Medical Secretary
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 February 2026 |
| Location: | Preston, PR1 9BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0392-26-0001 |
Summary
Your duties may include:- • Typing patient letters, referrals and reports dictated, written or verbal • Ensuring letters are generated ready for signature, and a copy is recorded in the clinical record • Typing other documents as requested, e.g. Individual Funding Requests, with GP guidance • Recording relevant patient data on the Practice clinical system, providing an excellent audit trail • Actioning tasks and admin notes for the secretarial work group on a daily basis, dealing with urgent requests as soon as possible • Responding to patient enquiries/queries via the telephone, email or in person • Obtaining information from hospitals • Making and chasing hospital appointments for patients, if required • Ensuring patient letters are sent to the relevant department using the appropriate method, i.e. electronic referrals, paper referrals, telephone • Urgent and Two Week Wait (Fast Track) referrals to be booked through NHS electronic referral service • Maintain the outstanding activity/worklist and rejected referrals on the system • Any other delegated duties considered appropriate to the post This list is not exhaustive and there may be times when the role will involve carrying out additional duties, which will be appropriate to the post, to ensure the efficient running of the Practice. You will be expected to embrace any procedural changes and adapt to new ways of working as necessary. Experience of EMIS is preferable but not essential, as full training will be given.