Announcements
From March 2021 Our telephone calls to and from the practice may be recorded for training purposes.
Extended Access is a local service for local patients offering evening and Saturday appointments with GPs, Nurses and Health Care Assistants. This is not a walk-in service. These will be delivered by a new provider from April 2022.The Extended Access Service is available by appointment only. During normal hours your GP practice may book an appointment for you, subject to availability. You can request an appointment outside of working hours by asking for the extended access service.
We would ask all our patients to exercise caution and play their part in continuing to wear a face mask if you have respiratory symptoms such as runny nose, new cough or sore throat, socially distance and comply with notices and directions when attending SJMC for any treatment. Whilst Goverment guidance has been relaxed in many places - please remember that 'vulnerable patients' may attend the surgery at the same time as those categorised as unwell but not 'clinically viulnerable' to the effects of Covid 19 infections.
Covid -Certification
Please see the Gov.uk website for further information. Proof of your vaccination status will be available on the NHS app, which is also valuable for accessing your health records and ordering repeat prescriptions. The NHS app can be downloaded from Play store or Apple store. Alternatively, you can call the NHS helpline on 119 and ask for a letter to be posted to you. This must be at least 5 days after you’ve completed your course of the vaccine, the letter may to take up to 5 days to reach you. For further information and up to date Goverment Guidance - Please Visit the Corona Virus page in the More information section of the website
IF YOU ARE INVITED INTO THE PRACTICE FOR A FACE TO FACE CONSULTATION PLEASE WEAR A MASK OR FACE COVERING IF YOU HAVE RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS SUCH AS RUNNY NOSE, NEW COUGH OR SORE THROAT.
This practice holds medical records containing data which is strictly confidential. We as a practice will comply with this new piece of EU regulation which comes into effect on the 25th May 2018. This has been designed to update existing data protection legislation. Its main aim is to unify data privacy and security. The GDPR regulations ensure that we as a practice keep and maintain up-to-date records of the data flows from our practice to healthcare professionals involved in your healthcare.
Please be assured that we will continue to actively request consent from you on all occasions where others request access to your clinical record. We have robust data protection policies and procedures in place. More information is available on our Privacy policy page. We will no longer charge patients for access to medical records (save in exceptional circumstances).
The designated Data Protection Officer at the practice is Dr N Khwaja.
We have been advised via local pharmacies that there are supply or manufacturing issues on a number of medicines. This situation is beyond our control and is likely to result in some disruption to patients but we are working to keep this to a minimum.
