Welcome to the Bird in Eye Surgery web site

This website has been designed to let you know about our practice and the services that we offer. Please read it carefully. We hope that you will find it helpful and informative.

We extend a warm welcome to you from everyone at the BIRD IN EYE Surgery. Our modern and well equipped premises are situated within Uckfield Community Hospital.

We are an expanding practice with five doctors at present and we also have a training GP who we supervise.

The five doctors have a wide variety of experience and complement each other to provide a full medical service.The training GP is a fully qualified doctor who needs to gain experience working within a GP practice for 1 year before he or she can apply for a GP position.

We have ample parking and taxi drop off points together with a frequent bus service. The surgery has full disabled access together with a disabled toilet.

Uckfield Community Hospital offers a range of services including a minor injuries department to deal with cuts, burns and minor medical injuries. We have visiting consultants from Eastbourne District Hospital, the Kent and Sussex and Princess Royal Hospitals who run outpatient clinics in various specialities. We also have on-site physiotherapy and x-ray facilities. Certain routine operations are carried out at the hospital by the surgical consultants who visit, and there is a 15 bedded GP run medical ward. The local chemist, Selby's, has a pharmacy within the building for your use.

There are also branches of Boots and Tesco's pharmacy in the High Street, along with the main branch of Selby's.

South East Health, the GP led out of hours service, also operates out of the hospital at weekends, evening and night time.

We are available between 8.00am and 6.30pm Monday through to Friday. When you telephone the surgery you will be presented with a range of options from which to choose. For appointments, press number 1. You may find yourself in a queue, but we will endeavour to get to your call as soon as possible.

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce that we have introduced a new, improved online appointments service.  In addition to booking the night before, you are now able to book, view and cancel appointments with the doctors up to three months in advance.  Don't worry, if you provide us with a mobile phone number we'll text you nearer the time to remind you of your appointment!  You need to register for this service so pick up a form when you are next in the surgery and ensure you bring along some photo ID.

We will be discontinuing our older booking system in the next few months so please do move to the new system at www.myvisiononline.co.uk.