Out of Hours
For urgent medical assistance outside the normal office hours (when the surgery is closed) patients telephoning the emergency number 654646 will receive a recorded message. This message advises patients to contact the doctors' answering
service on 08444 06 8888 All calls will be answered by Shropdoc.
You may be given one of the following options:
- advised that a doctor will call you back
- given advice over the telephone
- asked to meet the doctor in a convenient place
- visited at home if necessary
Although all medical advice is given by qualified doctors, the doctor who deals with your problem may not be from this surgery. Please have paper and pen to hand, and if you are phoning from a public telephone, try to have at least 2 coins ready.
Call 999 in an emergency. Chest pains and / or shortness of breath constitute an emergency.