General practice & preventive care
Apricot Flint Clinic is a small independent practice built around longer consultations, continuity with one named clinician, and written plans you can take home. Registration is open to new patients.
How we triage
Every enquiry is read by a clinician before a slot is offered, so you are booked into the right length of appointment first time — a nurse review, a standard twenty-minute consultation, or a double slot for complex or multiple problems.
Care pathways
Each pathway has its own appointment length and its own clinician group. If you are unsure which applies, describe the problem in the enquiry form and we will place you.
Pathway 01
Short-term illness, skin and joint problems, mental health first conversations, test requests and interpretation.
Pathway 02
Structured annual and six-month reviews for asthma, diabetes, blood pressure, thyroid and chronic pain.
Pathway 03
Contraception and coil fitting, menopause consultations, cervical screening, infant checks and childhood illness.
Pathway 04
Pre-travel risk assessment, routine and seasonal immunisation, and catch-up schedules for adults and children.
Your visit
A first visit takes about forty minutes in total, including registration. Here is the whole sequence, from enquiry to follow-up, with nothing left to guess.
Tell us the problem in a sentence or two and the session that suits you. A clinician reads it the same working day.
We reply by email with a time, the clinician’s name, the appointment length, and anything to bring or stop beforehand.
New patients complete a one-page health history on arrival. There is step-free access and a quiet waiting room away from reception.
Your clinician has read your notes before you sit down. Examinations, bloods and basic imaging referrals are arranged in the room.
You leave with a written summary: what we think, what we ruled out, what happens next, and who to contact if things change.
Clinical team
Every registered patient is assigned a named clinician and keeps them for routine care. You can ask to change at any time, without giving a reason.
Dr Noor HalvorsenGP Partner
General practice with a focus on diabetes and cardiovascular risk. Leads the long-term condition review programme.
English, Norwegian
Dr Idris BaptisteGP Partner
Musculoskeletal medicine, joint injections and chronic pain. Runs the Thursday minor procedures session.
English, French
Dr Wren CastellaneGP, Women’s Health
Contraception and coil fitting, menopause care and cervical screening. Takes the Wednesday afternoon session.
English, Spanish
Mairead ToftAdvanced Nurse Practitioner
Respiratory and asthma reviews, wound care, immunisation and travel health assessments. First point of contact for nurse pathways.
English, Irish
Sessions & practical notes
Session times are fixed so you can plan around them. Bloods are always taken in the morning; procedures and reviews sit in the afternoon.
| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 – 12:30 | 14:00 – 18:00 | Phlebotomy from 08:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 – 12:30 | 14:00 – 17:00 | Long-term condition reviews |
| Wednesday | 08:00 – 12:30 | 13:30 – 18:30 | Women’s and family health |
| Thursday | 08:00 – 12:30 | 14:00 – 18:00 | Minor procedures and injections |
| Friday | 08:00 – 13:00 | Closed | Results and admin from 13:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 – 12:00 | Closed | Vaccination clinic only |
It saves the first five minutes of your appointment and avoids a second visit.
Questions
If your question is not here, put it in the enquiry form — the reply comes from a clinician, not a template.
Send the enquiry form and choose “Register as a new patient” as your reason. We reply with a registration link and a short health questionnaire, then book a twenty-minute first appointment so a clinician can go through your history properly rather than at reception.
Once you are registered we request your records from your previous practice, which usually takes two to four weeks to arrive. Your first appointment does not wait for them — bring any letters, repeat prescription slips or results you already hold and we work from those in the meantime.
Yes. Consultation rooms have space for a pram and there is a low table with books in the quiet waiting area. If the appointment is likely to involve an examination or a difficult conversation, tell us in the enquiry and we will offer a session time when a second member of staff can sit with your child.
Our clinicians between them work in Norwegian, French, Spanish and Irish as well as English. For any other language we book a telephone interpreter for the appointment at no cost to you — request it in the enquiry form so the slot is extended to allow for it.
Entry, reception, both consultation rooms and the treatment room are step-free and on one level, with an accessible toilet and a hearing loop at the desk. If you need a ground-floor room with extra space for a wheelchair or a quiet arrival away from the waiting room, say so when you enquire.
Repeat requests placed before midday are reviewed the same working day; new medicines or anything overdue a review are held until your clinician can check it. For cancellations, give us as much notice as you can — released slots go to patients waiting for an urgent review that day, and there is no charge for a cancelled appointment.
Request an appointment
One short form. A clinician reads every enquiry the same working day and replies by email with a slot, a clinician name and an appointment length.
Please do not use this form for an emergency or for anything that cannot wait until the next working day — contact your local emergency service instead.