Chipping Norton Health Centre

Chipping Norton Health Centre GP Surgery in West Oxfordshire. Providing NHS services to the local community.

21/07/2025

New Appointment system in September 2025.

In preparation for our new appointment system being launched in September, we will be holding open mornings once a week in August.

These open mornings will give patients a chance to come and find out how the new system will work and to ask questions to senior CNHC staff.

There is no need to contact us to book, the session will be drop in only.

A patient information sheet will be released in August and more information posted on this page, as well as on our website, if you cannot make any of the dates or you have any further questions.

Sessions are as follows:
Thursday 7th August 9 – 11.30
Wednesday 13th August 9 – 11.30
Tuesday 19th August 9 – 11.30
Thursday 28th August 9 – 11.30

09/07/2025

New Prescriptions box in the Town Centre.

Due to patient demand, we now have a prescriptions box at the following location:

Cotswold Newsagents
20 High St
Chipping Norton
OX7 5AD

This is a secure box emptied by our dispensary staff. You can place your repeat slip in this box to request your medication. It does not matter who dispenses it. Please allow 8 day from depositing your request before you attempt collection of your medication.
We would like to thank Cotswold Newsagents for their help and support.

07/07/2025

September - New appointment system.

You may have seen an article in the Chippy News about a new appointment system that will start in September. The article is copied below for your reference.

Appointments update.
From patient feedback and GMS (General Medical Services) contractual changes, we have made the decision to implement a new appointment booking system, which will be clinician led.
For the majority of patients, this will mean filling in an online form to request an appointment. For those not able to do so, telephone access and other contact methods will still be available.

This process is known as Clinician-led triage and is in operation in many GP surgeries across the UK. It means a clinician will be involved in deciding on the next step when a patient request comes into the practice. We plan to introduce these changes on the 1st September 2025.

We are currently still in the planning stages which will be finalised soon. Throughout August we will hold patient information drop in mornings, that will explain the details surrounding how the new system will work. There will be senior staff members present for you to discuss these changes with. We kindly ask patients to please wait until these sessions before directing any questions to the practice. From mid-July onwards, more information about both the drops in and the new system will appear on our website, social media and on notice boards in the waiting room.

18/06/2025

SCAM alert
We have been advised that there is currently a scam in operation, that sends patients a text message asking them to sign a new agreement to stay registered at their practice. This is not necessary and not legitimate so please do not click on the link or pay any money. This has been featured on the BBC. There is no need to contact the practice about this.

16/06/2025

Slightly later than normal are last months missed appointment figures.
This is where we post about the number of appointments that aren't attended and aren't cancelled.
During the month of May we had the following number of appointments where patients did not attend:
GP - 72
Nurse - 101
Clinical Pharmacist - 19
That's a lot of hours of missed appointments in 1 month.
A REMINDER - If you have an appointment booked and you can no longer make it, please cancel so someone else can make use of it.
You can cancel your appointment via the NHS app, the link in your reminder message, on the phone or in person. We are seeing an improvement but we still have some way to go.
We appreciate your support.

12/06/2025

PRACTICE CLOSURE - Tuesday 17th June from 1pm.
The Practice will be closed for the afternoon on Tuesday 17th June 2025 from 1.00pm. This is for essential staff training and is county wide.
You can access urgent medical care by dialling 111 or in an emergency calling 999. We will be open as normal on Wednesday 18th June 2025.
For routine appointment and non urgent queries, please call us after 10am on the Wednesday.
Our Dispensary will close at 1pm but will reopen at 4pm.

Carers Week (9th-15th June)Below are details of the events taking place across Oxfordshire during Carers week:Tuesday 10...
04/06/2025

Carers Week (9th-15th June)
Below are details of the events taking place across Oxfordshire during Carers week:
Tuesday 10th June:
Kidlington: Carers Drop-in, Kidlington Library, 23 Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 2BP, 1pm-4pm
Wallingford: Wallingford Carers Group, St Mary le More Church, Wallingford, OX10 0EG, 2pm- 4pm
Wednesday 11th June:
Oxford: Carers Information and Connect event, Holiday Inn, Peartree, Oxford, OX2 8JD, 9.30am-3pm (registration required Wantage: Celebrating Carers Café, Charlton Lodge Care Home, 3 Buttercup Road, Wantage, OX12 7GD, 10.30am-12.30pm
Witney: Age Without Limits Day event, Cogges, Church Lane, Witney OX28 3LA, 1.30pm-4pm
Thursday 12th June:
Banbury: Carers Drop-in, Banbury Cross Health Centre, South Bar House, 6 Oxford Road, Banbury, OX16 9AD, 2pm-4pm
Oxford: Carers Information Stand, Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 3XH, 10am-3pm
Friday 13th June:
Bicester: Carers Drop-in, Bicester Market, Sheep Street, OX26 6TB, 9am-4pm
Witney: Rethink Mental Illness Carers Week Picnic, meeting outside The Coffee Shed at The Leys, Witney, OX28 4BX, 12pm

22/05/2025

DISPENSARY CHANGES
From 1st June the opening hours of our dispensary will change. They will be as follows:
Monday - Friday 9am - 1pm. 1.30pm - 6pm.
Closed Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.
All dispensary patients, please ensure you order your medication in plenty of time and allow 4 working days before attempting to collect it.
If you are a NHS app user, the app may show your order as approved only a couple of hours after it has been placed. This does not mean it is ready to be collected. Please still allow the appropriate time before coming to the dispensary.
If you order your medication over the bank holiday weekend, please allow extra time before collecting.

20/05/2025

Due to all the road works around the town please allow extra time to get to the health Centre for you appointment

19/05/2025

Dispensary CLOSURE - Wednesday 21st May
Our Dispensary will be closed between 12.30 - 2pm for essential staff training.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

15/05/2025

PATIENT CAR PARK
Please note that there are some restrictions in our patient car park for the next 2 days. Please drive very carefully.
For this period of time only, we will allow parking on the access road where there are usually cones, However please do not obstruct the bus stop or the staff car park.

01/05/2025

UPDATE
We are back up and running (mostly). Please bear with us as there are still some delays. Please come in as normal for pre booked appointments.
Thank you for your understanding.

Address

Chipping Norton

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm

Telephone

+441608642742

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