This short online form is a quick and simple way for our patients to access our clinical team for assistance. Our practice phone lines remain open as usual.

Please do not use this online form for urgent or emergency requests. The submitted forms will only be read during office hours. The forms will not be read on the weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) or on bank holidays. They will not be read Monday-Friday between the hours of 1800 – 0900. Please contact 111 during out of hours or 999 if this is an emergency.

Welcome to Arbury Road Surgery

We are using a new online service called Register with a GP surgery that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery.

Just fill in this quick online form to start the process. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number. Please use the link below to access this service.

https://gp-registration.nhs.uk/D81016

The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe. It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register.

Paper forms are still available if you need one.

Contact our reception team here: 01223 364433

Opening times

OUR CONTRACTED HOURS ARE MONDAY – FRIDAY 08:00 – 18:30

Our Consulting times are between 08:00 and 18:00

Please note that at certain times, eg. Lunch or end of the day, a clinician may not be present in this building.

For any emergency please dial 999 or attend the local Emergency Department at Addenbrooke’s hospital.

For non-urgent matters that cannot wait until we reopen please call 111.

Weight Loss Injections including Semaglutide (Wegovy or Ozempic) or Tirzepatide (Mounjaro); pregnancy, contraceptive pill and HRT.

Weight Loss Injections and the Pill

Weight loss injection can stop the oral contraceptive pill from working correctly, which could put you at risk of unplanned pregnancy.

If you are using weight loss injections and the oral contraceptive pill and have concerns, please submit an online consultation request for advice from a clinician.

Weight loss medication and HRT.

Weight loss medications can affect how your body absorbs oral HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy). This is because some weight loss drugs,like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro), can slow down the digestive process, potentially reducing the effectiveness of oral HRT.  If you have concerns please submit an online consultation request for advice from a clinician.

Weight loss injections and Pregnancy
There is not enough safety data to know whether taking a GLP-1 medicine can cause harm to the baby. For this reason do not take weight loss injections, GLP-1 medicines if you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant or breastfeeding. If you get pregnant while using them, speak to a healthcare professional and stop them as soon as possible.

Prescribing of weight loss medication.

General Practices in Cambridge are not prescribing tirzepatide, or any other GLP-1 agonist, for managing overweight and obesity.

NHS England prescribing guidance, accepted by the Cambridgeshire ICB, states that only people in the highest risk cohort of obesity are to receive treatment with GLP-1 agonists at this time.

Patients meeting the following eligibility criteria can now be referred to the Healthy You service for assessment for tirzepatide:

• With a BMI of 40kg/m2 or above(or 37.5 kg/m2 for people from South Asian, Chinese, other Asian, Middle Eastern, Black African or African-Caribbean ethnic backgrounds) .

AND 

At least FOUR out of the following five diagnosed health conditions

1. Established Type 2 diabetes
2. Hypertension requiring blood pressure lowering therapy
3. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
4. Obstructive sleep apnoea where treatment is indicated i.e. continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
5. Dyslipidaemia requiring treatment

Other weight services will continue to be available.

Respect our reception team

Receptionists are not ‘just admin’ — they are patient advocates, navigating complex systems to get people the care they need. They are the gateway to the clinical team, and without them, there is no access. But constant abuse is pushing them to breaking point. Burnout is rising, and we are losing skilled staff who can no longer absorb the emotional toll. This campaign is a call for compassion — because protecting our reception teams protects access to care. You don’t know what happened on the call they just took..

A message from the British Medical Association ….

Dental issues

Our GPs are not able to fully assess and treat dental problems.  Treating patients with dental problems is not a GP responsibility, even if a patient is not registered with a dentist because:

1. GPs are not trained to deal with dental issues, and
2. Dental treatment is not a contractual requirement.

If you have toothache or any other dental issue you need to contact a local dentist or call 111.

Hypertension Day 

It is Hypertension Day on the 17th May and Boots Grafton Centre are happy to see any of our patients to have their blood pressure checked.

Latest News

Posted on October 6th, 2023

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