Woodlands Medical Practice

For patients who require appointments outside business hours, the surgery is now offering the following appointments:

• Alternate Monday and Wednesday evenings 6.30 – 7.45 PM

Please be considerate when booking these appointments.

Please Note that from June 2015 all practices are required to provide their patients with a named GP who will have overall responsibility for the care and support that the surgery provides.

You should have received a text message informing you of your Named GP.

If not, please contact the Practice and the receptionists will be more than happy to assist you.

You are still free to see ANY GP in the practice, as you currently do.

To enable us to send you a text reminder for your appointment, please ensure we have your correct mobile phone number.  This is a no reply service and replies to this service will NOT be monitored

We are now offering the following vaccinations to eligible patients:

Whooping Cough (pregnant women >28 weeks)

MMR (patients aged 16-43 who have not had the complete course ie two injections)

Shingles (70&79 year olds)

The Electronic Prescription Service enables prescribers – such as GPs and practice nurses – to send prescriptions electronically to a dispenser (such as a pharmacy) of the patient’s choice. This makes the prescribing and dispensing process more efficient and convenient for patients and staff. You may still order your normal repeats online or in the surgery however the prescription will go direct to your pharmacy without a paper copy.

If you have a regular pharmacy please sign a disclosure with them so we can start sending them your prescriptions electronically. Please visit the link below for more information or speak to a member of staff at the surgery.

http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/eps/patients

We will soon be required to supply your personal and confidential medical information to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). This information will be taken from the practice in a form that can identify you. The Practice has NO choice but to allow the HSCIC to extract information. However, individual patients can instruct their Practice to stop the transfer of their data. For more information on the reasons for data extraction and how to opt out of sending your confidential information ask the receptionist for a leaflet or go to:

• http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/scr
• http://www.nhscarerecords.nhs,uk/faqs