Welcome to Bourtreehill Medical Practice

Welcome to our site. Below you’ll find some new and other relevant information about services under “Stop Press”. For those looking for some self help information on common health problems the following links provide detail we do not have room for. NHS Choices is the main English site; for a more local flavour NHS24 is also available. These sites may help you to be better informed about a problem, although we do not have responsibility for their content.

STOP PRESS (1) FLU JAB SEASON… IS NOT OVER! We are still taking bookings and still have vaccine for weekday nurse appointments for patients of the practice who are over 65 or in one of the “at risk” groups, that is those patients with diabetes, or with chronic heart, lung, liver or kidney ailments. Also, if you are pregnant or become pregnant between now and March 2012, you are strongly advised to have the seasonal flu vaccine if you have not already had the jab since October 2011. More advice is available from your midwife, but pregnant women registered with us may also book a routine appointment with the Practice Nurse NOW for the jab.

STOP PRESS (2) ALL PATIENTS! Please update your telephone numbers via “Contact Us” on the top menu of this page, even if you think we already have them. There are now slots for “HOME”, “WORK” or “MOBILE” numbers so we will know what the new number is for. Accurate records mean better services for ALL. Thank you.

STOP PRESS (3) Automated Check In Terminal Now in Operation. Patients arriving at the surgery with booked appointments, please check in simply and easily at our touch screen terminal; no need to go to reception unless you have other business in which case please use the terminal first so you are checked in, and then go to reception. Clear instructions are shown, and assistance is available if needed. On arrival in the health centre, turn to the right and then immediately left around the end of the blue screen. Signs are posted.

STOP PRESS (4) Our “Contact Us” section is at the right hand end of the top menu bar on this page. In addition to the other links to get in touch with us that are around the site, this section allows you to tell us about a CHANGE OF ADDRESS (to a new address WITHIN the practice area) a CHANGE OF TELEPHONE NUMBER, or even to CANCEL AN EXISTING APPOINTMENT. Please read the instructions carefully! …And don’t forget you can order ordinary repeat prescriptions from the site. Just click "Prescribing" from the top menu above.

Situated on the Eastern outskirts of the light industrial town of Irvine in Ayrshire, Bourtreehill is a 7 GP partner medical practice which is consistently achieving high quality standards within its contract with NHS Ayrshire and Arran. The practice is accredited by the NHS Education West of Scotland Region as a Training Practice. It provides essential, additional and enhanced services, along with a range of other doctors' surgery services including acupuncture and "GP with Special Interest" dermatology to a typically representative and predominantly younger population.

Resident in a purpose built health centre in the community they serve, the GP Doctors purchased the premises from the Ayrshire and Arran Primary Care NHS Trust in December 2002. A full refurbishment and 34% expansion of the premises was conducted in 2003. Within the Centre the GPs provide accommodation for and work in cooperation with Community Nurses and Health Professionals, as well as their own Practice Nurses and administrative support.

Our website gives details of our doctors and services, a range of information from our current issue leaflet, and practice news. For patients, it shows how to use the facilities and help the clinicians and staff to everyone's benefit. If you are not a patient or a prospective patient, you should of course consult your own doctor for your needs, but welcome anyway.

Choose from the menu options at the top of the page to start browsing the site.