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e-consult How it Works and Frequently Asked Questions

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Welcome to The Limes Medical Centre

The Limes Medical Centre is a purpose-built premises in Trinity Square which will function as a health centre for the 21st century. The premises are equipped with rooms to provide additional services to patients and include a modern treatment suite.

With patients' needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been designed to make it easy for you to gain instant access to the information you need. As well as specific practice details such as opening hours and how to register, you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations.

Extended Hours

This practice supports the extended access scheme for the Margate PCN. (The Margate Hub are The Bethesda Medical Centre, Northdown Surgery, Mocketts Wood Surgery and The Limes Medical Centre) Appointments are available in the surgeries 16:00-20:00 and can be made by contacting your reception team at the Surgery you are registered with. The Limes Medical Centre operates Monday and Thursday until 20:00 and Bethesda Medical Centre operates Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday until 20:00.

We may also be able to offer appointments on Saturday at the QEQM Hospital with the ART team.

These appointments may not be with your own doctor but with your consent the clinician will have access to your electronic medical records.

Please book through the Limes Reception Team.

Get Well, Keep Well

Of course we’re not just here for when you are unwell. Our team of healthcare professionals and back-up staff offer a number of clinics and services to promote good health and well-being whatever your medical condition.

We hope you enjoy having a look around the site and familiarising yourself with some of the online features such as ordering a repeat prescription. Whatever your thoughts, be sure to let us know via our feedback function. Comments and suggestions are always a great way of helping us continue to enhance the way we look after you.

Practice Boundary

Please note that we only accept patients in our practice boundary- please click on link below

Practice Boundary

Named Accountable GP

From the 1^st of April 2015, the practice is required under the terms of the latest GP contract to allocate all patients a named accountable GP.

All our patients are registered under The Limes Medical Centre as a pooled list. For convenience your named accountable GP will be your named usual GP.

If you wish to be told the name of your accountable/usual GP, please ask the receptionists when you are next in the surgery

Please note: there is no need to telephone the practice for this information.

Having a named/usual GP does not prevent you seeing any other doctor in the Practice. Your named/usual GP will not be available at all times and if your needs are urgent, you may need to discuss them with an alternative doctor.

CQC- We were inspected 26/7/2022 We were rated as GOOD to view our report follow the link below

The Limes Medical Centre - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)

Patient Participation Group- PPG

Benefits of a Patient Participation Group:

PPGs are about implementing real, positive change in their communities. Patients have long valued the relationship with their GP and general practice. However the dynamics of this relationship have changed over recent years – patients today rightly want more say in their own healthcare, they are better informed and expect to be treated as whole people, not just as a condition or ailment.

PPGs have an increasingly important role to play in helping to give patients a say in the way services are delivered to best meet their needs, and the needs of the local community.

PPGs can help GPs to develop an equal partnership with their patients. They can help them to communicate accurately and honestly with individual patients, and with the wider community about key health matters. They can also help to reduce costs and improve services by identifying changes that the practice may not have considered, allowing resources to be used more efficiently. What is more, they can develop mutually supportive networks for patients and the practice, outside of individual appointments.

If you would like to join the PPG please write to the Practice Manager or complete the attached form and return to the surgery.

Patient Participation Group Information

Please click on the link for the Patient Participation Group Meeting Minutes

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