PRACTICE OVERVIEW

Shifa Surgery Ltd

KNOW YOUR PRACTICE

Shifa Surgery Ltd is a GP surgery based in the heart of Blackburn with Darwen.  It consists of a varying workforce of clinical staff including general practitioners, nurses, health care assistants, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and physician associates.  There is an administrative team management team as well as medical secretary, workflow team, senior office administrator and office administrators.

Shifa Surgery is part of Blackburn with Darwen North Primary Care Neighbourhood (BwD North PCN).

The practice provides both acute and long-term conditions appointments for our registered patient population.  To facilitate the legacy of competent clinicians, Shifa surgery, being an accredited training practice, supports a variety of trainees at the practice including doctors, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, physician associates.

Shifa Surgery is also involved in research studies in collaboration with various universities in the UK, to explore new ways of improving patient outcomes. 

In 2024, Shifa Surgery launched its Research Hub to be able to provide more insight into studies relevant to its patient population and help to make a difference in the lives through research.
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New Patient Online Registration Form

Registering at Shifa Surgery

You can register by completing the patient registration form online.  When you register, we will ask you to make an appointment to see the health care assistant, for a new patient health check. This will make sure that our records are accurate and all routine checks to promote your health and wellbeing such as blood pressure/smear tests/mammograms are up to date.

Once you have been accepted as a patient your medical records will be transferred to us.  You do not need to inform your existing practice that you are moving, although it may be courteous to do so.  

Medical records from your previous GP may not be immediately received therefore please be open at your consultation as the more information you provide, and we have recorded the easier it is to determine any medical issues that may arise in those first few weeks after registration.

Temporary Registrations

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days, you will need to register as a temporary patient, and this will be a short-term registration.  If you require a GP for more than 14 days and up to three months you will still need to register as a temporary patient.  This will allow you to be on the local practice list and you would continue to remain a patient of your permanent GP.  After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with the practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the practice.  Please note practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment.

You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.

Armed Forces Veteran Friendly GP Practice

We are officially accredited as an Armed Forces Veteran Friendly GP Practice!

Shifa Surgery is proud to be accredited as a veterans friendly practice by the Royal College of GPs.

Being accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners means that a practice can better identify and treat veterans, refer them, where appropriate, to dedicated NHS services (such as the Veterans’ Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison service (TILS), the Veterans’ Mental Health Complex Treatment Service (CTS) and the Veterans Trauma Network) and capture better data to improve future health provision.

It also means that the NHS is better able to meet the health commitments of the Armed Forces Covenant, which says the Armed Forces community, including veterans, should face no disadvantage in accessing health services and should receive priority care for military attributable conditions, subject to clinical need.

A veteran is someone who has served in the British Armed Forces (Regular or Reserve) for at least one day. Veterans also include any member of the Merchant Marine who has served in a war zone. This includes crew from convoys in World War 2 and more recently in the Falklands conflict and Gulf Wars.

Regardless of when you left the military, tell your GP that you’ve served in the UK Armed Forces. This will help your GP to better understand any military related health conditions that you may have and ensure that you are referred, where appropriate, to dedicated services for veterans

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Non English Speakers

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.

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