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To access these services, please check the links at the end of each article
Contact your surgeryAmber Valley Health provides the extended access service on behalf of the practices within ARCH PCN. Appointments are available at Church Farm, Steeple Drive Ripley – weekdays 6.00pm to 8.00pm and on a Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm.
We have a mixture of face to face and telephone appointments available. Appointments should be booked through your own practice – if you specifically want to arrange one of these appointments, please ask for an appointment at 'the hub'. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer a walk-in service and all appointments are pre-booked.
We can also offer appointments with a pharmacist for medication reviews and queries and also with a practice nurse for cervical screening. We hope in due course to be able to offer a wide range of other appointments including long term condition reviews, childhood immunisations, blood tests, ear syringing.
Extended access appointments are held at 'the hub' at Church Farm Primary Care Centre, Ripley. Sat nav postcode is DE5 3TH. All appointments are subject to availability.
If you are unable to attend an appointment at the hub, we ask that you cancel this by contacting your own local practice.
The home visiting team is a new service (started January 2022) offering a dedicated visiting service to housebound patients on behalf of the ARCH PCN practices.
The team consists of Community GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners and administrative support. We also have a Geriatrician working within the team. The visiting service conduct daily home visits on the behalf of the 9 practices for all housebound patients, assessing and treating – including liaising with community services where required.
The team also have an Adult Care Officer in the team offering proactive care and support with health and social care plans. This role is different to the acute visiting team, providing a holistic assessment and signposting/referrals to relevant support for frail patients.
The service runs Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.30pm and is accessed via your normal GP surgery.
We provide a First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) service in partnership with Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS). This is a team of advanced physiotherapists who can help diagnose and arrange initial treatment for musculoskeletal problems.
To find out more and access the service, visit our physio help page now.
Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs) provide a vital bridge between primary care and specialist mental health providers, providing holistic assessment, advice and brief interventions to patients with a range of needs. Mental health is a key area in need of support in Derbyshire. By hiring MHPs, we can begin to address this by helping our patients to have a say in their own mental health needs. Employing Mental Health practitioners ensures that patients get the specialist help and advice they may need, while also removing some of the strain put on GP appointments.
Here are some of the ways patients can benefit from visiting or talking to a MHP:
Some examples of the kind of issues our MHPs might work with include depression and other mood disorders, anxiety, relapse of previous mental health conditions, psychosis. Our clinical and reception staff will consider whether you require an appointment with an MHP or other practitioner in order to ensure your needs are appropriately met.
Amber Valley CVS provides social prescribing services for all GP practices in the ARCH primary care network. Our team of 4 social prescribing link workers take a holistic approach to wellbeing, meeting patients in their home and community and giving them time to focus on what matters most to them. Our team has welcomed a Children and Young People’s Social Prescribing Link Worker who will be supporting children aged 11-18.
To find out more and access the service, visit our social prescriber help page now.
The PCN Pharmacy team comprises of Clinical Pharmacists (some are Prescribing Pharmacists) and Pharmacy technicians.
To find out more and access the service, visit our pharmacist help page now.
A Health and Wellbeing Coach (HWBC) can support you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage your long-term health condition in a pro-active way. We will talk to you about your current lifestyle and discuss ways of making manageable long-term changes that will help to improve either your mental or physical health, or indeed both. You will take the lead on setting some meaningful goals, and we will support you to implement them by listening to what matters to you and empowering you to make lasting changes.
If you would like to speak to a Health and Wellbeing coach for support then please contact your doctors surgery. You won't need to speak to a doctor or nurse, you can ask to speak directly with the HWBC at your practice to arrange an appointment.
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