Patient Newsletter: Spring 2023

Lakeside Healthcare is a Partnership of practices, owned and operated by GP Partners to deliver the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northants, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. With more than 500 employees, a Research Team and established education and training, we are committed to delivering a quality service to our patients and communities.

 

Here's a snapshot of our monthly workload

  • 20,793 total appointments
  • 11,072 telephone calls handled
  • + clinics + home visits + immunisations + care homes + extended access
  • Also 623 patients did not attend their scheduled appointment.

If you need to cancel please let us know by calling 01536 748252 and leaving a message.

Figures apply to period 23/1 to 19/2/23 

 

More About Doctrin

There’s lots of reasons to try Doctrin which gets great patient ratings and feedback. Visit our website for more information on how to use it. Simply click on the Doctrin wording in the top right corner of the homepage.  

It allows patients to seek advice for:  

  • Non urgent medical conditions  
  • Medicine/prescription queries  
  • Healthcare and self care advice  

Features:  

  • Easy to use  
  • Detailed questionnaires  
  • Saves waiting in a telephone queue  
  • Can be easily accessed from mobile devices  
  • Open during surgery hours  
  • Triage to most appropriate team member  
  • Very popular with patients  
  • Attracts great feedback ratings.  

Since we launched the platform our team has delivered over 35,000 Doctrin consultations for patients aged from newborn to 91 years old!  

Here’s how users rate it:  

  • 90.8% were met with compassion  
  • 87.6% would recommend the platform  
  • 75.3% received sufficient information  

Find out more about Doctrin

 

Research Team news

Lakeside Healthcare's award-winning research team works on a range of short and long term research projects covering a range of conditions and ages.

To find out more about their current work or get involved in future projects please visit Research @ Lakeside

 

Other News

Lakeside Chair awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of GPs

More than ever attend latest HOST event for rough sleepers

 

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Patient Access Survey

There’s still time to take part in our Patient Access Survey

Just a friendly reminder that we are running a survey to gauge your experience of accessing our services. is a Partnership-wide initiative, which will help us understand your experiences at your practice, as well as capturing cross-site trends.

Please take part in our Patient Access Survey.  

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