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University Medical Centre
Students must register with a local GP if they want to have access to NHS treatment and consultation.
To register with a GP you must live within the ‘catchment area’ of that GP’s practice. You can register at the University-based Medical Centre or at a GP practice nearest to your home. The University GP is based at Maxwell:
Maxwell Health Centre, based in Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus
Students with Families in Matthias Court
If you wish to register your whole family with the same doctor, the nearest practices to Matthias are:
- Langworthy Road Medical Practice - (you can then be seen at Maxwell Health Centre on campus)
- Lower Broughton Health Centre, Great Clowes Street, Salford M7 1RD Telephone: 0161 839 2730
- Dr N Kassam & Partner 4-5 Mocha Parade Salford Lancashire M7 1QE Telephone: 0161 839 2721
Maxwell Health Centre
The Centre is sited within the Maxwell Building (Rooms 325 & 326) on the main Peel Park Campus. It is staffed by NHS General Practitioners, and trained Nurses. The Medical Centre offers a comprehensive range of health and counselling services. As many of these services are by appointment, it is always advisable to ring them first. Feel free to come in and pick up a HC1 or other forms from there even if you’re not registered with them.
Maxwell Health Centre is part of The Langworthy Road Medical Practice
Opening Hours
9.00am - 5.00pm, Monday to Friday during term time.
9.00am - 1.00pm, Monday to Friday during University holidays.
Appointments
If you need to see a Doctor, you can request an appointment. You will normally be offered the next available appointment. Call in to the Centre, or telephone on 0161 295 4209 or 0161 295 4287. If your request is urgent you should make this clear to the receptionist. Students can call in at any time to see a nurse. The nurse is normally available 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday during term time or 9.00am - 1.00pm during holidays.
Like all doctor-patient relationships, those between university doctors, university nurses and students are confidential.
Treatment when the centre is closed
If you need help in an emergency please contact the out of hour’s emergency number: 08444 778765. You will then be transferred to the Emergency Doctor.
Allerton Health Centre Relocation
The Health Centre at Allerton building has now relocated to new premises in Salford Precinct (close to Eddie Coleman and John Lester). More information about the services they provide can be found on the Clarendon Surgery website.
NHS Direct
If you need advice about a medical condition, you can ring the NHS direct medical helpline, 0845 4647. If you find it difficult to speak in English interpreters are available to help, ask for help by naming your own language or country. http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
Like all doctor-patient relationships, those between university doctors, university nurses and students are confidential.
Dentists and opticians
Students of the University who need either routine or emergency dental treatment or to access an optician should follow the link below
www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/serviceSearch.aspx
NHS charges
Students in full-time education under the age of 19 are exempt from most NHS charges, e.g. prescriptions. Other students may be entitled to help with charges on the grounds of low income. Further information is available from the NHS leaflet HC11 – "Help with Health Costs", which you can get from a main post office, Social Security office, or NHS hospital – or possibly your GP. The leaflet is also available on the web. (link www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/1558.aspx )
International students
Information on the entitlement of international students to free hospital treatment under the National Health Service is available on the Department of Health’s website and you are strongly advised to consult this. Another good source of information is Guidance Notes for Students on the UKCOSA website.
If you are on a full-time course of study lasting six months or more or on a course of any duration that is substantially funded by the UK Government, you are entitled to free hospital treatment in England. This entitlement extends to your spouse and children (under the age of 16, or 19 if in further education) if they are living permanently with you for the duration of your course.
Individual hospitals are responsible for deciding whether a patient is entitled to free treatment or not, in accordance with the relevant regulations. In order to establish entitlement, hospitals can ask you to provide documentation that supports your claim that you are studying in the UK. Examples of the sorts of documentation that might be provided are given on the Department of Health’s website.
If you are unsure whether you are entitled to free hospital treatment you should check with the Department of Health at:
Room 4W04b, Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7UE
Tel: 0113 2545819
Email: overseasvisitors@doh.gsi.gov.uk
If you are not exempt from hospital charges, or only partially exempt, you are strongly advised to take out appropriate private healthcare insurance for the length of your stay in the UK. For primary healthcare, you are advised to register with the university doctor or other local General Practitioner (GP).
Links
www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/Pages/serviceSearch.aspx
This page last updated 1 October 2009