NHS App
Try the NHS App
If you’re a patient at our practice, you can use the NHS App to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.
It doesn’t replace existing services.
You can still contact us in the usual ways. But, once you have verified your identity in the app, you will have easy, 24/7 access to a growing range of health services and information.
What the NHS App does
- Advice and information:
– Search symptoms, conditions, and treatments
– Get health advice through 111 online
– Find NHS services near you
– Check your NHS number - Appointments:
– Book and cancel appointments
– Check your referrals and hospital appointments
– Manage vaccinations - Prescriptions:
– Nominate a pharmacy
– Order repeat prescriptions
– Track when your prescription is ready to collect - Manage your health:
– Access your GP health record securely
– Register your organ donation decision
– Take part in health research - Send and receive messages:
– Send an online form about your symptoms, conditions, or treatment directly to the surgery
– Receive messages and notifications
– View messages from your GP surgery and get notifications through your phone or tablet - Help someone else:
– Link profiles (Proxy Access). You can apply to access the health records, appointments and prescriptions of people you care for (including children) – or get help from someone you trust
– For more information on proxy access follow this link: Proxy Access – Witton Street Surgery
Get the app
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For more information on how to use the NHS App
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You can still contact the practice by phone or in person, this is just another option, which other patients have found is more convenient and saves them time. More information including “how to” leaflets and videos of patients and why they are using GP online services are available at www.nhs.uk/gponlineservices
