You can access some local services without speaking to your GP. This is called self referral. Use the links below to self-refer to different local services.
- Weight management
- Provide physiotherapy service
- Maternity services
- Stop smoking service
- Continence advisory service (adults)
- Minor eye conditions service (MECS)
- Essex Wellbeing Service – support for carers
- Essex sexual health services
- Mental health crisis
- Children’s and Adolescent’s Mental Health Service (SET-CAMHS)
- Mid Essex talking therapies (IAPT)
We are not an emergency service. Call 999 or go to A & E if you have severe or life-threatening symptoms. The nearest A & Es are at either at Colchester or Broomfield Hospitals.
We are not a “Walk-in Centre”. If you feel that you cannot wait for a surgery appointment, please go to Colchester General Hospital.
For help with minor illnesses, you can visit your local pharmacist, or you can call NHS 111. Most sore throats, coughs, colds, earaches and upset stomachs will get better on their own. You do not need a doctors appointment for most minor illnesses.
Find out how to get help from a pharmacy
For Nurse, Health Care Assistant, or Phlebotomy Appointments
Call us on 01376 561242, Monday to Friday during opening hours 8am to 6:30pm
GP Appointments
Not every request will require a GP appointment. Your request will be assessed (triaged) by a clinician.
Please provide detailed information and attach photos if relevant—this helps us to prioritise based on clinical need.
If you submit your request after 5pm we may not reply until the next working day.
- Complete this form to request a GP appointment
- Call us on 01376 561242 if you’re unable to complete the online form and one of our reception team will assist you.
Read more about managing your health online.
Read more information about referrals.
Your appointment
However you choose to contact us we may offer you a consultation:
- by phone
- face to face at the surgery
- on a video call
- by text or email.
Appointments by phone, video call or by text or email can be more flexible and often means the doctor or nurse can help you sooner.
We cannot provide a 10 minute face-to-face appointment for everyone who would like one. We need you to help us by asking for a face-to-face appointment only if it is necessary. Our GPs offer telephone appointments which are often more convenient for patients.
To cancel your appointment:
- phone us on 01376 561242, Monday to Friday, when we are open
- visit the surgery and speak with a receptionist, Monday to Friday, when we are open
- email the practice on coggeshallsurgery@nhs.net
GP Access appointments are available on Wednesday evening for patients who cannot come to the surgery when during our normal opening hours.
Please not that all extended access appointments are by phone.
If you need medical help now, use NHS 111 online or call 111.NHS 111 online is for people aged 5 and over. Call 111 if you need help for a child under 5.
Call 999 in a medical or mental health emergency. This is when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.
Please tell us:
- If there’s a specific doctor, nurse or other health professional you would prefer to respond.
- If you would prefer to consult with the doctor or nurse by phone, face-to-face, by video call or by text or email.
- If you need an interpreter.
- If you have any other access or communication needs.
If you are housebound and need an appointment, we will do a home visit. We will phone you first to understand what you need. To request a home visit, it’s helpful if you phone the practice as soon after 8am as possible on 01376 561242.