Dronfield Medical Practice

08/12/2025

Brilliant news that Sheffield’s Safe Square is back in operation for the festive period. More information below. 🫶🏼

The festive season is in full swing and the Christmas lights are shining across the city! 🎄 We’re back 10pm–4am on Barkers Pool starting from tonight and right through all December weekends to help keep your celebrations safe 💚

We can help you with:
🚑 - Medical assistance for you or one of your friends feels poorly or unwell.
🚨- Report any suspicious or dangerous behaviour (guide us on what you want us to do: we can report it immediately to all authorities, the City's CCTV network and venues to help keep the City Centre safe.)
🔋- You need to charge your phone for free!
💬 - You want a quick cuppa and a chat with one of our trained members of the team
📍 - You've lost your mates and want to be safe whilst waiting to meet back up with them.

You can contact us though any bar or club or call our dedicated phone on 07508669890 📱

As we always say, we hope you don't need us, but if you do then we've got you!

02/12/2025

Sharing this for any of our patients who are struggling to get NHS dental care. 🦷🪥🤍

People who need urgent dental care in Derbyshire are being urged to take up extra appointments that are now available, if they need them.

02/12/2025

We are very proud to be highlighted again in the Derbyshire Times (and to be described as ‘superb’ ☺️ )

Last week as well as putting up our Christmas decorations, we had a meeting with our MP to discuss some of the challenges we face and hopes for the future. 🙏🏼

We will continue to deliver the best care we can within the funding we receive, and appreciate everyone’s support and understanding. ❤️

19/11/2025

We would like to make patients aware that currently the wait for a routine appointment is longer than we would like. 🦠 This is due to a combination of factors but the most impact has arisen from a huge surge in demand for appointments due to circulating winter viruses. 🦠

In previous years we have received extra resources in the winter period (funding, other clinics set up externally for general practice to refer to). This year we have not. 😔

We have budgeted to allow some locum help in December, but this will be a drop in the ocean. We expect the run up to Christmas to be very busy. 😰

Our reception staff will endeavour to offer an appointment, however for routine issues this could be now be a few weeks away. 🗓️

We ask that patients use our services responsibly. Please do not ask for an urgent appointment if your issue is not truly urgent.
Urgent appointments have to be protected for those with highest clinical need and not for patient convenience.

What can you do to help 🙏🏼

▫️Self care for mild or self limiting illness.

▫️Use your local pharmacist or 111.

▫️Self refer to physio for muscular problems.

▫️Eye problems are best seen by your optician.

▫️If you already have an appointment booked with us please wait for that appointment to discuss ongoing issues.

▫️Use consultation time efficiently. Don’t waste time discussing problems you encounter in the NHS unless they are clinically relevant. We sympathise but often our hands are tied.

▫️Please phone hospitals directly about hospital appointments/issues. GPs have no control or influence on hospital waiting times. It's much more powerful for the patient to phone and explain any change in circumstance and saves GP time for primary care problems.

▫️If patients are under the Community Mental Health Team and have ongoing concerns or crisis's about mental health, please contact the CMHT duty worker.

▫️Please try and use the service appropriately and equitably. Those taking up multiple appointments reduce access to others in need.

▫️Be polite to our team. Our team work hard with the resources given to us by the government. We recognise that sometimes capacity does not meet demand, and there is a limit to how many patients can be safely seen each day. Please be kind.

We would politely ask that patients respect the systems in place that allow safe and efficient care for ALL patients. Rude, aggressive behaviour, and threats will not be tolerated and are not acceptable for our receptionists to deal with on a daily basis.

Primary care is underfunded in the NHS and we are providing the best service possible with the resources given to us.

18/11/2025

🦠 Health experts are warning that the UK could face its most severe flu outbreak in decades this winter, driven by the H3N2 strain. 🦠

If your child is clinically at risk and missed having the flu vaccine at school, or you are clinically at risk, or 65 or over, please contact us to book an appointment. We still have a few vaccines left. 💉

12/11/2025

The surgery is closed this afternoon for training. If you need urgent care whilst we are closed, please ring 111 or go online at: https://111.nhs.uk/

We reopen at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.

22/10/2025

🦠 We still have appointments to have your flu vaccine here at the surgery. There is availability this Saturday morning, next week and into early November. 🦠

Please contact us and get your vaccine booked if you are eligible for a free NHS vaccine. 🙏🏼

09/10/2025

⚠️ There has been an accident on the A61 this morning, which has severely impacted traffic between Chesterfield and Sheffield. Some of our staff are stuck in long traffic queues and therefore we may be a bit late seeing you for early appointments. We are sorry for the inconvenience and ask for your patience. 😔

04/10/2025

First flu clinic done. Thank you to all the staff that gave up their Saturday morning, and to all patients who braved the weather. We delivered 800 vaccines in three hours. 🙏🏼 💨 🍁🍃💉

02/10/2025

In light of the highly publicised changes to General Practice, we would like to clarify that there has been no increase to GP practice funding in real terms. There are no more doctors to provide appointments and no more rooms if we had funds to have more. The additional funding that was received didn’t cover the increases in the minimum wage and national insurance.

We could liken ourselves to the sailors on the titanic trying to get passengers onto the lifeboats. There aren't enough, it's not our fault the boat (NHS) is sinking. We're trying our best to keep you safe.

What can you do to help 🙏🏼

▫️Self care for mild or self limiting illness.

▫️Use your local pharmacist or 111.

▫️Self refer to physio for muscular problems.

▫️Eye problems are best seen by your optician.

▫️If you already have an appointment booked with us please wait for that appointment to discuss ongoing issues.

▫️Use consultation time efficiently. Don’t waste time discussing problems you encounter in the NHS unless they are clinically relevant. We sympathise but often our hands are tied.

▫️Please phone hospitals directly about hospital appointments/issues. GPs have no control or influence on hospital waiting times. It's much more powerful for the patient to phone and explain any change in circumstance and saves GP time for primary care problems.

▫️If patients are under the Community Mental Health Team and have ongoing concerns or crisis's about mental health, please contact the CMHT duty worker.

▫️Please try and use the service appropriately and equitably. Those taking up multiple appointments reduce access to others in need.

▫️Be polite to our team. Our team work hard with the resources given to us by the government. We recognise that sometimes capacity does not meet demand, and there is a limit to how many patients can be safely seen each day. Please be kind.

01/10/2025

We are hearing that patients are interpreting from the mainstream media that they now have a right to book an appointment directly into our clinical systems. This is misleading.

The new contract change relates to the requirement for patients to be able to contact their GP practice online during core hours. This may be to request an appointment, or a fit note or other administrative reasons. The practice does not have to provide an appointment, it could provide advice or signposting, but they do have to provide a response within one working day.

Nothing is new for us. It is business as usual. We therefore ask patients to continue contacting us as normal. 🙏🏼

30/09/2025

There will be a lot of misinformation, political spin and contrasting opinions in the press in the next few days. We’re going to pop on a few posts to help explain and inform.

Our appointments 📆
We take requests for routine appointments via phone, in person, online, and via some apps. This has been the case for some time. We ask those with a routine request to contact us after 10am to allow those needing an urgent GP on the day appointment to get through quickly when we open.

We ask those needing an urgent on the day GP appointment to contact us early - as close to 8am as possible. This is to allow our clinicians to review the request and if necessary arrange for the patient to attend our ‘sit and wait’ urgent clinic.

All patients will be given the same care regardless of which method they contact the practice.
But we would prefer a phone call to the practice. We value the relationship we have with our patients as people, and pick up subtleties that may be lost in a form.

Please refer to our appointment page for more information. https://www.dronfieldhealth.co.uk/appointments

We sincerely hope that our patients can book both a GP and a haircut with relative ease.
👨🏻‍⚕️💇🏽‍♀️💇🏻👩🏼‍⚕️ We are doing the best we can with the £2.37 we get per patient per week.