Home visits are recommended for cases involving:
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The terminally ill
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The housebound patient for whom travel to the surgery would cause deterioration in their medical condition
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Where home visiting makes clinical sense and is the best way of giving medical opinion
Try and phone between 8.30 and 11.00 am to request a home visit for that day
Home visits are not appropriate for:
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Heart attack or severe crushing chest pain – dial 999 and ask for an ambulance
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Minor illness, fevers, cold, cough, earache, headache, diarrhoea, vomiting, back pain