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Would you be interested in joining our team? 

Measham Medical Unit is a friendly, well-established and supportive GP practice based on the outskirts of North West Leicestershire, providing services to patient in North West Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Warwickshire we have 16000 patients registered with us.

We have an exciting opportunity in our busy reception team on a part-time basis. We are looking for someone for 23.5 hours per week. This is a varied and demanding role providing services to patients at first point of contact with the practice, supporting the clinicians as well as the wider practice team. This is a role that continues to develop and is essential to the practice. The role involves dealing with patients over the phone and in person as well as associated administration.

We are looking for candidates ideally with previous experience of working at a GP surgery in a reception setting and ideally used SystmOne IT system. The candidate will need to be flexible, empathetic and have great communication and IT skills.

23.5hrs per week , Mon 8am -5pm (1/2hr unpaid lunch) Tues 7.30am – 1pm, Friday 8am – 6pm (1/2hr unpaid lunch)

Pay: £12.71 per hour, dependent on experience

Location: Measham Medical Unit

Benefits: Company Pension, Uniform, On-site parking, sick pay

If you are interested in this role please send a covering letter and a CV to:

Tracy Parker, Office Manager, Measham Medical Unit, High Street, Measham DE12 7HR or email your covering letter and CV to tracy.parker2@nhs.net

Closing date for applications is Thursday 8th October 2026.

Thank you to all the patients that attend their appointments each week. Unfortunately in February, there were 159 appointments that patients did not attend - that is 38 hours and 51 minutes of clinical time wasted

If you need to cancel or reschedule your appointment:
 - For appointments booked via rapid health, reschedule or cancel your appointment from your confirmation email
- Call us on 01530 270667 to cancel or reschedule your appointment

- Email us on at measham.doctors@nhs.net
- Submit an admin request via RapidHealth

Reminder texts are sent out 48 hours prior to pre-booked appointments.

Thank you to all those that provided feedback to our friends and family questionnaire.  This is based on your last face to face visit or telephone conversation with a member of the team at Measham Medical Unit in February 2026. 

Out of the 509 responses we received, 473 (92.93%)  were graded as Very Good or Good.  We will continue to publish this data monthly and 6 monthly. 

Thank you.

The surgery closes each day at 6pm, DHU (Derbyshire Health United) then provide telephone cover from 6pm-6.30pm Monday to Friday. If you require medical assistance between 6.00-6.30pm Monday to Friday please call 0300 323 0671. After 6.30, please call 111 or follow the information below

Where to get help when we are closed 

Pharmacy first – your local pharmacist can offer help and advice on a range of conditions. They can also offer prescriptions for the following conditions:

We have 2 late night pharmacies in the local area.

Ashby Pharmacy

17 The Green

Ashby De La Zouch

Leicestershire

LE65 1JU

01530 411222

Open 9 am to 9pm Monday to Saturday

Tesco Pharmacy

Resolution Road

Ashby De La Zouch

Leicestershire

LE65 1TE

0121 5191392

Open 9am to 9pm Monday – Saturday, 10am-4pm Sunday

NHS 111 – helpline open 24 hours a day 7 days a week

Local Urgent Care /Walk in Centres.

Loughborough NHS Urgent Treatment Centre
Loughborough Hospital
Hospital Way
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 5JY

01509 568800 

Open 24 hours a day 7 days a week

Swadlincote Urgent Care Centre

Civic Way
Swadlincote
Derbyshire
DE11 0AE

01283 818000

Opening times:

Monday to Friday: 6.30pm-10.00pm, Saturday and Sunday and bank holidays 9am to 10.00pm

For Emergencies

Queen's Hospital Burton Accident and Emergency Department
Belvedere Road
Burton on Trent
Staffordshire
DE13 0RB

01283 566333

Open 24 hours a day 7 days a week

Leicester Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department

Infirmary Square
 Leicester 
 LE1 5WW 

0300 303 1573

Open 24 hours a day 7 days a week

Central Access Point Mental Health Support 

0808 800 3302

Anyone needing mental health support for themselves or others can call this service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Vitaminds NHS LLR Talking Therapies 

Self referral via website https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/make-a-referral/self-referral/nhs-mental-health-self-referral/leicester-leicestershire-rutland-nhs-mental-health-self-referral/ 

Or by calling 0330 094 5595. 

VitaMinds is not an emergency service and is not able to offer urgent help for crisis situations.

If you are thinking of hurting yourself, or suicide feels like the only option, please contact your GP or visit your local Accident and Emergency Department.

If you think you are struggling to keep yourself safe, or are seeking help for a medical emergency, call 999.

VitaMinds will respond to your self-referral within 72 hours.

Urgent Dental Care - Measham Medical Unit (meashamdoctors.co.uk)

You may have seen in the news that GPs are now able to prescribe weight loss injections. However, our local Integrated Care Board (ICB)—which determines what can be prescribed in Leicestershire—has not yet signed up to this initiative. It is unlikely to be available before August.

We kindly ask that you do not book an appointment to discuss this at this time, as we are currently unable to offer any support until the scheme is formally approved.

Helping women and anyone with a cervix to understand how cervical screening can help to detect and prevent cervical cancer.

We know that for many cervical screening isn’t always an easy process, but our screening nurses are highly experienced and can help to make the quick lifesaving procedure comfortable for you. Currently 1 in 4 women do not attend their screening appointment, whatever the reason we’re here to support women to get their cervical screening when invited.

Cervical screenings are estimated to save 5,000 lives a year in the UK, so it’s important to remember that however you get screened it’s the best way to prevent cervical cancer. If it helps you to book and come along to your first or overdue screening there are lots of things that can be done to help make you feel comfortable such as playing music, reading a book, meditating, or bringing along a friend for support our nurses will help with anything else that helps to make you feel at ease.

Do the one thing that will help to detect cervical cancer - screening takes less than ten minutes, and it could save your life.

We are very proud to announce we have been awarded Active Practice status by the Royal College of General Practitioners.

The team headed up by our practice champion Charlotte Mather have worked really hard to achieve this status and you may have seen some of our team out on a short walk for our "walk your break" initiative. 

What is an Active Practice?

The Active Practices Charter is an initiative by The Royal College of GPs and Sport England to inspire GP practices to commit to increasing activity and reducing sedentary behaviour in both staff and patients.

We are all aware of the benefits of being more active so to prove to patients that we really do mean what we say, we took the steps to become accredited.  Charlotte, who works in our reception team, has really encouraged us all to get out walking and has been instrumental in achieving this accreditation.

If you would like to find out any further information about any of the Active Together groups that are available in our area, please call into the surgery to check out our notice board and/or ask to speak with Charlotte.  Charlotte works Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

More information can be found at  https://www.active-together.org/letsgetmoving