Kingshill Medical Practice

19/11/2025

**Practice Closed today Wednesday 19th November from 2pm to 6pm**

The Practice is closed today from 2pm til 6pm for Protected Learning time.

If you have an urgent medical issue during this time please call the surgery as normal and you will be diverted to trained call handlers who will triage you to the appropriate service.

Prescriptions can be ordered as normal during this time.

18/11/2025

**Practice Closed tomorrow Wednesday 19th November from 2pm to 6pm**

NHS Lanarkshire are committed to ensure that the best possible care is provided to our patients at all times. In order to support and sustain valuable General Practices, Protected Learning Time (PLT) will be in place across all participating GP practices.

PLT is an opportunity for the GP practice team to address learning and professional development needs.

The Practice will be closed tomorrow from 2pm til 6pm for Protected Learning time.

If you have an urgent medical issue during this time please call the surgery as normal and you will be diverted to trained call handlers who will triage you to the appropriate service.

Prescriptions can be ordered as normal during this time.

16/11/2025

**Practice Closed on Wednesday 19th November from 2pm to 6pm**

NHS Lanarkshire are committed to ensure that the best possible care is provided to our patients at all times. In order to support and sustain valuable General Practices, Protected Learning Time (PLT) will be in place across all participating GP practices.

PLT is an opportunity for the GP practice team to address learning and professional development needs.

The Practice will be closed on Wednesday from 2pm til 6pm for Protected Learning time.

If you have an urgent medical issue during this time please call the surgery as normal and you will be diverted to trained call handlers who will triage you to the appropriate service.

Prescriptions can be ordered as normal during this time.

11/11/2025

Our computer systems are currently down. Please bear with us while we have this fixed.

29/10/2025

National Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (CVD) Programme

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as heart disease and stroke, are a common cause of ill health and the second most common cause of death in Scotland. Many risk factors for developing CVD do not cause symptoms and people may not be aware that they are at risk.

The Scottish Government has launched a programme to offer simple checks for these risk factors so that treatment can be offered to reduce the risk of developing CVD.

Patients are eligible for these checks if they are aged 35-60 and have not received a full bundle of checks in the last years.

Checks include:
Height, weight and BMI
Blood Pressure
Blood tests (Diabetes and Cholesterol)
Smoking status
Alcohol Intake

We will be contacting eligible patients by text message or letter. If you wish to take part, please contact the surgery on 01555 811200.

For more information please follow the link below:

Cardiovascular diseases cause more than a quarter of all deaths in Scotland, the second most common cause of death after cancer. Scotland is predicting a 21% rise in disease burden by 2043 and a major cause of this increase is linked to CVD. Whilst some CVD figures have previously improved with the....

27/10/2025

Phones are now working. Thank you for your patience.

27/10/2025

Apologies. Phones are down this morning.

23/09/2025

Kingshill Medical Practice will be closed on Monday 29th September, 2025
For all emergencies phone NHS24 on 111

08/09/2025

📅 Bank holiday reminder – Monday 29 September 2025
💊 Need a routine prescription? Plan ahead.
Our Out of Hours service can’t supply routine prescriptions, so please make sure you order your repeats in good time.
✅ Most patients already do — thank you!
This helps keep urgent NHS services free for people who need them most.
⛑️ Out of Hours will only provide emergency prescriptions for essential medicines like:
• insulin
• inhalers for acute asthma
• palliative care pain relief
• epilepsy medication
📦 Don’t get caught short — order now and stay well this bank holiday.

03/09/2025

As part of the Scottish Government’s Cardiovascular Risk Factors Programme we will be inviting eligible patients to attend the Practice for assessment. If you receive an invite please contact the Practice to arrange an appointment.

Please follow the link below for further details:

Please note that there will be an RDS redeployment and content freeze from 8.30 am to 12 pm on Tuesday 26th August. This is to deploy the following changes:

20/08/2025

Phones are now in working order

20/08/2025

**Issues now resolved**

We are currently having a problem with our phone line and are waiting for an engineer to fix this.

Please bear with us as we try to have this fixed as quickly as possible.

Thanks for your patience.