About Us

The Weymouth Bay Medical Practice provides comprehensive NHS primary care services across three sites, Royal Crescent Surgery, Preston Road Surgery and Dorchester Road Surgery. 

Mission Statement

We are a family-friendly practice providing outstanding, patient-centered care for our community.

Vision

Leading our community to a happier, healthier future.

We are located in the seaside town of Weymouth on the south coast of England. We aim to offer a friendly, approachable, and professional service in each of our fully equipped, well managed surgeries. We have a dedicated team of healthcare professionals who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care. 

With patients' needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been created to make it easy for you to gain access to the information you need. As well as our practice details such as opening hours, how to register and staff information, you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations. We hope you find our website informative and helpful.

Registration

We are open to new NHS patients and would like you to join our surgery. If you live within our practice area please go to our registration page for more information on how you can become a patient at our surgery.

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Accessibility Needs

We want to get better at communicating with our patients and ensure you can read and understand the information we send you.

If you find it hard to read our letters or if you need someone to support you at appointments, please complete our Accessibility Needs Form below.

 Accessibility

 Disability Access

 Accessibility Needs Form

Meet our Team

We are a partnership of GPs, Nursing Staff, a Healthcare Team, and Practice Staff.

SEE OUR TEAMS PAGE

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See Our Reviews

We encourage our patients to let us know about their positive experiences at our practice. If you'd like to leave a review, please do so on the NHS website

You can see what other patients have said about us here

Alternatively, if you've had a bad experience we'd also like to know. Please contact us and let us know how we can improve.

Practice Information

Parking

There is parking available for patients visiting the practice with designated disabled bays.

Please park carefully and avoid blocking access. The surgery claims no responsibility for any damages whilst parking in our carparks.

Royal Crescent Surgery

  • There are steps to reception at Crescent Street which is on the first floor. A lift is also available. 
  • There is a self-check-in screen at reception allowing you to mark yourself arrived for your appointment. There are 3 waiting areas, and the check in screen will direct you to the correct waiting area for your appointment.
  • All waiting areas and clinical rooms are on one level on the first floor. Patient toilets are available along with a disabled toilet.
  • Parking is available for patients visiting the practice with designated disabled bays. Please park carefully and avoid blocking access. The surgery claims no responsibility for any damages whilst parking in our carpark.
  • A wheelchair is available for your use. If you have any access problems, please discuss with reception and we will do our best to help.
  • Outdoor cycle racks are available for use. No dogs are allowed inside the building apart from guide dogs or assistance dogs. 

Preston Road Surgery

  • Reception and all patient areas at Preston Road Surgery are on the ground floor. There is a self-check-in screen at reception allowing you to mark yourself arrived for your appointment.  
  • Patient toilets are available along with a disabled toilet.
  • Parking is available for patients visiting the practice at the back of the surgery with designated disabled bays. Please park carefully and avoid blocking access. The surgery claims no responsibility for any damages whilst parking in our carpark.
  • A wheelchair is available for your use. If you have any access problems, please discuss with reception and we will do our best to help.
  • Outdoor cycle racks are available for use. No dogs are allowed inside the building apart from guide dogs or assistance dogs. 

Dorchester Road Surgery

  • Reception is based on the ground floor along with consulting rooms and patient toilets including a disabled toilet. There is a self-check-in screen at reception allowing you to mark yourself arrived for your appointment.
  • A lift is available to the first floor with further consulting rooms and a disabled toilet.
  • There are a few steps from the car park into the surgery. There is disabled access without steps from the front of the building on Dorchester Road.
  • Parking is available for patients visiting the practice at the back of the surgery with designated disabled bays. Please park carefully and avoid blocking access. The surgery claims no responsibility for any damages whilst parking in our car park.
  • If you have any access problems, please discuss with the receptionists and we will do our best to help.

Access

There are steps to reception at Crescent Street which is on the first floor, or a lift is available.

A wheelchair is available for your use. If you have any access problems, please discuss with the  reception and we will do our best to help.

Outdoor cycle racks are available for use. No dogs are allowed inside the building apart from guide dogs or assistance dogs. Reception and all patient areas at Preston Road Surgery are on the ground floor.

Patient Group

Royal Crescent and Preston Road Practice have an active patient participation group, who play a part in shaping roles and services within the surgery. We are always seeking new members to have a say in what we do.

For further information please visit our PPG page.

Training Practice

We are a dedicated and established teaching practice and have been taking trainee GPs for over 30 years. We like to have a trainee in post throughout the year as we believe it improves the quality of care we deliver. Learning and teaching is a two way process and the trainees help to keep us all up to date.

GP Registrars / ST3 Doctors

They are in their 3rd year of a 3 year GP Speciality Training Programme.

Our Registrars are fully qualified Doctors, in specialist GP training post and have at least 4 years of hospital experience. Registrars are attached to our practice for 12 months and patients find their fresh, enthusiastic approach adds to the health care we provide.

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Registrars are seen very much as a part of the practice team and are accepted very well by staff and patients alike.

When booking an appointment you may be offered an appointment with our Registrar. We hope you will find this acceptable but there is no obligation to agree.

Part of the training and successful completion of their course involves videoing their consultations. These videos are only viewed by other Doctors and are then destroyed. You will always be informed in advance if a Doctor wishes to videotape a consultation and asked to give consent in writing. At the end of the consultation the Doctor will again ask if you are happy for the recording to be kept - if not it will be erased immediately.

From time-to-time our Registrars also do "joint surgeries" with one of the GP trainers. You will always be informed of this and can say if you want to see the Doctor alone.

ST2 Doctors

These are Doctors in their 2nd year of a GP Speciality Training Programme and have at least 3 years hospital experience.

ST1 Doctors

These are doctors who are in their 1st year of the 3 year GP Speciality Training Programme, and have at least 2 years of hospital experience. Their training is managed at our practice much like GP Registrars.

F2 foundation year Doctors

These are doctors who have 1 hospital experience. They come to our practice for 4 months to learn the differences between General Practice and Hospital Specialities. They are not on GP training programmes but many of them eventually apply to do so.

Medical Students

We also have medical students with us for periods of 2-3 weeks. These are from Southampton or some of the London medical schools. We feel it is important to let them see a wide range of general practice and hope that if you are asked you will be happy if a student is sitting in on your consultation. If, however, you prefer to see the doctor alone please mention this.

GP Patient Survey

The GP Patient Survey is an independent survey run by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England. The survey is sent out to over two million people across England. The results show how people feel about their GP practice. 

SEE OUR RESULTS

Our overall CQC Rating was:  OUTSTANDING

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) makes sure hospitals, care homes, dental and GP surgeries, and all other care services in England provide people with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care and encourages them to make improvements where possible.

SEE THE FULL REPORT