Wingerworth Surgery

Wingerworth Surgery We are a friendly medical practice offering services from Wingerworth. Our aim is to provide safe and effective care to ALL our registered patients.
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06/03/2026

The next PPG meeting is on Tuesday 10th March at 11.00,

Great work everyone for contributing the Ashgate Hospice.We now have an Easter raffle ongoing - tickets from reception f...
27/02/2026

Great work everyone for contributing the Ashgate Hospice.

We now have an Easter raffle ongoing - tickets from reception for £2 each

27/02/2026

Practice Vacancy – Cleaner

We are seeking a cleaner to join our practice team for 10 hours per week, with flexible working hours available. The successful candidate will work alongside our existing practice cleaner to help maintain a safe, clean, and well‑presented environment for patients and staff.

Please contact Jane – Practice Manager on 01246 275228.

Ear aches are no fun for anyone, but did you know that most children's ear aches get better in the same amount of time W...
24/02/2026

Ear aches are no fun for anyone, but did you know that most children's ear aches get better in the same amount of time WITHOUT antibiotics?

Find out how to help your children’s recover at home, and know when to seek medical help: https://bit.ly/super_bodies_NHS

It's not nice hearing your little one coughing, but did you know that their cough will usually feel better in the same a...
23/02/2026

It's not nice hearing your little one coughing, but did you know that their cough will usually feel better in the same amount of time WITHOUT antibiotics?

Find out how to help your children’s recover at home, and know when to seek medical help: https://bit.ly/super_bodies_NHS

18/02/2026

Patient experts needed

Dr Blanshard is hoping for some volunteer patients to speak to her 2nd year student doctors on the following dates/topics. This would be at 1030am for around 30 minutes.

25th February: Palpitations, ideally Atrial Fibrillation "AF"

4th March: Dementia - ideally a carer of someone with dementia

11th March: Eating Disorder

if you'd like to help please reply below, message us or ring reception and leave Dr Blanshard a message

11/02/2026

The surgery will be closed this afternoon (11/2/26) for mandatory staff training from 1330.
Please contact 111 if you feel you need medical help.
We will open again as normal at 8am 12/2/26.
Many thanks.

09/02/2026

we are very short of clinical staff this morning, responses to urgent queries might take a little longer than usual. If you have a non urgent issue please try to wait til later in the week to contact us

29/01/2026

Lived Experience to share with Student Doctors...

If you have experience of any of the following conditions and would be willing in coming to to talk to first year students from Sheffield in Dr George's tutor group for 30 minutes on the appropriate date please contact us via messenger or ring the surgery

Chronic Kidney Disease - 19th March 2026

Menopause/Perimenopause (especially if you have experience of HRT) 30th April 2026

Chronic Pain - 14th May 2026

The Chesterfield FC Community Trust run a cancer support group every Thursday. If you or a loved one wishes to connect h...
27/01/2026

The Chesterfield FC Community Trust run a cancer support group every Thursday. If you or a loved one wishes to connect here is there flyer with the contact details.

27/01/2026

The recent post in the Wingerworth Village facebook group has triggered mixed feelings in the team. We are hugely grateful to those people who tried to explain what GPs are doing when we aren’t physically seeing a patient in person (processing results, reviewing hospital correspondence, telephone appointments, online triage, repeat prescription requests, child protection meetings, palliative care reviews, frailty conferences, audit, quality improvement etc.) There are clearly a lot of strong feelings out there. When our team are working at (and often beyond) capacity all day it feels disheartening and downright devastating to be accused of of laziness.

Please remember we are all human.

In the days of “open surgery” at Welbeck Drive the GPs usually saw between 8 and 16 patients each in a morning (usually 2 GPs on for the population of c5000 patients). We now have 8000 patients and yesterday morning had 6 GPs in clinic. Our GPs have 15 booked appointments in their clinics (the BMA advise no more than 12 for safe working). Dr George triages on average 110 appointment requests every Monday morning, that’s over 4x the number of “open surgery” sit and waits we’d have under the old system.

We are fortunate to have amazing nurses (we had one part time at the old surgery, we now have 5 nurses who all work near full time hours) Dan our paramedic, two superb clinical pharmacists , a fabulous extended scope physio…. Our admin and reception staff work incredibly hard and often receive a lot of unnecessary grief from the public.

The government insist we have online triage, we know it works well for many people and others of you hate it, you can always ring for an appointment but we are contractually required to offer the online service as first port of call.

We are sorry in spite of all this that we can’t make everyone happy. We are doing our best. In a parody of the words of JM Barrie (Tinkerbell) “every time someone says they don’t believe in GPs another GP dies (or retires early, or emigrates)”. Please value what you have. If you’ve got ideas to make things better please join our patient reference group.

Address

Allendale Road
Chesterfield
S426PX

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 8pm
Tuesday 7am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm

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