Need Emergency Medical Care?
Call 999 Immediately
Signs of a heart attack, stroke, severe difficulty in breathing, heavy bleeding, severe injuries, seizure (fit) etc. require Emergency Medical Care.
We are working with the Berkshire West Primary Care Alliance as part of a Community Wellness Outreach Project to increase NHS health checks, we are using third party providers who will have access to aspects of patient data only where this would be relevant. All parties have completed a Data Protection Impact Assessments. If you have any questions, please get in touch with – RVA at 0118 3048841
Melrose Surgery will be trialling a new Triage system on MONDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER 2024.
We will be asking all patients to complete an online form via our website. The tab is on the front page of the website and is called “Accurx – The easiest way to consult”. It is not a very long form. Once submitted it will go to a team of people to be triaged and you will receive a response by 5.00 p.m. the same day, this could be a text message or a phone call.
There are some patients that will still be able to have an appointment booked but there is some criteria that you will need to meet.
We ask you to be patient with us as this is going to be new to us all.
Thank you for your co-operation.
From 1st of September 2024 the surgery will be offering RSV vaccines to eligible patients.
You’ll be able to get the vaccine if:
you’re aged 75 to 79.
you’re between 28 and 36 weeks pregnant – this will help protect your baby for the first few months after they’re born
If you’re aged 75 to 79, we will contact you about getting vaccinated. Please wait to be contacted.
Click here for more information about the Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – NHS
Mayor Glenn Dennis attended the grand opening of the new Melrose Surgery premises. Click here to know more.
We are changing the way we work. This is in response to the feedback we have been receiving from you, of late. We appreciate you have found it difficult to get through our phone lines, and to get appointments that you need to have your health issues addressed, timely.
To read about our new way of working, please click on the button below:
Eldon Road Surgery is relocating to new Premises at 2-4 Alexandra Road, Reading, RG1 5PE from the 5th August 2024. Eldon Road Surgery will cease to operate from Thursday 25th July 2024. We will continue to have Melrose Surgery at 73 London Road. Please clarify where your appointment is at the time of booking. We hope that this move will help us to serve you better.
All patients over the age of 75 are eligible for a Spring Covid Vaccination. You will have recieved a text message with a link to book an appointment. If you no longer have the link and would like to book an appointment for your Spring Covid Vaccination, please call the surgery.
Coming in for a diabetes review?
We need your weeee..
Please bring a urine sample or come with a full bladder as your checks aren’t complete without a urine sample being sent off for checking your kidneys! An early morning Urine sample is ideal but any wee will do.Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a potential complication of diabetes and screening for kidney disease is a routine part of your diabetes care. Why a Urine Test: One of the early signs of kidney damage is when the body leaks abnormal amounts of protein in the urine (microalbuminuria). A simple urine test known as ACR (Albumin creatinine ratio) can detect this and it’s important we pick it up early as there are medications available to slow the progress of the disease and needing dialysis in the future.
Type 2 diabetes causes the level of sugar in the blood to become too high. It’s a long-term condition that can affect your everyday life.
Planning a healthy pregnancy when you live with type 2 diabetes will help lower the risk of complications to you and your baby.
This is our new website. It is still in the stage of development. Please bear with us. We are trying to tailor it keeping our patients’ cohort and needs in mind and make it easy to use. It should help you do a lot of things independently.
Melrose Surgery has acquired a new building on Alexandra Road, a 5-10-minute walk from the existing site, to improve capacity and access. This building will add 12 more consulting rooms. The hope is that the new site will become operational from the 1st of August 2024. At the same time, the Eldon Road Branch, which is no longer fit for purpose, will seize to offer services. We are excited about the new site and hope it will not just improve patient experience but will allow us to offer more services to our patients.
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We organised a group consultation for patients suffering from menopausal symptoms (Hot flushes, night sweats, disturbed sleep, mood swings, lack of sex drive, vaginal dryness, etc.) on the 29th of January 2024. It was very well received. We had 23 participants, who were offered an educational session, a dietician session, and a yoga session. They were also given an insight into research. We received very positive feedback from the participants and, since the event, one fourth of the participations made an informed choice to go on hormone replacement therapy.
We look forward to organising many more group consultations, not just for menopause, but for many more conditions like diabetes, COPD, heart failure, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain, etc. and to your participation in these group consultations.