2006 Flu Vaccination Programme

October 17th: Our first supplies of flu vaccine have now arrived and we will be arranging clinics to give the vaccine to at risk groups ie

  • people aged 65 or older
  • people who have poor immunity
  • people with conditions such as diabetes, lung disease, kidney disease, heart disease, or liver disease

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Choose and Book

The doctors and our secretarial staff are struggling hard to implement the governments Choose and Book policy for arranging hospital appointments. This has been imposed upon us and as yet is not working well. Please let us know if you have problems with the Choose and Book system so that we can let the administrative staff at the health authority know the details.

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 Childhood Immunisations

A new programme for childhood immunisations came into place on September 4th 2006. The main change to the previous programme is the introduction of a vaccine to protect against pneumococcal infection which can cause serious disease including pneumonia, septicaemia and meningitis. A summary of the new immunisation schedule can be found on our services webpage: Practice Services

More detail can be found at the NHS Immunisation website: http://www.immunisation.org.uk/

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Look out Saga!

Despite rumours to the contrary Dr John Veitch is NOT retiring. ...........YET However he is now only working part time 2 days a week.