Welcome to Whitley Road Medical Centre

The doctors and staff at Whitley Road Medical Centre in Manchester are proud to offer the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare.  We run many clinics for the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

We welcome all new patients to the practice and do not discriminate against patients on the grounds of age, race, religion or sexual orientation.

If you wish to register with the practice and you live within our practice area, please bring your previous medical card or alternatively bring in two forms of identification and complete a new patient registration form at reception.

New patients are invited to complete a questionnaire about health and lifestyle.

In addition to everything you need to know about the practice you will also find a wealth of health-related information in the menu at the bottom of the page. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like.

CORONA VIRUS INFORMATION

If you have travelled from Wuhan or Hubei Province in China, other countries are being identified on an going basis, (please see link below) to the UK in the last 14 days you should immediately:

• stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu
• call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the area

Please follow this advice even if you do not have symptoms of the virus:

• Do not go to work, school or public areas
• Avoid visitors in your home
• Avoid using public transport or taxi

Travellers from other parts of China and other specified areas

This advice applies to travellers who have returned to the UK from the following areas:

• China
• Thailand
• Japan
• Republic of Korea
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• Singapore
• Malaysia
• Macau

If you have returned to the UK from any of these areas in the last 14 days and develop symptoms of cough or fever or shortness of breath, you should immediately:

• stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu
• call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the country

Symptoms to look out for:

• Cough
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Fever
• Difficulty breathing

If you are concerned that you may have been exposed or feel you have become infected with the novel coronavirus and feel unwell with breathing problems and have a fever:

Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with other flu viruses; and call NHS 111 to inform them of your symptoms

For further information:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIheXdxK7J5wIVhbHtCh3vGAH4EAAYASAAEgImZfD_BwE#advice-for-travellers

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-specified-countries-and-areas/covid-19-specified-countries-and-areas-with-implications-for-returning-travellers-or-visitors-arriving-in-the-uk