Welcome to West End Medical Practice
Repeat Prescription Ordering?The practice advises our patients to order your prescriptions at the earliest time possible. NO prescriptions can be ordered over the telephone, as the practice needs a complete paper trail for patient safety and auditing purposes Have You Run Out of Medications?If you have run out of your medications please contact your pharmacist in the first instance. Your pharmacy can issue most medications on an emergency basis. After that please make a request for your medications from the Practice website. Online repeat PrescriptionsDue to increased Covid 19 demands on the surgery and the local pharmacies the method or ordering repeat prescriptions will be enhanced. All new and existing patients will need to register for the new service. All patients must have a valid email address for this new service and is used solely by you or your representative. Please click on this link to register for the new service. New Repeat Prescription Ordering Registration Service Change of AddressIt is very important that we hold a correct address and telephone number for you. If either of these changes, please notify us. Please click on the link below to complete the change of address form. |
Out of hours
Getting a Doctor out of normal surgery hours:
Telephone NHS 24 on 111
In an emergency call 999
Minor Injuries Unit
The Minor Injuries Unit at the Western General Hospital:
Open seven days a week from 9.00am to 9.00pm.
No appointment is necessary.
www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Doctors
Partners
Dr Dean G Pope MBChB (Edinburgh) 1986, DRCOG, FRCGP
Dr Kirsten Macdonald MBChB (Aberdeen) 1991, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP
Dr Catherine Smith MBChB (Glasgow) 2003, DRCOG, DFFP, MRCGP
Dr Rory O’Conaire BSc, MBChB (Aberdeen) 2005, MRCGP
Salaried GP
Dr Emily Schofield – currently on maternity leave
Dr Emily Beirne
Dr Claire Reeve
Dr Katie Emerson
Dr Jennifer Devine – currently on maternity leave
GP Registrars
Dr Nicole Machnikowski
Clinics & Services
Pharmacy, Community Physiotherapy, Community Nursing, Community Mental Health, Dietetics, Chiropody, Dental Services, Radiology and a range of consultant clinics.
Change of Address
It is very important that we hold a correct address and telephone number for you. If either of these changes, please notify us. You may change your address by notifying the Practice in writing and we would ask that you provide a valid proof of your new address with this information. Acceptable proof of address should be a recent council tax bill, recent utility bill, television license or an in-date lease or rental agreement.
Register with our practice
The practice is now accepting emergency patients only. Information regarding all surgeries in your area can be obtained from NHS24 at www.nhs24.com or by telephoning the Health Authority Enquiries on 0800224488.
Repeat Prescriptions
Our patients are able to order repeat prescription items online. These items are listed on the right hand side of your repeat prescription computer slip.
Agree to the Practice Contacting you by Email
The Practice is considering new ways of contacting patients in order to decrease reliance on paper-based systems. To this end we would like to start collecting accurate email addresses for patients so that we may correspond in that way. We would like to make patients aware however that anything we send from the Lothian Network to a web-based address is no longer considered strictly secure. The sort of correspondence we would use email for would be routine recall letters and not sensitive health information, unless with the explicit consent of the patient.
If you would like to provide us with consent to contact you via email, please complete the consent form.