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Appointments
Clinics are staggered during the working day and appointments are offered between 9a.m. – 11.30am and 2.30-6pm.  If you work during the day we do offer a limited amount of appointments to try and alleviate problems you may encounter try to attend during the usual surgery hours.  Please telephone Reception to book all clinic appointments: 01889 579276.

Telephone Advice
The practice offers a telephone triage service whereby you can speak to a doctor with regards to any matters on most days.  Please contact the surgery at 8.30am to make an appointment.

The current policy for the practice is that if you have a normal blood or x-ray result the doctor will not contact you.  If you have any abnormal result you will be contacted to make a telephone triage appointment with the doctor to discuss this.

Cancelling your Appointment
If you are unable to attend an appointment with one of the doctors or nurses, please telephone to cancel as the appointment could be offered to someone else.

Beating Cervical Cancer
We are currently offering girls aged 16 to 18 the opportunity to receive the HPV vaccination which offers protection against cervical cancer. Please call Reception for more details

Proposed Building Plans


Aelfgar Surgery has finally been given the go-ahead from South Staffordshire PCT to commence their building alterations. The partners have now secured funding to allow them to increase their clinical rooms at the practice in order for additional services to eventually be offered.

Dr Huda said, “this is a really exciting opportunity for Aelfgar Surgery to be able to enhance our services which we offer not only to our patients but for others residing in Rugeley”. He also made reference to the surgery entrance which will be updated with automatic doors, “we are aware that some of our patients have considerable problems with the existing doors, by updating these, this will also ensure our practice is up to date with Disability Discrimination rules etc”. He went on to explain that by removing the numerous toilets and utilising the space more efficiently this would free up much needed space along the medical corridor for additional clinical rooms.

Work is due to commence shortly after the Easter period and will continue until late Summer.

Everyone’s co-operation and patience is paramount throughout the Summer and the practice will try, wherever possible to keep any disruption to the patients to a minimum. Plans are on display in the surgery for anyone who wishes to look at the changes or you can download a PDF copy of the proposed changes here - it is 1MB in size.