The Circle Practice

There is a practice manager and 11 reception staff, who deal with registrations, patients' appointments, handling of medical records, repeat prescriptions and provide secretarial services to the individual doctors. Please note: the reception desk is closed for all routine purposes between 1.00 - 3.00pm hours daily.

Practice Nurses

We have two practice nurses, Fiona Corcoran and Fiona McCabe-Hughes, who are available to provide help and advice on a variety of health issues, including contraception, travel advice and travel vaccinations. They are specially trained to assist in the running of our asthma, diabetic, hypertension and immunisation clinics. Additionally, individual appointments with the practice nurses can be booked through reception.

Home Visits

Home visits are at the discretion of the doctors. If you are housebound or too ill to come to the surgery, please request the visit before 10.30am. If possible, children with temperatures or rashes are best seen in the surgery where equipment is available for tests. Inform the receptionist who will make sure your child is kept separate from other patients. Please telephone 020 8427 1213. We regret that we cannot make visits for social reasons, eg no transport.

Out-Of-Hours Services

The partners of the Circle Practice have joined a co-operative of Harrow doctors called HARMONI. This service is based at Northwick Park Hospital where you may be asked to take yourself/your family to see a local general practitioner. For those patients who are housebound or too ill to attend Northwick Park Surgery a visit will be arranged at the discretion of the HARMONI doctor. Full and clear instructions for the above service can be found on the message service when you telephone 020 8427 1213.

New Patient Registration

We like new patients to attend for a medical check-up with one of our practice nurses and an appointment for this purpose will be given on registration. It is also our policy to register all members of the family.

Other Staff And Services

There is a full complement of district nurses and health visitors. Community psychiatric nurses also attend on a regular basis. Community chiropody (also providing NHS treatment for certain groups of people) is available and may be booked at the enquiries desk. A dietician and speech therapist hold regular sessions. Our psychologist attends for one day a week. There is also a large treatment room with full-time nursing staff, providing shared services with the other practice in the centre.