Evening Clinic: We now run an evening doctor's clinic for our patients who find it difficult to attend the surgery during day time. The clinic runs twice a week from 6.30pm to 8.30pm by appointment only.
Seasonal Flu vaccination. It is the time of the year again when we vaccinate all our patients over 65 and our patients who suffer from the following: Severe Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Heart trouble, Kidney disease or you have a weakened immune system or if you are the main carer for an elderly or disabled person. We are running flu clinics throughout the week. We have now vaccinated over 1500 patients, if you have not had your flu vaccination yet please contact the reception team before we run out.
Swine Flu news on vaccination: Vaccines are now available at the practice. If you belong to one of the following category, please book your appointment in one our designated clinics.
i.All pregnant women.
ii.Patients aged 6 months and up to 65 years who suffer from disease such as Severe Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Heart trouble, Kidney disease or have a weakened immune system.
iii.Household contacts of immunocompromised individuals.
iv.People aged 65 and over in the current seasonal flu vaccine clinical at-risk groups.
v. All children under 5, clinics will start soon, please enquire at reception.
149 patients have not attended their doctors and nurses appointments in December 2009
WE ARE EXPERIENCING A REAL PROBLEM AT THE PRACTICE WITH PATIENTS WHO DO NOT TURN UP FOR THEIR APPOINTMENTS. WE ARE FORCED TO TAKE ACTION AND WHEN A PATIENT DOES NOT TURN UP, HE/SHE WILL NOW RECEIVE A WARNING LETTER AND IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN, WE WILL HAVE NO OPTION BUT REMOVING THE PATIENT FROM OUR PRACTICE LIST.
In December 149 patients did not turn up for their appointments which means 24clinic hours have been wasted when they could have been offered to other patients. If you cannot make your appointment, please let us know. You can cancel your appointment online, you just have to ask our receptionist team to give you a personal username and password. You can also book your apointment this way as well as requesting your prescriptions.
Central-surgery Patient Participation Group. It is about our patients being involved in decision making. We set up the group last December; we had initial meetings to discuss how we are going forward, about you telling us how you would like the practice to improve its services and the practice to promote a healthier lifestyle for its patients. We work in partnership, we have some ideas about what we can do together like organising walking groups or setting up public meeting inviting consultants or specialist nurses or writing up a questionnaire asking what patients want, but we need more members to materialise all these ideas, we don’t ask too much of your time, we have a group meeting every 3 months but we are in touch regularly, so if you have ideas and you want to be part of this forward thinking participation group, please contact Christine Lloyd on 01702 468443. |
