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Extended Hours Mon- Fri: 630-8PM & Sat/Sun: 9am -2pm. Bank holidays: 9.30-12.30

Evenings and Weekend appointments available from October

Poplars Surgery Hub- Situated on Holly Lane, Erdington

Appointments made through Sutton Road Surgery;

Poplars Hub no. 0121 377 2139

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Welcome to Sutton Road Surgery

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

Sutton Road Surgery is being visited by Care Quality Commission on 31 May 2016

CQC will welcome your comments on the services Good or Bad you receive from Sutton Road Surgery.

Please ring 03000 616161 or email; www.cqc.org.uk

Your feed back will also help us at the surgery to improve our services wherever any gaps exit.

Thank you

Health News from the BBC and the NHS

BBC Health

NHS screening 'needs to fit with busy lives'
Mobile clinics and evening and weekend opening could help increase uptake of NHS screening programmes.
How dad saved son from 'scalding cuppa' scars
Each year hundreds of young UK children end up in hospital with severe but avoidable coffee and tea scalds, like Archie.
Deadly parasite 'jumped' from gorilla to humans
Discovery of mutation 50,000 years ago could help in the fight against malaria.
Tafida Raqeeb: Brain-damaged girl arrives in Italy
Hospital bosses in the UK had tried to block attempts to move Tafida Raqeeb to the hospital in Genoa.
Liquid food safety alert leaves woman with no food for 10 days
Jenny Evans is fed intravenously, but says a lack of deliveries left her without essential nutrition.
Royal Papworth Hospital rated 'outstanding' in all categories
Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge is the first in the UK to achieve the rating in all five areas.
Mental health sick leave rises for emergency workers
More police, firefighters and ambulance workers are taking time off for mental ill health.
Woman with severe head condition seeks Spain operation
Rachel Pighills needs £135,000 surgery as her neck can no longer support the weight of her head.
Head injuries: Cheap drug 'could save thousands of lives a year'
A cheap, common drug could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year if used routinely, doctors say.
More than half of A&Es 'not good enough'
The government in England must find a solution for social care to ease pressure, the regulator says.

NHS Choices Behind the Headlines

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Acid reflux drugs linked to increased stomach cancer risk
"A drug commonly used to treat acid reflux is linked to a more than doubled risk of developing stomach...
Nutrient drink for Alzheimer's has disappointing result in trial
A new study investigating the effects of a nutrient drink for Alzheimer's disease has led to very different...
Marriage may help lower dementia risk
"Marriage and having close friends may help protect against dementia, according to Loughborough University...
Afternoon open heart surgery 'leads to fewer complications'
"Afternoon heart surgery has lower risk of complications, study suggests," says The Guardian. Researchers...
Report calls for better mental health support in the workplace
"Up to 300,000 people with long-term mental health problems have to leave their jobs each year, a report...
Blood-thinning drugs may reduce dementia risk in people with irregular heartbeats
"Common blood thinning drugs halve the risk of dementia for patients who have an irregular heartbeat,"...
New genetic variants associated with breast cancer identified
"Do you have one of the 180 breast cancer genes? One in five women has a variant that raises her risk...