Carrickfergus Health Centre | Taylor's Avenue | Carrickfergus | Co. Antrim | BT38 7HT | Tel: 028 9331 5955

GPs partners in Northern Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action for a better 2025/2026 contract offer.

Next steps – referendum on collective action

GP partners in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of collective action, 98.7% of those who voted said they were willing to take collective action. NIGPC now urges GP partners to start taking at least one of the easy, safe and sustainable actions. Collective action will turn up the pressure on the Government to do the right thing for general practice and patients. We need more core funding to protect general practice.

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IMPORTANT PATIENT NOTICE:

Due to our current clinical system provider ceasing to operate, Scotch Quarter Practice will move to a new computer system from Friday 5th December 2025. This will impact on services we can provide between 5th December  to 12th December.

  • Emergency Only Service Friday 5th December to Wednesday 10th December
  • Limited Appointments Thursday 11th December to Friday 12th December

If you have a prescription due between these dates you MUST order no later than 3rd December 2025. The practice will have no facility to process prescriptions until after the installation of our new system. If you are an online user you will receive an email notification from [email protected] on how to register for the new online system once fully operational – (this is not spam). You can continue to use online services until 28th November 2025. We have currently ceased new applications for online services.

Your patience and understanding is appreciated during this process.