Welcome to Kirkhall Surgery
Kirkhall Doctors' Surgery in Prestwick provides the highest quality healthcare to patients in the Ayrshire area. Our doctors, nurses and all our other staff are dedicated to offering a professional service and this surgery website will help us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.
As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff and the services we provide, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like. We can use your ideas to improve our online services and further develop the content of this site.
New measures to support GP Practice pressures
GP Demand
SURGERY OPENING TIMES
Monday 08.00* - 17.30 (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Tuesday 08.00* - 17.30 (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Wednesday 08.00* - 17.30
Thursday 08.00* - 17.30 (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Friday 08.00* - 17.30 (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
*Telephone lines will be open for URGENT HOUSE CALLS ONLY between 08:00 - 08:30 and 12:45 - 13:30
PRESCRIPTION ORDERING
Medicines are not in short supply, only order the medicines that you need from your GP practice.
Please use this GP Practice website or telephone prescription ordering service to order your medicines.
Please do not come to the Surgery to order your prescription
When ordering tell the practice which pharmacy you want to collect your medicine from, and the prescription will be sent there.
Pharmacies are extremely busy, please allow FIVE days from ordering your medicine to collection from the Community Pharmacy.
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Vaccination Status
Please see below the link to the Scottish Government website for information on how patients can now access their vaccination status without the need to contact their GP Practice.
https://www.gov.scot/news/covid-19-vaccination-status-scheme-launches/
Patients will be able to access their Covid-19 Vaccination status online by logging on to www.nhsinform.scot/covid19status
For those patients unable to access the information online they can call the freephone COVID status helpline to request their vaccination status which will be sent to them in the post. The Freephone number is 0808 196 8565.
Facemask Exemption Information for Travel
Please do not contact your GP Practice to ask for face covering exemption letters as this is not something that your GP can provide.
As per Scottish Government guidelines exemption certifications are not required, however, should you need this for travel purposes for any Airline you can request a free face covering exemption card by phoning 0800 121 6240 or through the NHS Scotland exemption card website. http://exempt.scot/
A&E Arrangements
New A&E arrangements are now in place, please see the attached link for any patient who thinks they may need to attend the A&E Department.
Urgent Care Poster
(Site updated 14/09/2021)