Home visits are recommended for cases involving:
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The terminally ill
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The housebound patient for whom travel to the surgery by car would cause deterioration in their medical condition.
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Where home visiting makes clinical sense and is the best way of giving medical opinion.
Phone between 8.30 and 11.00 am to book home visit for that day.
Home visits may be made:
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Following a conversation with a health professional it may be agreed that a seriously ill patient may be helped by a GP’s visit at home.
Home visits are not appropriate for:
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Heart attack or severe crushing chest pain – dial 999 and ask for an ambulance.
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Fevers, cold, cough, earache, headache, diarrhea, vomiting, back pain.