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Orchard Surgery
About Us
The practice is located in the beautiful village of Melbourn, just a few miles from Royston and the historic city of Cambridge.
The practice has 4 GP consulting rooms, 2 nurse treatment rooms plus 3 general treatment rooms. Our rooms are spacious and well lit.
Our consulting rooms are colour coded and well signposted.
Meridian Primary Care Network
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are a new way of working that enables health and other services to work together to provide better access for patients.
Since the NHS was created in 1948, the population has grown and people are living longer. Many people are living with long term conditions such as diabetes and heart disease or suffer with mental health issues and may need to access their local health services more often.
New Patient Registration
Patients are accepted from the villages of Melbourn, Meldreth, Shepreth, Fowlmere, Thriplow, Foxton, Barrington, Orwell, Whaddon, Kneesworth, and the town of Royston (see below for more details).
Our reception staff can confirm your eligibility from your postcode.
It is quick and easy to register with a GP using our simple online GP registration form.
Accessibility Needs
We want to get better at communicating with our patients and ensure you can read and understand the information we send you.
If you find it hard to read our letters or if you need someone to support you at appointments, please complete our Accessibility Needs Form below.
Meet our Team
We have 8 doctors working at the surgery as well as a team of nurses and healthcare assistants.
The Reception Team look after patients, their appointments, prescriptions and all the stuff that flies around - a massive amount of administration involved in running a busy, practice.
See Our Reviews
We encourage our patients to let us know about their positive experiences at our practice. If you'd like to leave a review, please do so on the NHS website
You can see what other patients have said about us here
Alternatively, if you've had a bad experience we'd also like to know. Please contact us and let us know how we can improve.
Practice Information
Parking
We have an adjoining car park which provides ample parking for all our patients. We encourage all patients and visitors to use the car park as on-street parking is limited and can be hazardous at times!
Wheelchair Access
We have a large and visitor friendly entrance and outer foyer which opens directly into the practice. This allows easy access for all our patients.
Our waiting room is spacious and comfortable. It has access to both the reception desk and dispensary hatch. It leads to the consulting rooms, with ease of access for patients, wheelchairs and prams.
Training Practice
We are a teaching practice for junior doctors, known as foundation year doctors who also work in the practice. These are qualified doctors at the beginning of their career and work under the close supervision of one of the senior doctors.
The practice is involved in teaching medical students, usually in small groups.
The receptionist will inform you if your doctor is seeing patients with a student in attendance. If you do not wish to see a medical student please inform reception. Declining to see the medical student will not alter your care in any way.
We usually have students around the same time every year, between August and November.
GP Patient Survey
The GP Patient Survey is an independent survey run by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England. The survey is sent out to over two million people across England. The results show how people feel about their GP practice.
Our overall CQC Rating was: GOOD
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) makes sure hospitals, care homes, dental and GP surgeries, and all other care services in England provide people with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care and encourages them to make improvements where possible.
SEE THE FULL REPORT