They have closed their practice on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon now and if you want to see them then you have to go to their other practice in Wallsend. If you don't have transport to get there it makes very hard especially if you are very sick. This is just not good enough! One Saturday morning I had to take my husband to the Wallsend Practice where we were all waiting at the front door for them to open, it was passed the opening time and my husband collapsed outside. The lother people that were there waiting to get in with us started banging on the door and ringing the phone number to get them to open saying what had happened to my husband and that he needed come in and lay down. For a while she refused as she said that the doctor hadn't arrived yet but finally relented. Another time my husband had to see one of the other doctor's in the practice (as our usual doctor was away ) and my husband told him that he felt terrible. He asked my husband how much he had to drink the night before (my husband doesn't drink alcohol) to which my husband said he had nothing to drink. He didn't appologise to him for accussing him of being drunk and recovering from a hangover. This was all before he even examined him. The problem was that my husbands blood pressure was way up and that was the cause of it!

Approximate cost: $They do bulk bill people who have a health care card or a pension card