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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Urgent Alerts

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Our internet provider has performed upgrades and somehow broken our internet connection to our premises.

While we have a back-up this is slow and intermittently disconnects.

  • As our phones are VOIP they are currently inactive
  • Payments are slow - please be patient
  • General issues such as

For any enquiries please email the practice and we will call you back.

Bookings please use the online website bookings page.

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