OTHER SERVICES
MEDICAL
EMERGENCIES
Dial 999 for an ambulance. This is particularly important if you think that you,
or someone else, may be having a heart attack. The symptoms of heart attack which
should make you dial 999 are severe, crushing pain in the centre of the chest
or right across the chest, which does not change with breathing or with position
and which lasts 15 minutes or longer. You may feel sick or sweaty and clammy
with it and the pain may spread into one or both arms.
ACCESS
Both surgeries are accommodated entirely on the ground floor. There is a wheelchair
ramp at Macklin Street Surgery as well as limited car parking which includes
a disabled parking bay.
OUT
OF HOURS
If you have an urgent medical problem out of surgery hours, the phone number
is still the same. You will be put in touch with the out-of-hours surgery on
Duffield Road. The out-of-hours service is run by Derbyshire Health United. Please
remember that this service is for urgent problems only.
NHS Direct (telephone: 0845 4647)
NHS Direct is a 24-hour nurse-led helpline which can offer a wide range of advice
about a wide variety of issues from advice about illnesses to advice about stopping
smoking.
Interpreters
The doctors and nurses speak English. Please ask a receptionist if you need an
interpreter.
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