Welcome to

Briarwood Medical Centre

At Briarwood Medical Centre the staff take pride in offering the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. We offer a wide variety of medical services including the management of chronic diseases, antenatal and postnatal care, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.  In addition to everything you need to know about the practice you will also find a wealth of health-related information in the menu on the right hand side.  Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like.

Download the new NHS App for accessing your medical record online by clicking the links below:

Android: https://tinyurl.com/2fzszavf

iPhone & iPad: https://tinyurl.com/phf4hmer

The official NHS app is the fastest and the most feature-rich medical app that directly links to your medical record. You can order your medications, view your test results and check your consultation history. If you are a parent/guardian or carer, you can have your app linked to your children's/dependents medical records so you can manage their care too. Because it is developed by the NHS, it is also the most secure way to access your medical record online.

Accessing GP services

Briarwood Medical Centre is open and if you need to see a GP, please ring us on 01772 364999. We are open from 8.00am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday and 9.00am to 12noon on a Sunday.   You can also call NHS 111.  Appointments are being delivered face-to-face, online and over the telephone. If you are asked to come into the surgery for a face-to-face appointment, please remember to wear a face covering. Measures are in place to keep you safe from infection during your visit to the surgery.

Not all conditions need to be seen by our GP's in a face-to-face appointment. When contacting us, you will undergo an assessment (called triaging) of your needs.  If safe and appropriate to do so the clinician may undertake your consultation via telephone or through a video consultation.  Lots of common conditions can be diagnosed using mobile devices, telephone or video thanks to the experience of the clinicians and their ability to recognise the signs and symptoms of conditions from the information you provide. However, if they judge that it is safer and more appropriate to organise a face-to-face appointment for you then this will be arranged. 

If for a number of reasons, you aren’t able to have an appointment via video technology then your clinician will arrange an alternative option – either a phone call, or a face-to-face appointment for you.  Your community pharmacy can support you with a wide range of minor ailments.

We are the Greater Preston Network Group, a primary care network within Greater Preston. A Primary Care Network (PCN) is a group of surgeries working together to build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home. A new format for the access service is starting in October, creating appointments out of core hours, and on the weekends at a designated surgery on each day.   Please help us by completing the following survey:  https://forms.office.com/r/fYCgFYtjpz