgery at North Hampshire Hospital adjacent to the A&E entrance at nights and weekends.

The Village Dental Practice
Dr Neel Tank and Associates
Kingsclere Health Centre, North Street, Kingsclere, RG20 5QX
Telephone: 01635 297331 Web site: www.mldp.info

Opening hours: Monday & Thursday 8am - 4pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 9am - 5pm, Friday 9am - 4pm

Emergency numbers:
On weekdays, you can call the surgery during open hours to make an emergency appointment: 01635 297 331. This number also applies for out of hours emergencies.
On weekends, call the emergency hotline on 07659 487 428, the on-call dentist will be able to help you.
The closest accident and emergency hospital to Kingsclere is located in Basingstoke.

Providing a high standard of care that you deserve

      • Cosmetic Dentistry
      • Preventative and Oral Hygiene Care
      • Tooth Whitening
      • Dental implants for missing teeth and stable dentures
      • Facial Lines corrective treatment
For full details of all our services visit our web site www.mldp.inf

Kingsclere Pharmacy
Swan Street, Kingsclere
Pharmacist: Rahil Butt, MRPharms
Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9am - 6.00pm Wednesday, Saturday: 9am - 1pm Closed for lunch: 1pm - 2pm

We can dispense both NHS and private prescriptions. The pharmacist can also give you advice on when and how to take your medicine. When we dispense your prescriptions we keep a record of the medicines dispensed. When you next bring your prescriptions here our records will quickly tell us of any interactions.
Unwanted medicines can be returned to us for safe disposal.
You will find health education leaflets on display in the pharmacy.

Emergency Dispensing:
At night, on Sundays and public holidays please contact your local police.
Boots the Chemists offer a late night dispensing service at:
Chineham Shopping Centre, Basingstoke Tel: 01256 471414
Newbury Retail Park, Pinchington Lane, Newbury Tel: 01635 552570
as do Tesco at their store in Pinchington Lane, Newbury up until 10.30pm see www.tesco.com for exact times.

Chiropody
Mrs C Tipple, MAChPod, HPC Registered
Tel: 01635 248316 or mobile 0777 300 6742

Registered member of the Institute of Chiropodists and Podiatrists.
Ring for a brochure, visits, appointments.
Also Consultant Hypnotherapist, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Therapeutic massage, Kinesiology

Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust
(Basingstoke Hospital)
Aldermaston Road (A340), Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Telephone 01256 473202

Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust (BNHFT) provides acute hospital services to a population of around 300,000 patients in Basingstoke, Tadley, Alton and Bordon as well as surrounding towns and villages in north and mid Hampshire and West Berkshire.

The majority of services are provided from Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, which was built to the north of Basingstoke town in the 1970s; but we also provide outpatient and assessment services from the Alton and Bordon community hospitals.

BNHFT also provide a number of specific services for rare or complex illnesses for patients across the UK, including liver cancer, prostate cancer and pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare lower abdominal cancer). We also provide the regional haemophilia service.

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital has over 400 beds, from which it provides a full range of services for patients who need both planned and emergency treatment. This includes our purpose built Diagnosis and Treatment Centre (DTC) , a modern planned care centre, which opened in February 2005.

With an annual income of over £120 million , the hospital employs 2400 staff who manage and care for the 180,000 patients each year.

NHS Direct
Telephone 0845 46 47

What is NHS Direct?
NHS Direct is at the forefront of 24-hour health care - delivering telephone and e-health information services day and night direct to the public. Although the organisation started out in 1997, it has been growing and changing over that time, most noticeably since April 2004.

It is now far more than a telephone health line - NHS Direct has an authoritative health website, and 2004 saw the addition of the NHS Direct digital TV service - one of the largest interactive services in the UK. Over two million people now access NHS Direct every month.

British Red Cross
Kingsclere Health Centre
Contact: Rosemary Crockford
Telephone: 01635 298252

Trained/First Aid - group meet Mondays 7.30 - 9.30pm - phone to confirm.
Equipment loan service - Tuesday - Friday mornings phone 01635 298485 to check hours.
Public courses - Telephone as above or 01730 266432
For First Aid cover - Telephone 01962 867309