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Spring 2024 Covid Vaccinations
This spring, Alwoodley Medical Centre will be providing free Covid vaccinations for eligible patients. Please read the below information carefully.
We will be offering Covid vaccines to:
- All patients who are 75 years and over
- Patients aged 18 – 74 years who are clinically “at risk”
- All patients living in an older peoples’ care home (irrespective of age).
For full details of this season’s Covid eligibility please see the Green Book guidance.
(Under 18s – we will not be able to offer Covid vaccines to any eligible under 18 year olds. These patients will need to book to have their Covid vaccine via the National Booking System).
Covid Clinics at Alwoodley Medical Centre
All patients 75 years and over and eligible 18 – 74 year olds (who are immunosuppressed) will be invited to Alwoodley Medical Centre to have their vaccine at one of our Covid vaccination clinics.
Booking Your Covid Jab
- Via a text message (from the Surgery) – eligible patients who have registered their mobile number with us will receive a text message with a link allowing them to book directly into one of our clinics from the text.
- Via NHS APP by bookin into a Covid Booster OVER 75 YRS.
- Patients without a registered mobile number will be sent a letter directing them to book via calling Alwoodley medical centre on 0113 393 0119.
- Dress – patients need to make sure they wear appropriate clothing to allow your upper arm to be easily accessed.
Care Home and Housebound Patients
The Surgery will ensure that all care home residents and housebound patients (75 and over or otherwise eligible) are offered the Covid vaccination. It is likely that we will provide vaccines to care home residents and housebound patients from mid-April to mid-May. We will contact our homes and all eligible housebound residents as soon as we know the dates we will be visiting.
Household contacts of the above are no longer eligible for a Spring vaccination.
Alwoodley Medical centre will be closed for training Thursday 18th April 2024 from 12pm. If you need urgent assistance please call 111 or go to the walk in centre at Shakespeare Medical Centre or St Georges Medical Centre. The surgery will re open Friday 19th April at 8am.
Partners and colleagues at Alwoodley Medical Practice are aware of a number of inaccurate, as well as abusive, comments made on social media about the practice. Alwoodley Medical Practice takes bullying in all forms, face to face or online, very seriously.
We would encourage anyone who has any concerns or queries about our practice to contact us direct, and where necessary, follow the complaints procedure.
NHS services across the North East & Yorkshire region are experiencing extremely high demand at the moment – this includes GP practices, which are extremely busy.
If you need advice for a minor/mild illness or injury, in the first instance, please look at the self-care advice that’s available on-line from the NHS at www.nhs.uk or contact your local pharmacy
- Please watch the following online video to help you choose the most appropriate service for your needs:
- Please read the following to help advise you about NHS services during the Festive Holidays:
- If you want to check your symptoms, there is an on-line symptom checker available at 111.nhs.uk, which will re-direct you to a health professional if you need to be consulted by someone
- The 111 online service is effective and efficient and endorsed by your GP. You will be dealt with more quickly using 111 online than calling 111. Go to 111.nhs.uk
Please reassure patients that they should attend their general practice appointments on industrial actions dates unless contacted and told otherwise.
We are now taking bookings for the FLU VACCINE, Covid boosters will be offered at the same time.
We have several clinics available
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Over 65’s clinic
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Under 65’s clinic
All Flu vaccine appointments can be booked online through the NHS App or Patient access and by calling the surgery.
If you are over 65 you are eligible for a FREE flu vaccine.
If you are under 65 and in an 'clinical at risk' category you will also be able to have a flu vaccine.
Get in touch online, at anytime.
You can contact the practice 24/7 on our website by filling in an online form PATCHS or via the NHS App. Book an appointment, request a
repeat prescription or submit a query at a time that is convenient for you.
Once you get in touch, we'll get back to you within 48 hours.
If this option sounds right for you, speak to one of the team about getting started online or by visiting our PATCHS page and Your GP record online - Alwoodley Medical Centre.
You can also request help by giving the practice a call on 0113 393 0119 or visiting reception during opening hours.
We are open Monday - Tuesday 08:00 - 20:00 Wednesday - Friday 08:00 - 18:00.
When you’re feeling unwell, you want to get advice and help quickly.
Our practice receptionists have had additional training in ‘care navigation’ so they can help you get the right care, faster.
When you call the practice to make an appointment, the receptionist/patient services team may ask you to tell them a bit about why you want to see someone. You don’t need to give lots of detail or tell them anything that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Our reception team/patient services team will never offer clinical advice or triage; this new way of working is about offering you the choice to see the most appropriate professional in the practice team or elsewhere. It will often be quicker and means you may not need to see a GP at all.
By working this way, it helps to free up time for our GPs to care for patients with Complex or serious health conditions that can only be managed by a GP. More importantly though, it means people are seen first by the clinician best able to manage their clinical problem.
"Please don't be offended if you are asked what the problem is when you ring for an appointment. "This is called Care Navigation and it's about helping you get the service you need."
The receptionist/patient services team might suggest you see an alternative professional or service:
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Pharmacy
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Physiotherapy
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Healthy Minds
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Lifestyle Health & Wellbeing
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Social prescribers
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Prescribing Pharmacists
The choice is always yours though, we hope next time you contact your GP and speak to our reception team/Patient services team you will see the value of seeing another health professional if they are able to help.
How does PATCHS work?
PATCHS is an online consultation service that allows you to access GP services quickly and easily.
Register for the service Click here
Alwoodley Medical Centre have launched our new repeat prescription and online GP consultation service, PATCHS, which allows you to request help from your mobile phone without needing to book an appointment. To submit a request Click Here
What should I use PATCHS for?
Anything non-urgent that you need to ask your GP:
- GP consultations (New health problem or ongoing health problem)
- Fit/sick note requests (Admin request)
- Repeat Medications and prescriptions (Medication request)
- Health advice or anything else (Other)
PATCHS is a way to access your GP practice online but like all appointments there are a limited number per day and once the limit for GP requests for appointments has been reached the GP will close PATCHS for the day. You can however still submit medication requests and admin requests.
Once these appointments are filled PATCHS will be closed until the next day. To find out more please click here.