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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
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Published on 3rd Sep 2024
Quality Teaching Practice - Gold Award
As a practice we have Year 4 medical students placements. The students attend the practice for a 4 week period to experience general practice. Each year the university carry out an evaluation of the placements. For 2023-24, we have been awarded a Gold Award for excellence in teaching Year 4 students.
Some of the feedback comments were:
- Really good 1-1 support and feedback - Saw lots of patients - Improved confidence.
- The whole team was so friendly and accommodating. All the doctors were very helpful with feedback and support. More opportunities for independent history taking and clinical reasoning than any other placement I've had !
- I really enjoyed this placement - The staff at the surgery are lovely - It's very independent unlike hospital placements which was very helpful for my learning. Really felt like my communication skills and history taking have been improved.
Drs Uddin Anwar Year 4 Gold certificate 2023-24.pdf
Big thank you to the whole practice team for their input with our medical students.
Published on 14th Aug 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
The practice has been approved as a Unified Learning Environment
We are proud that we are a training practice who are involved in training the clinicians of the future.
Halliwell_Surgery_3_ULE Certification
Published on 21st Jun 2024