Welcome to Mersea Road Surgery

Mersea Road doctors' Surgery in Colchester provides the highest quality healthcare to patients in the area. Our doctors, nurses and all our other staff are dedicated to offering a professional service and this surgery website will help us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.  We also have a surgery at 16 Creffield Road, Colchester CO3 3JA. Please note that parking is extremely limited in Creffield Road.  Please use the same telephone number to book appointments at either of our surgeries. Tel: 01206 517100 Option 3 for appointments.

It's Your Practice - a guide to GP Services

This is a document entitled 'It's your Practice' which gives a diverse range of useful information - from choosing and registering with a surgery and understanding the different services that are available, through to making appointments and getting the most from a consultation, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners.  Please click on the link - It's Your Practice

Dr Jonathan Gatland

The partners and staff are sad to announce the early retirement of Dr Gatland from Mersea Road Surgery.  He retired on 31^st December after 28 years of service with the surgery.  We are sure you will agree that he will be dearly missed from the team and join with us in wishing him a long and enjoyable retirement.

Dr Sharon Brayley joined us in January and has taken on Dr Gatland’s list of patients.

Mersea Road Surgery is moving to the old

Garrison Medical Centre

During the Autumn 2012 both Mersea Road Surgery and our branch surgery at 16 Creffield Road, will close and move to the old Garrison Medical Centre. The Garrison Medical Centre is currently undergoing a major refurbishment which will see it converted into 2 surgeries for us with approximately 11,000 patients and Portland Road with approximately 2,000 patients.  This represents a huge investment both on the part of the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and the Partners.  The aim is to provide excellent service for all our patients in a modern healthcare setting.

The decision to move has been made for several reasons including:-

- With limited access/space we are unable to expand the services we currently provide.  The new site will enable us to provide more services all from the one location.

- Neither of the current sites are compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act – wheelchair access is restricted and some of the clinical rooms are upstairs.

- Limited parking at Creffield Road often means patients encountering difficulties.

- With doctors spread across two sites it means Dr Brayley and Dr Roberts are only available at Mersea Road on their duty doctor days (emergency appointments only) and Dr Stacey, Dr Goel and Dr Kuppuswamy are not available for routine appointments at Creffield Road.  Having everyone on one site will provide us with far more flexibility and choice for patients.

- As part of the move other facilities, such as the telephone system, will also be upgraded – this should make it easier to get through on the telephone.

Your views and opinions are very important to us.  Please either complete the PCT feedback form (found in the waiting rooms and put it in the box provided), come along to the Patient Group meetings, and/or speak to the practice manager – Mrs Nicky Young.