Oxgate Gardens Surgery
81 Oxgate Gardens
London, NW2 6EA
Tel: 0844 4997042

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Welcome to Oxgate Gardens Surgery Website

By using our website we hope to improve our services to all our patients and enable you to find the information you require at the click of a mouse.

Appointments

Below please find a letter from the Practice Manager with regards to patient concerns regarding waiting for an appointment.

Dear Patient,

Firstly I like to apologise for any inconvenience caused and would like to take this opportunity of explaining how our Practice operates.

Oxgate Gardens takes great pride in providing an excellent service to all our patients. This Practice does not treat patients as “time slots”, but as individuals. The health authority states each patient is to be given a time slot of up to 10 minutes. As you know depending on the illness and the emergency 10 minutes is not long enough. The doctor will therefore treat each patient as an individual and their medical condition accordingly.

By providing this excellent service this will invariable mean that patients will be kept waiting. OxgateGardens tries to ensure that a patient is seen quickly however, on occasions this is unavoidable. During these times the surgery would be grateful if you do not take out your frustration on the reception staff whose job is to ensure all patients are given the best NHS service possible.

It is also important that a patient arrives on time because even if the doctor is running late a patient arriving late puts extra pressure on the system and therefore that patient will have to wait until the end of the morning.

The NHS provides an excellent service but it has time constraints. If you feel that a referral to a hospital is taking too long then you always have an option of going private, again please do not take out your frustration on the reception staff.

Please help OxgateGardens provide an excellent service by working with us.

Kind regards

Carolyn Matthews

Practice Manager

Health and Safety

Remember the golden rule: do not open the door to anyone unless identification has been proven.

1. All doctors, pharamcies, district nurses, health care professionals will always telephone first. Arrange a time and day to visit and confirm the name of the person coming to see you.

2. Check identification before opening the door.

3. If in doubt do not open the door and call the doctors surgery.

Thank you. Your health and safety is important to us.

To Register with Oxgate Gardens Surgery

If you wish to become a patient please click on 2. Register as a Pateint

Patient Participation Group

If you are interested in taking part please click on to the symbol found on the right.

Harness Consortium

Oxgate is one of the sixteen practices which comprises Harness for further details please click 1. Harness Consortium for further information.

Meetings and Presentations for Brent Patients

Harness Patient Forum - to be confirmed
Oxgate Gardens Patient Participation Group Forum -

For further detailed advice please see our Seasonal Flu page accessible from the top left menu under Clinics and Services.

NHS Health Check

Patients aged between 40 year old and 74 years old and who are not on a disease register are eligible for a health check. For further information please speck to reception.

MMR Booster vaccination available for 6 - 36 years old

You are entitled to the MMR booster so If you or your child are unsure of whether you have had the MMR booster please contact reception.

Chlamydia Screening

We offer free chlamydia screening (testing) to all men and women aged between 16 - 24.

Most people don't know they have chlamydia and that it can cause pain and infertility if left untreated. 1 in 10 people have chlamydia - are you the one?

Chlamydia testing does not require booked appointments, examinations or blood tests. Please enquire at reception

For more information see link: http://sexualhealthbrent.org.uk/

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Improve Our Services

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Please note we do not deal with any form of query via the web page at present.

Further Information

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