Welcome to our Home page. We are a five doctor GMS general medical practice based in Hartlepool, a coastal town of 90,000 in Teesside, in North East of England. We operate from two NHS premises, Grange House Surgery and Brierton Medical Centre. This  web site is intended to be a source of information about the practice for patients with links to local and other medical www sites.

The practice is a member of Hartlepool PCT and the GP partners are Dr Alison Eaton, Dr Patrick Mc Gowan, Dr Rachel Roberts and Dr Iyad Al Mashharawi .  We have an additional salaried GP working in  the practice, Dr John Sinclair. We are committed to providing a high standard of medical care in a friendly caring atmosphere. We  are a training practice for GP Registrars as part of the Tees Valley Vocational Training Scheme and teach medical students from the University of Newcastle. We are interested in quality, audit and in the development of the use of computers in General Practice.

New Patients

Our practice list is open and we are accepting new patients. If you live within our practice area and wish to join our practice list, please phone or come along to the surgery for further information. You will be asked to attend a new patient check with our practice nurse and your general health will be assessed from basic checks such as, weight, blood pressure, urine and current medication.

We can only provide medical assistance to patients registered with us under the National Health Service and would in all cases suggest you contact your usual doctor if you need to discuss your medical condition.

Extended hours GP appointments at Brierton Medical Centre, Hartlepool

From July 2008, we will be offering a Saturday morning extended hours GP surgery at Brierton Medical Centre. This surgery is for pre-booked appointments only and is open to all patients registered with our practice.

Please ask at reception during the week if you require one of these special GP appointment slots.

Emergency and ‘on the day’ medical care at the weekends will continue to be handled by the Primecare Out-of-hours service.

Click here for more information about the new Brierton GP extended hours service

Out of Hours Health Services

Hartlepool PCT is responsible for providing out of hours care. For urgent medical help when your GP surgery is closed 6 pm - 8 am, Monday to Thursday, and 6 pm Friday to 8 am Monday and throughout Bank Holidays call Primecare on 0845 603 3131. You can also contact NHS Direct for advice

Email

At present this web site is not maintained from the surgery, so no attempt should be made to contact the staff or doctors  for medical purposes through email as we do not have the facilities to reply on a daily basis. This is not an on-line medical advice service.

New Surgery Premises

Work started in February 2008 on a new multi-million pound Hartlepool Community Health Centre, which is being developed as a LIFT project by Hartlepool PCT in the centre of town. It is hoped that the town centre development will expand the range of health services available for patients.

In March 2010 we will be closing the Grange House Surgery site and moving into the new Park Road primary care centre. We will continue to work from the Brierton Medical Centre Site.

Click on the links below for more details

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Work-under-way-on-19m.3756126.jp

Hartlepool Community Health Centre Plans (pdf)

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