Month: August 2023

Dr Graham retired as a GP at Queens Road Surgery on the 31^st August 2023, after being with the Practice for 17 years.

We would like to wish him all the best for the future and thank him for all his hard work and dedication over the years.

Please be aware following the government announcement yesterday that Covid vaccines will be offered from 11 September to certain patients, that we cannot make appointments for this yet as we don’t know when we will get supplies.

Once we know when our vaccines will be delivered we will arrange a clinic and invite eligible patients in.

Thanks for your patience

We will be holding our first flu vaccine clinics on:

Saturday 23 September and Saturday 30 September.

These clinics will be by appointment only, and you will be given a time frame to attend. We will be sending  out invitations over the next few days to patients who are eligible. When calling to make your appointment please call any day after 2.00 pm when our lines are not so busy. We do expect the telephone lines to be exceptionally busy over the next couple of weeks with patients calling to book their appointments. We ask that you bear this in mind;  our receptionists will be working extremely hard to help everyone.

Please see below the groups who will be eligible for a flu vaccine from 1 September 2023:

• Aged 65 years and over.
• Aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, chapter 19 (Influenza).
• Pregnant women.
• All children who will be aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023.
• Primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6).
• Patients who are  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.
• Patients who are 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 individuals who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants.

Please note the clinics will be running from our main site Queens Road Surgery

Autumn Covid Booster

We do not have confirmation of any delivery dates yet but have been informed the campaign will start in October and finish on the 15^{th of} December 2023. As soon as we have confirmed dates, we will be in touch with patients who are eligible.