Welcome to Murrayfield Medical Centre

We provide comprehensive NHS primary care services to help you manage your health and well-being.

Our aim is to provide a high quality, caring and personal healthcare service to our whole patient population.

Please help us by getting the right care in the right place by:

• searching NHSInform.Scot for self-help advice on common symptoms and a guide to local services and opening times
• visiting your local pharmacy first to help treat minor illnesses, many can provide consultations without an appointment and prescribe medicines previously only available from your GP
• calling the GP practice for routine or urgent care during normal opening hours
• contacting your dentist for dental problems or an optician for eye problems
• calling 111, day or night, for minor injuries advice and treatment or for urgent care when your GP or dental practice is closed
• dialing 999 or attend A&E ONLY in a critical emergency

Please note the practice is closed Friday 18th and Monday 21st April for Easter public holidays. During this time if you become unwell you can get self-help advice on NHS Inform website (click here). You may also visit your local pharmacy for advice on minor ailments/medications. Pharmacies open on the above dates are listed below. GP ‘Out of Hours’ service is available by calling ‘111’. In a medical emergency call ‘999’ immediately.

Local Pharmacies open over Easter

• Boots Craigleith – 24 South Groathill Avenue (Tel 0131 332 6114), Open Fri 18^th 9am – 8pm, Mon 21^st 10am – 6pm
• Boots Gyle – Unit 10 Gyle Shopping Centre (Tel 0131 317 1288), Open Fri 18^th 9am – 7pm, Mon 21^st 10am – 6pm
• Boots Corstorphine – 129 St Johns Road (Tel 131 334 4520), Open Fri 18^th 8am-5.30pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Murrayfield Pharmacy – 115 Corstorphine Road (Tel 0131 337 5100), Open Fri 18^th 9am – 6pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Right Medicines – 9-11 Roseburn Terrace (Tel 0131 337 4084), Fri 18^th CLOSED, Mon 21^st Open 9am-6pm
• Carrick Knowe Pharmacy – 146 Saughton Road North (Tel 0131 334 2087), Open Fri 18^th 8am-6pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Corstorphine Pharmacy – 159 St Johns Road (Tel 0131 334 8106), Open Fri 18^th 9am-1pm & 2pm-6pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Apple Pharmacy – 65 Dalry Road (Tel 0131 337 4838), Open Fri 18^th 9am-1pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Avante Pharmacy – 39 Westfield Road (Tel 131 287 2020), Open Fri 18^th 9am-6pm, Mon 21^st 9am-6pm
• Well Pharmacy – 4 Stenhouse Cross (Tel 131 443 2222), Open Fri 18^th 9am-5.30pm, Mon 21^st CLOSED
• Dears Pharmacy – 645 Ferry Road, CLOSED
• Omnicare  – 38 Duart Crescent, CLOSED
• Rowlands Pharmacy  – 5A Featherhall Avenue, CLOSED

Private Provider Shared Care Prescribing Requests (update March 2025)

We are no longer able to take on prescribing and monitoring of shared-care medications or specialist monitoring of certain medical conditions for  patients with a diagnosis made in the private sector. These shared-care medications and/or conditions require regular and ongoing specialist monitoring and review, and many such medications are either only licensed for specialist prescribing or prescribed outside their licensed use. Medications prescribed for ADHD, gender incongruence, dementia, Isotretinoin for severe acne, monitoring after private bariatric surgery are some examples. Shared care agreements are established only between NHS GPs and NHS specialists and have been extensively negotiated and there is established clinical governance and communication between both NHS parties. These agreements are entirely voluntary and GPs are within their scope to not engage with this due to many reasons supported by both the GMC Prescribing guidance and the BMA. There are no such shared care agreements negotiated with individual private providers and it would rely on private patients to be transferred to NHS specialist services to support NHS shared care prescribing.

This is a decision that has been agreed across many GP practices in Lothian and supported by guidance from the Lothian Local Medical Committee due to capacity and workload issues, the longstanding underfunding in primary care, and the impact of long NHS waiting lists that means that NHS specialists cannot necessarily provide the specialist support to directly transfer this shared care prescribing to the NHS. We appreciate your understanding during these challenging times. We are more than happy to discuss onward NHS referrals in a routine appointment for a second opinion or transfer of care, but we cannot prescribe in the interim period.

Where a private specialist recommends the prescribing of a non-formulary or unlicensed medication we can only agree to ongoing prescribing if we have experience of the medication requested. If this is not the case, you will be directed back to the private provider for private provision or offered a suitable, formulary-based alternative that is within our remit as NHS GPs.

With regards to a private provider requesting investigation by the GP, the British Medical Association guidance clearly states that investigation should only be arranged through the GP-patient encounter and within the competencies of the GP. With regards to a private provider seeking a GP opinion for appropriateness of a privately provided treatment, again this is not within the NHS-funded duties of a GP. There are many other instances where the request from the private provider may not be accepted, and we will communicate this clearly to the best of our ability.