Distington Surgery

10/06/2026

Unfortunately our clinical team remain short staffed today - if you have a non urgent medical query please consider contacting the practice at a later date to allow the staff on duty today to be able to see our patients with urgent medical needs.

09/06/2026

Due to illness our clinical team is very short staffed today and we are only able to deal with urgent medical queries.

If you have a non urgent medical query please consider contacting the practice later in the week.

28/05/2026

Our team in the dispensary are under pressure due to staffing today and are also unfortunately without a member of staff to do deliveries.

Please can we ask patients
* Urgent queries and requests only to the dispensary today
* Please allow time for your medication request to be processed before arriving to collect (at least 3 working days)
* If you are expecting a delivery the team should have been in touch to discuss this with you - If you have a query regarding a delivery please contact the team on 01946 833 155

15/05/2026

Unfortunately again today (Friday 15th May) our team in the dispensary are down to just two members of staff.

Please could we ask patients to be mindful of this and only to attend attend/contact the dispensary today if urgent.

14/05/2026

From 17:00pm - 18:00pm today (14/05/26) our dispensary has only one member of staff on duty - please could we ask patients to bear with us during this time and only attend/contact the dispensary if urgent.

07/05/2026

We are aware that a number of our patients have currently attended or are due to attend a lung health check - Please note that following your appointment the practice will receive a letter from lung screening and we will then make contact with patients directly to arrange any further action required.

We would ask patients to please wait for this contact to take place.

05/05/2026

https://uk.indeed.com/job/medical-receptionist-51fc7790afd171c4

We are looking to add to our team and have a receptionist role vacancy for 20hrs per week (plus cover)

For more details and to apply please see our advert below on indeed.

Closing date 15/05/26

Distington Surgery

01/05/2026

Due to very limited staffing within our clinical team we ask for urgent medical queries only today.

16/04/2026

Should you need a home visit please can we ask you contact the surgery as early in the day as possible (before 11am)

15/04/2026

We are hiring! We currently have a vacancy in our Salaried GP Role, 8 Sessions available.