Dawley Medical Matters

Dawley Medical Matters Newsletter - Summer 2014

FLU In Dawley just in May, 129 order medication early, just patients DNA’d. mark the reason on the One particularly bad day request – (for example, was the afternoon of going on holiday). We’ve not even had Tuesday 6th when the summer yet but staff at nurses lost TWO HOURS Prescriptions can be Dawley Medical Practice of surgery time. Four ordered by dropping the are already gearing up for double and four single request slip into the the flu season! appointments were surgery, asking a local Hundreds of vaccines have missed. Those double slots pharmacy to drop the slip been ordered and the could have been used by in or registering online. For practice is planning patients needing their ears online prescriptions log another massive syringed or a smear test. If onto immunisation clinic. This you can’t make an year it’ll be on Saturday appointment, please take a www.dawleymedicalpractice .co.uk 27th September and this couple of minutes to ring in time it’s hoped to get more and cancel. and follow the registration than a 1,000 patients *** process. through the doors. Booking Online Booking *** is expected to open in The service has been August. running for about six Did you know? So watch this space!! weeks and is going well. *** So far there have been no For every pound in weight Dr Parrish missed appointments and you put on you add 7 miles The countdown is on for the practice is looking at of blood vessels to your senior partner Dr Parrish! offering more slots. body! It’s because the new It’s now less than five It is also possible to book tissue needs a blood months till he retires. with the nurses but ONLY supply so your vascular system expands to An advert will shortly be for specific clinics such as going into the professional asthma or diabetic. accommodate it. Lose a journals as the hunt for a Unfortunately patients are pound and your body will partner gets underway. booking routine absorb the unwanted *** appointments in these slots vessels. *** Did You Know? and the service may have to be withdrawn if the Travel Jabs facility is misused. *** Repeat Medication Watermelon might be the Please allow 48 hours for unofficial fruit of summer – If you’re planning a trip repeat prescriptions to be but it’s actually a abroad this year, allow at processed. Staff are under vegetable! least six weeks for any strict instructions from the 700 Million Pounds travel vaccinations. doctors NOT to take Travellers need to find out That’s how much is wasted requests over the what’s recommended by every year in the NHS by telephone. If you need to patients not turning up! logging onto the travel The secretaries are there is now one strain of website available between 2.00pm- bacteria for which no drug www.masta.org 5.00pm every day to help is available. with queries about No antibiotic cover could This information should be referrals, hospital mean things like heart brought along to a double appointments or insurance surgery won’t be possible appointment which has reports. in the future. been booked with one of *** the practice nurses. Option 1 is for Open Access appointments and home A reminder of the open Travel leaflets are also visits access surgery every available from reception. Option 2 is for the weekday morning. secretaries So long as you present *** Option 3 is for yourself at reception Are you over 75? prescriptions (between BEFORE 10.00am you will You may have seen media 2.00pm – 4.00pm) be seen by a doctor. reports about a new Option 4 is for results (after Afternoon appointments scheme which allocates 2.00pm) can be booked but may not each patient aged 75 years be available for a couple of or over a named GP who is And staying with phones – weeks. The open surgery responsible for their overall have we got your is the quickest way of care. up-to-date number? seeing a doctor. Patients booking *** Although everyone aged appointments are being Finally…… 75 or over will have a offered text reminders – Did you know? named GP, patients are immediately the still free to see whichever appointment is made and doctor they choose. then another 48hours before the scheduled time. *** *** It’s no wonder people have Did you know? Welcome….. smelly feet! to Dr Salman Islam! We sweat buckets from He will be working at the them! practice until August as A pair of feet has 50,000 part of his postgraduate sweat glands and training to gain experience The human nose may not can produce more than a in General Practice. be as sensitive as a dog’s pint of fluid every day! Dr Islam studied medicine but it can still remember *** in the Czech Republic and 50,000 different scents!! is fluent in Czech. *** *** Antibiotics Useless! Phones A plea to make sure you select the correct option if you’re trying to get through That’s not quite the case at to the practice on the the moment but according telephone! to experts that could be the headline in less than 20 Unfortunately messages years! Antibiotics are fast are being left on the becoming ineffective as the secretaries answer bacteria they’re supposed machine for things like to fight mutate quicker than prescriptions or home visits new medication can be and they may not be developed. Apparently picked up in time.