✈Covid 19 Vaccine Travel Verification✈

Please note it has been advised that GP’s or other Health & Social Care organisations are not able to issue letters to the agreed standard for travel purposes.

Please do not contact the surgery requesting a letter to confirm you have been vaccinated for travel purposes as it cannot be done.

Chronic Pain

Do you suffer from Chronic Pain?   See contact details below from ‘Better Days Pain Support Programme’.

Better Days Pain Support Programme

COVID VACCINE UPDATE

As we have limited vaccine supply we will continue to prioritise 2nd doses.  Anyone within the age cohorts looking for a vaccine should book at vaccination centres or participating Pharmacies.

Contact details for vaccination centres is available on NI Direct  – Get a Covid-19 vaccination in Northern Ireland/NIDirect  or 0300 200 7813, map and contact details for participating pharmacies is available at Pharmacy Covid Vaccinations.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please do not contact the Practice for first doses as we have none available

‘Your Post COVID-19 Recovery Plan’

Please find attached ‘Your Post COVID-19 Recovery Plan’ booklet which has been developed to support people recovering from COVID, whether they were hospitalised or remained at home.    It offers information and advice on the physical, emotional and mental aspects of recovery.

Also attached is a Keeping well at home booklet

Keeping Well at Home Dv.01-HSCNI 16 September 2020-WEB

COVIDSurvivorsBooklet

Patient Access

To request your unique code to log onto Patient Access please complete the following consent  form.

Allow 5 working days for your codes to be emailed.

Covid Vaccinations – Updated 02/03/21

Click on following link to book your vaccine at Foyle Arena: https://vaccinations.covid-19.hscni.net/booking

Latest update

We wish to give you advanced notice that the current NHS plan is for patients to receive their second vaccination at the same site as their first vaccination. This will mean that those patients who were vaccinated at Templemore Sports Complex will still need to attend there for their second dose. Any patients who received their vaccine here at the surgery will get their second dose here. We expect to start providing second vaccinations towards the end of March. Please refer to the date and time on your card that you were provided with when you got your first vaccination.

We have tried contacting all patients in Cohorts 1 – 5. If you are in one of these cohorts and still wanting the vaccination please contact the surgery or alternatively you can contact the Foyle Arena to book your vaccine.

Currently as per HSCNI Guidance we are contacting patients in group 6. All invites will be sent via text message or telephone call. Please do not attend any of our clinics if you have not received an invite. Any patients attending without an invite will be turned away as otherwise there would be insufficient vaccines for those that have been booked.

Please advise us if we should use a different telephone number to contact you.

Reduced Service Capacity

Please be advised that due to GP Sickness, GP’s covering in Covid Clinic and the Practice Covid Vaccination clinic we are currently running at a lower capacity than usual. This means that we have fewer appointments available and some of our administrative tasks such as prescription processing may take a little longer than normal. We thank you for your patience at this time.

Please treat our staff with respect

Recently we have been having increasing occasions where patients are being rude and abusive to our staff, including our Receptionists, Nurses and Health Care Assistants. Our surgery is working under unprecedented strain at the moment due to excessive demand and a reduction in capacity because of Covid precautions. All our team try their best to help but sometimes solutions are not immediately available.

Please treat our staff with the respect they deserve as they have worked very hard throughout this whole Covid crisis and are continuing to do so under very different conditions.

Thank you