Book Your Private GP Appointment

Where is the appointment?

Newry: 6-8 Savages Terrace, Edward Street, Newry

Galgorm: The Courtyard Business Centre, Galgorm Castle, Ballymena

If you are not able to visit the Duality Health clinic yourself, we also offer video consultations. These allow our clinicians to give you high-quality medical care from a place that suits you.

Yes, all patients need to wear a mask.

As a private clinic, we reserve the right to ask all visitors to wear a mask while in the building. If you have an exemption or do not wish to wear a mask, we are happy to offer you a video consultation instead. This is to protect other vulnerable patients, as well as the clinicians and administrative staff who deliver your service.

You may be asked by clinical or administrative staff to remove your mask for short periods for the purposes of testing or examination. This is appropriate, and has been thoroughly risk-assessed to ensure you stay safe.

We allow one family member to attend with the patient if they require assistance or are vulnerable. This is to minimise risk to you and the clinician by limiting the number of people in a closed space.

If every patient overran their appointment by five minutes, we would be hours behind schedule by the end of each day. Since Duality Health is a busy clinic with busy patients, we make the effort to stick to scheduled appointment lengths unless there is a serious medical emergency. This policy allows us to provide a convenient and valuable service, and ensures we give every patient the same high level of respect.

We now employ a nurse to take blood and pathology samples. This allows the GP to focus on clinical matters and follow their appointment schedule. There is a very small fee for patients referred by the GP to the nurse for blood tests.

We can refer you to the NHS or private sector providers. But except for admission to hospital or a 2-week-wait cancer referral, most other waiting times for NHS care run into 12 months or more. This even includes urgent referrals.

For timely consultant opinions, we strongly recommend being referred to one of our private secondary care partners.

Referral letters and printed prescriptions generated during the consultation are included with the cost of your appointment. Later requests for referrals or prescriptions will carry a fee.

If you receive a private prescription, you are responsible for the cost of medications at the pharmacy.

Our clinicians will prescribe antibiotics when clinically appropriate, following the same evidence-based guidance as our NHS colleagues. But while private GP appointments are an excellent way to receive a quick and insightful medical opinion, we offer no guarantee of a prescription. Prescribing antibiotics on request would be poor medical practice, and could cause you more harm than good.

We do not currently prescribe or administer Schedule 1-3 drugs. However, we can prescribe non-Schedule medications, and Schedule 4 & 5 medications.

If your appointment is to ask for specific medication, please check the relevant government guidance before booking your appointment.