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COVID 19 VACCINE

This practice is continuing to invite patients to have their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at our local Malthouse Surgery site. We are currently inviting patients in priority group 10, and those in the priority groups 1 – 9 who are still to have their first or second dose. Please do not contact us about vaccination appointments. We will send out invitations to book appointments when the vaccine becomes available. Patients outside these groups are asked to wait until their priority group is released nationally.

MASS VACCINATION SITES ARE OPENING UP AND THESE ARE BEING MANAGED NATIONALLY. LETTERS ARE BEING SENT DIRECTLY TO PATIENTS. IF YOU RECEIVE ONE OF THESE LETTERS IT WILL PROVIDE THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO BOOK YOUR VACCINATION AT ONE OF THESE SITES. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO THIS BY PHONE OR ONLINE. THIS MAY MEAN YOU NEED TO TRAVEL FURTHER.

 IF YOU WAIT TO BE CONTACTED BY US AND HAVE YOUR VACCINATION AT YOUR LOCAL SITE WE ARE MAKING REALLY GOOD PROGRESS.

WHICHEVER OPTION YOU CHOOSE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE AWARE THAT YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE YOUR SECOND DOSE AT THE SAME PLACE WHERE YOU HAD YOUR FIRST DOSE AND THIS CANNOT BE CHANGED

THE VACCINE PROGRAMME IS EXTENSIVE AND THE MAJORITY OF ELIGIBLE PATIENTS WILL GET THEIR VACCINE IN 2021. A PRIORITISATION LIST HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY THE NHS DETAILING THE GROUPS OF PATIENTS TO BE VACCINATED FIRST. PRIORITY IS GENERALLY BY AGE AS THIS IS THE BIGGEST RISK FACTOR. 

THE MALTHOUSE SURGERY WILL CONTACT YOU WITH A DATE AND TIME WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO RECEIVE THE VACCINE.  PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US TO SEEK THE VACCINE BEFORE IT IS YOUR TURN, EVERYONE WHO IS ELIGIBLE WILL GET A VACCINE  

THE MALTHOUSE SURGERY HAS REMAINED OPEN AND CONTINUED TO SEE PATIENTS FACE TO FACE WHERE REQUIRED THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC, WITH ALL STAFF WORKING OUT OF THE SURGERY NOT HOME BASED. DUE TO COVID 19 AND THE REQUIREMENT FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING WE ARE LIMITED TO HOW MANY PATIENTS CAN ENTER THE SURGERY.  ONLY CALL THE SURGERY FOR URGENT ON THE DAY APPOINTMENTS WHICH INITIALLY WILL BE A TELEPHONE OR VIDEO CONSULTATION.  FOR ALL ROUTINE APPOINTMENTS PLEASE USE E CONSULT WHICH CAN BE ACCESSED VIA THIS WEBSITE. ANY PATIENT WHO AFTER TRIAGE NEEDS A FACE TO FACE CONSULTATION WILL BE SEEN IN THE SURGERY. MANY PATIENTS ARE BEING SEEN FACE TO FACE WEEKLY WITHIN THE COVID LIMITATIONS PLACED ON US, INCLUDING FOR REGULAR BLOOD TESTS, CHRONIC DISEASE REVIWS ETC.  

EXTENDED HOURS HUB




ABINGDON GP FEDERATION PRACTICES PROVIDE 7 DAY ACCESS TO PATIENTS


DUE TO COVID 19 GPAF IS CURRENTLY SUSPENDED PLEASE USE E CONSULT

Abingdon Federation is Abingdon Surgery, Berinsfield Health Centre, Clifton Hampden Surgery, Long Furlong Medical Centre, Malthouse Surgery  and Marcham Road Health Centre. Available HUB appointments can be booked by any patient from these 6 Practices.

The NHS established the GP Access Fund in 2014 to improve access to general practice and stimulate innovative ways of providing primary care services.


Abingdon Federation, through original members Abingdon Surgery and Malthouse Surgery, has been a participant since 2015 and this additional funding allowed them to introduce; Care Navigators to provide health guidance, signpost patients to support groups\organisations and help navigate through the local healthcare system, e-mail consultations providing patients flexible/wider access to their GP from anywhere and develop my-coach.org.uk, a website which offers patients healthcare support and local information/signposting to health and social care in Oxfordshire.


As a an existing GP Access Fund participant, Abingdon Federation has now been offered and taken on the opportunity to be an early adopter of 7 day primary care.  This will see us providing additional, wider, more flexible access to primary care appointments for all 6 federation practice patients during evenings and at weekends.


Abingdon Surgery, Berinsfield Health Centre, Clifton Hampden Surgery, Long Furlong Medical Centre and Malthouse Surgery will be working as a collective, with each surgery providing extended hours hub services on different days. The new extended service will provide additional appointments 6pm-8pm each evening, Saturday morning and Sunday morning. Patients will need to book appointments through their own surgery weekdays, even if the appointment is in a different Practice.


These appointments will not replace the current urgent 111 service. If patients require an urgent GP appointment outside of the GP Practice core contract hours of 8am-6.30pm weekdays they will need to call 111. The weekend service is for routine appointments not for emergencies or walk-in appointments.


As is well publicised, primary care faces increasing and unprecedented pressures. Abingdon Federation practices are no different and delivering this new 7 day service will be a challenge.  However, working at a larger scale, while staying local to ensure we deliver a service that is focused on our local practice patient needs, we are able to provide this new 7 day service for the benefit of all our patients. 



 
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