Welcome to Burnbank Medical Centre

With patient’s needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been designed to make it easy for you to gain instant access to the information you need. As well as specific practice details such as opening hours and how to register you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations. 

Please have a look around our website and familiarise yourself with what the Practice has to offer. We work closely with Community Nursing, Health Visiting and Specialist Teams to ensure your care is co-ordinated to the highest of standards.

Patients may not need to see a GP in the first instance for an appointment, please see our Self Referrals and Minor Ailments tab for more information.

Access

There is a large car park to the right of the building. There is ramp access at the Main Entrance for disabled patients.

• For common ailments such as coughs, colds, 'flu', sore throats, cold sores, nasal congestion, hay fever, back ache, athlete's foot, constipation, period pain, thrush, threadworms and warts or verrucae, your community pharmacy can give you advice. Your pharmacist can give you medicine on the NHS without you having to pay for it under the minor ailments scheme.
• NHS 24 111 offer telephone health advice and an information service where you can talk confidentially to nurses or health information advisers
• The family child nurses at Udston Hospital can offer support and advice for new mothers and problems with babies and small children
• For dental problems, you should see a dentist. If you are not registered with a dentist, contact our Community Primary Care Department  on 01236 707711

Community Pharmacists operate a Minor Ailments service for children, over 60s and patients in receipt of certain benefits. This covers advice and free treatment (if needed) for a variety of minor illnesses and complaints such as acne, athlete’s foot, backache, cold sores, constipation, cough, diarrhoea, earache, eczema and allergies, haemorrhoids (piles), hayfever, headache, head lice, indigestion, mouth ulcers, nasal congestion, pain, period pain, thrush, sore throat, threadworms, warts and verrucae.

ALWAYS CALL 999 IF SOMEOME IS SERIOUSLY ILL OR INJURED AND THEIR LIFE IS AT RISK