Flu Vaccines

To ensure the surgery remains a safe place for our patients and staff, we are having to change the way we deliver the vaccines. The most important change is that all flu appointments need to be prebooked.

We are continuing  to vaccinate those at the highest risk:

• Shielded patients and their households
• Patients over 65 years
• Patients aged 2-3 years
• Patients aged under 65 who have long term conditions
• Carers, including front line health and social care workers
• From 1st December: patients aged 50-64 years.

To book your appointment, please speak to reception or use our online services.

We will continue to offer flu vaccinations during the second lockdown - it is vital that those in risk groups attend for their flu vaccine

Our Ongoing Response to COVID-19

COVID Vaccine Update: The announcement of the covid vaccination programme starting is very exciting and gives us hope that, once complete, we will see more of a return to normal life. The priority will be the most vulnerable for the next few weeks, such as care home patients, and front line health staff (who are at highest risk of being exposed to COVID). We are working hard with neighbouring practices and local health services to set up a covid vaccination service (which will include mass vaccination sites), but we are still awaiting some final details, such as when we will be getting the vaccine. Please do not contact the practice to ask for a vaccine or for more details at this stage - we do not have the answers yet, and it will tie up the phone lines and staff. We will keep this page up to date as the programme becomes more clear. 

Throughout lockdown, the practice has remained open and continued to serve the community, whilst doing our part to prevent the spread of COVID to our staff and patients.

We have had to adopt new ways of working, and a patient survey showed a very high level of satisfaction with telephone, video and online consultations.

As life slowly returns more towards normal, we have to be mindful of the fact that this autumn and winter are going to be disruptive due to self isolation, whether or not there is a second spike of coronavirus. Whilst wanting to deliver as normal a service as possible we have to plan for the possibility that a member of staff could be off work with no notice, or that there is a local surge in cases. Along side this we want to ensure that we help our patients to be in the best place possible to meet the coming winter (eg helping patients to improve their long term condition control, or catching up with patients who may have missed vaccinations).

So, over the summer we changing our appointments system temporarily so that we leave the morning free to deal with on the day calls and turning the afternoon surgeries into clinics for planned work, such as the baby clinic, reviewing patients or long term condition reviews. We  will continue to have a doctor on call available to deal with problems that need to be managed that day. This is much closer to our normal way of working, though wherever possible consultations will avoid face-to-face appointments.

“We are all in this together” – there are things that our patients can do to help us and the NHS:

• Talk before you walk: unless it is a potentially life threatening emergency, don’t come to the surgery, walk-in centre or A&E without contacting NHS111 or ourselves first;
• Giving receptionist a short summary of what the problem helps them to ensure that you see the right person – in many cases this won’t be a doctor. Again why not go to the online NHS111 first, or choose the “help myself” option on e-consult on our website, and see if there is another person or service that could help you;
• There is a lot of pressure on our phones: we increased the number of phone lines the practice has from 12 to 17, but there are times in the day when the phones are busy. So why not try:
  • For more simple problems or queries, why not use our e-consult service by going to the website? Its available 24/7 so you can consult us at a time that suits you. The forms look long but they are the questions that we would be asking anyway and will save you time in the long run. If you put enough information, we may be able to respond without having to phone you
  • Using our online services, particularly for ordering prescriptions. Again this is available 24/7 and can be accessed online or via the NHSApp for smartphones.  

Phoning at quieter times: for general queries, the afternoons tend to be quieter times.

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Worried About Your Poorly Child

Same day help for your poorly child If your child has become unwell in the last few days and you would like urgent advice then please contact the surgery and we will arrange for a clinician to speak to you and if necessary to see your child, today - this could save you an unnecessary trip to A+E or a Walk-in Centre. Can we also make you aware of the Little Orange Book, which provides expert help for parents and carers on how to manage common problems in babies and small children – ask your GP for a copy,

Website Accessibilty Compliance

Whilst our website was designed with the highest accessibilty standards in mind, we are aware that technology has moved on. We are looking to improve the website to achieve at least AA standard throughout. As such we have asked our website provider to undertake an audit of what work is needed to bring the website up to this standard