Choose & Book is a service that allows you to choose your hospital or clinic and book an appointment with a Specialist.

Since February 2006 Minster Medical Practice has been operating Choose & Book. When you and your GP agree that you need to see a Specialist, you will be able to choose which Hospital you wish to go to. This can be a local hospital or further afield if you wish, whichever is more convenient to you.

For information on each of the local Hospitals and the services they provide, click here.

The Benefits of Choose & Book

• You can also choose the date and time for your appointment
• You experience greater convenience and certainty. With the old system, your hospital or clinic chose the date and time of your appointment. This may not have been convenient for you. With Choose & Book, the choice is yours.
• There is less chance that information will get lost in the post because more correspondence takes place through computers

Booking your appointment

After your consultation, your GP will give you a slip to hand to the Receptionist. She will then book your hospital appointment direct at a time and date to suit you. In some instances, if there are no appointments available in your preferred hospital we will arrange a Call-back appointment. This is when the Choose & Book centre will call you on a chosen date and time to arrange an outpatient appointment for you. Once this has been booked you will be given a reference number and password. Your reference number is for your referral - you will need to give this to the Choose & Book Appointments Advisor when they call you. Your password is used to make sure that only you or someone you have chosen to act on your behalf can make or change your booking. You will be given a printed slip showing all the details relevant to your referral.

For further information please visit the Choose & Book Website by clicking on the image below