Your GP practice
A GP practice is a team of health professionals, led by doctors known as general practitioners (GPs), who oversee all aspects of your physical and mental health care, throughout your life. You should contact them for medical advice and treatment for conditions you can’t treat yourself or aren’t getting better.
Through your GP practice you can receive a wide range of services, which may include:
- Consultations and advice about your health
- Prescriptions for medicines
- Tests to help diagnose what is wrong with you
- A referral to a specialist service
- Monitoring and care for any long term health problems.
- Screening, vaccinations and advice to help prevent health problems or diagnosing them as early as possible.
You can learn more about using your GP practice in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland using the links further down this page.
Using your GP practice in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
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Minor ailments
If you are normally in good health, you don’t need to be seen by your GP practice for many minor ailments.
Self referral
You can refer yourself to some services without needing an appointment at your practice first.
Registering with a GP practice
Discover how to find a local practice and what you need to do to register.
Appointment options
Practices offer appointments in several formats instead seeing someone face-to-face.
The practice team
Learn about who’s who in the practice team, both in the practice itself and in the local community.
Online services
Read about how signing up for online services can help you with routine requests of your practice and more.
Pharmacy First
Your practice may offer you an appointment at a Pharmacy instead. This is known as Pharmacy First.
Top tips for using GP practices
Practices can get very busy. Learn what you can do to get the right care as quickly as possible.
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