You may be surprised to learn that Flitwick Surgery is the largest practice in the locality with over 16,000 registered patients.
We offer more than 7,000 individual appointments each month, when our patients can see our GPs, Emergency Assessment Team (EAT), general practice nurses, healthcare assistants and our phlebotomist. Our in-house team also offers a range of specialist appointments including antenatal/postnatal care, as well as musculoskeletal, asthma, diabetic and respiratory clinics.
All our patients are registered with Flitwick Surgery as well as being allocated a named GP. They have the overall responsibility for the care and support provided to you by the practice.
As we are a group practice you may book in to see any doctor you wish, subject to appointment availability. You do not always have to see your named GP and, in some instances, you may wish to see a GP that specialises in a particular disease or condition, for example musculoskeletal gynaecology or diabetes.
Please contact the practice or ask at reception to find out your named GP’s details. If you have a preference for a specific GP the practice will make reasonable efforts, wherever possible, to accommodate this request.
Our small team in the dispensary is kept incredibly busy as the staff handle several hundred requests for repeat prescriptions daily, as well as dispensing over 250 individual items prescribed on the day by our GPs and minor illness nurses. We can dispense to almost 25% of our registered patient population and you can find out whether you are eligible for our dispensing services by contacting reception.
Our approach to your healthcare
The doctors and staff at Flitwick Surgery aim to provide a wide range of healthcare services.
We are a General Medical Services (GMS) practice. The practice adjoins the Flitwick Clinic where other allied health professionals are based. This means that we deliver healthcare alongside other community staff, including community nurses, health visitors, midwives, therapists and other professionals allied to medicine.
Our patients can expect courteous and attentive care, in confidential surroundings. You may expect an explanation of your treatment and condition.
We ask patients to use services in a thoughtful way, mindful of other’s needs.
Medical services in Flitwick
There is a history of permanent settlement on Flitwick Moor as early as 4000 BC, but the village gained its greatest importance when the Romans built a road through Flitwick linking Ermine Street and Watling Street. The current Windmill Road follows the route of the Roman road. The Saxons eventually ousted the Romano-British inhabitants and established farms near the sites now occupied by Flitwick Manor and Flitwick Mill. The Saxons also built a church at Priestley (“priest’s meadow”), near the manor house.
Flitwick was mentioned in the Doomsday Book, when it was given to the Norman Lord, William de Lovet. In 1150 the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and the mill were gifted to Dunstable Priory by the Lord of Flitwick. The Priory held the church until the dissolution of the monasteries.
Medical practice in this area can be traced back to visiting surgeons from Toddington and Clophill in the 16th Century. This practice originated in Church Street, Ampthill in 1760. At the end of the 19th Century the small village of Flitwick expanded and the single-handed practice became a partnership. Gradually more doctors began practicing in the area. By 1988 there were 10 doctors in partnership in Ampthill and Flitwick. In the spring of 1989 this very large group divided, for administrative reasons, creating four doctor partnerships in Ampthill and six in the new Flitwick surgery, which was designed and financed by the doctors in 1982.