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The practice now has a facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/DrUddinAndDrAnwar/
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Published on 4th Dec 2024
Get to know where to go - Winter 2024 - primary care booklet
Get to know where to go - winter-2024-primary-care-booklet-nov24.pdf
Get to Know Where to Go Winter Bank Holiday 2024 | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership for the christmas/new year bank holidays
Published on 29th Nov 2024
World AMR Awareness Week
World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) - 18-24 November 2024
Taking ANTIBIOTICS when you don’t need them puts you and your family at risk.
Our Practice Pledge
- When we see a child with a respiratory tract infection we will share the “When should I worry” booklet with parents/carers. Available at When should I worry-Booklet_England
The practice's AMS Champion is Dr Uddin.
Published on 18th Nov 2024
Measles, Mumps & Rubella Vaccinations
If you have not had your measles, mumps & rubella (MMR) vaccinations and you are aged 5 or over, pharmacies across Greater Manchester are offering the vaccine to make it quicker and easier for people to get vaccinated and get protected.
With cases of measles on the increase in Greater Manchester its more important than ever to get vaccinated. No appointment is needed. You can find out more about the MMR vaccination and participating pharmacies across Greater Manchester by MMR available in pharmacies | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership
Published on 30th Oct 2024
NWAS Help for Common Winter Illnesses
Each year, North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) experiences a surge in demand for their services during the colder months, and last winter was no exception. The NHS 111 service received nearly 60,000 calls related to common winter ailments such as sore throats, earaches, and rashes.
To help keep the lines free for those who need help the most, NWAS has created a self-help leaflet filled with practical tips and advice for managing minor, non-emergency, health concerns at home. This leaflet offers tips on how to soothe symptoms like a sore throat, earache, or rash, and where to go for further medical advice.
NWAS Help for Common Winter Illnesses Leaflet
Published on 30th Oct 2024
Infection, Prevention & Control (IPC) Annual Statement
Published on 25th Oct 2024
Helping Bolton Stay Healthy for Winter
Bolton GP Federation Mobile Health Hive services are making a return to Bolton streets, offering health checks, vaccines and advice and guidance. Clinics will also be hosted by some of Bolton’s community and voluntary groups.
These services will also continue to be offered from the Health Hive in Market Place.
Additional to the Covid vaccine, both the Health Hive and mobile Health Hive are also offering additional health checks and cancer screening advice and guidance alongside the MMR vaccine to anyone eligible.
To find out more and keep up to date on when and where the clinics will take place, visit Community Health – Bolton GP federation
Say yes to a free health check.pdf
Published on 4th Oct 2024
BMA guidance on safe working
We will be looking to follow the British Medical Association (BMA) guidance regarding safe working. This will mean that we will be delivering a maximum of 25 appointments per day per full time working GP.
We will be extending our GP appointments to 15 minutes, which means as a practice we can reduce the need for repeated consultations with patients whilst still preserving quality of care, excellent service and patient satisfaction. This is in order to remain at safe levels for clinicians and patients.
If we hit our full capacity, this may mean that we will signpost patients to other services i.e. NHS 111, our of hours services etc. Anything deemed as serious medical emergency would be signposted to the Accident & Emergency department or 999, if applicable.
Published on 3rd Sep 2024
Join our Patient Participation Group
JOIN OUR PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP relaunch 2023-24
Published on 3rd Sep 2024
Flu Vaccination Programme 2024
There are some changes to the Flu vaccination programme this year. This will be offered out in 2 groups.
From 1 September 2024, the vaccination will be offered out by the GP practice to:
- pregnant women
- all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2024
- all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
Please note - primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) & secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) will be offered this through the school nursing programme. The GP practice can only offer to these age groups if they are in a clinical risk group, for example, asthmatic, diabetic etc.
From 3 October 2024, the GP practice will offer the vaccination to:
- those aged 65 years and over
- those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
- those in long-stay residential care homes
- carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
- close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants
We will be contacting eligible patients from August 2024 to offer the vaccine.
For more information click - Flu vaccine - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Published on 6th Aug 2024
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine for pregnant women and 75-79 year olds
What is RSV?
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system. RSV infection is common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people
From 1st September 2024, NHS England have introduced a RSV vaccine.
Almost all older adults will have had several RSV infections during their life. A single dose of vaccine will help to boost protection as you reach an age group at highest risk of serious RSV infection.
For pregnant women, the vaccine will be offered on or after they are 28 weeks pregnant.
Please see leaflet for more information:
RSV vaccine and pregnancy leaflet
Published on 6th Aug 2024