
Minor ailments
For example: coughs and colds, hay fever, headaches, thrush, warts and verrucas. You can obtain medication for minor ailments such as these from your local pharmacist.
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To make contact with a doctor, use AskmyGP – the fast and easy way to ask for help of any kind. This service is available to all our registered patients. We respond during working hours Monday to Friday, usually within an hour (after 5pm you may hear from us the next day). You can select a telephone, email or video call response. We encourage everyone who has access to a computer, smart phone or tablet to use askmyGP. Please click on the logo opposite to contact us via AskmyGP.
We are happy to tell you that our practice will be moving to a new site by the end of summer 2022.
We will be sharing space with Dalkeith Road Medical Practice in a new development within Salisbury Court on St Leonards St. Our new home will give us more space and better facilities.
Please bear with us while we finalise all the contracts. We will let you know more as soon as we can.
Practice hours are as usual until Thursday 14th April 2022 at 6pm. The practice will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday and we will open from Tuesday 19th April 2022 at 8am.
Please remember to order your repeat prescriptions in sufficient time.
For the latest information regarding Coronavirus, including how to arrange a test or vaccine please visit NHS Inform or call 0800 028 2816.
Need help in a hurry? NHS 24 can help. NHS 24 operates an out-of-hours phone service, providing help if the surgery is closed and you are too ill to wait until it re-opens. Call 111 any time, day or night.
Further speedy advice can be available from NHS Inform, the organisation which provides a single source of quality assured health information for the public in Scotland. NHS Inform’s self-help guides allow you to check your symptoms online, get advice to manage your condition, and can signpost you to the right service.
Boroughloch Medical Practice provides a wide range of advice on treatments and health care. But did you know that there are a lot of other expert health services that you can access without seeing your GP first?
We are unable to issue Covid Vaccination Exempton Certificates. Find out more.
Please note that the Practice does not provide mask exemption cards. However, helpful information about face coverings is available from the Scottish Government website.
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