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Flu and Covid Vaccinations

Please contact the surgery to check if you are eligible and current booking arrangement for vaccinations.

Try the NHS App

If you’re a patient at our practice, you can use the NHS App to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.

It doesn’t replace existing services. You can still contact us in the usual ways.

But, once you have verified your identity in the app, you will have easy, 24/7 access to a growing range of health services and information. You can: 

  • order repeat prescriptions
  • access NHS 111 online
  • find NHS services
  • view your health records
  • book appointments
  • and much more… 

If you have any problems using the NHS App, you can select ‘help’ in the top right-hand corner of the app or visit nhs.uk/helpmeapp.

GP Extended Hours Service

Greater access to medical support. Extra same day and routine appointments are available locally with GP Care Wakefield. 

GP Care Wakefield is an extension of your GP practice and offers appointments with GPs, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Available 

Weekdays 5pm - 9.30pm

Saturdays 9am-5pm

Sundays and bank holidays 9am - 3pm

To get help, just call the GP surgery during these times and you will be diverted to the service.

Flu and Covid Injections

We have flu and Covid Injections clinics starting from October 2022. Please contact the practice to book into these clinics if you are eligible.

Common Illnesss & Injuries

For information about many common illnesses and injuries, symptoms and treatments, and advice about what to do, when to get help and which NHS service to use, visit the NHS website: nhs.uk.

Some pharmacies will be open on Monday. You can drop in for expert advice on many common illnesses such as headaches, sore throats and aches and pains, and there is no need to book an appointment.

Pharmacies can also give you help and information on which medicines you can buy over the counter to help manage your illness. To find a pharmacy, visit the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/pharmacy/find-a-pharmacy

SMS Text Messages to your mobile phone

This practice will on occasion wish to use the above service to notify you of:
  • Reminders of appointments.
  • Changes to your booked appointment.
  • National issues such as Flu pandemics.
  • Practice being closed due to unforeseen circumstances.
  • Cancelled or altered clinics including GP, Nurse & Healthcare assistant.
  • Reminders of any reviews or vaccinations due.

If you do not wish to receive any text messages and want to opt out, please inform the practice.

PRACTICE PHARMACIST

Saman and Mobeen are our new PCN Pharamcists. They are both skilled at medication reviews and can answer all types of questions on prescribing and prescriptions.

If the receptionists suggests you see a Pharmacist for a medication review and lifestyle advice, then this is because the practice would like you to do so. She supports us in our prescribing and also helps with audit work and monitoring of prescribing trends.

Practice Pharmacists have now been utilised in many practices nationally over the last few years and are proving to be a very useful resource to practices. You are still free to see the GP for your medication review should you wish, just let the receptionist know.

Dementia Friendly Status

The Practice has been recognised as a Dementia Friendly Practice and has submitted a Action Plan to the Dementia Action Alliance. Further information to help people with Dementia and their carers and to raise awareness of Dementia can be found by clicking on the Dementia Awareness tab below (bottom right)

Services for Young People

Newland Surgery has now been accredited as a Young Persons/Teenage Friendly Practice.

Please click on the 'Clinics and Services' tap at the top for further information.

In Times of Bereavement

In the unfortunate event that a person has passed away, there are three things that must be done in the first few days;

  • Get a medical certificate from your GP or hospital doctor (this is necessary to register the death)
  • Register the death within 5 days (8 days in Scotland). You will then receive the necessary documents for the funeral.
  • Make the necessary funeral arrangements.

Register the death

If the death has been reported to the coroner (or Procurator Fiscal in Scotland) they must give permission before registering the death.

You can register the death if you are a relative, a witness to the death, a hospital administrator or the person making the arrangements with the funeral directors.

You can use the ‘Register a Death’ page on the gov.uk website that will guide you through the process. This will also explain the registration process for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Arrange the funeral

The funeral can usually only take place after the death is registered. Most people use a funeral director, though you can arrange a funeral yourself.

Funeral directors

Choose a funeral director who’s a member of one of the following:

These organisations have codes of practice - they must give you a price list when asked.

Some local councils run their own funeral services, for example for non-religious burials. The British Humanist Association can also help with non-religious funerals.

Arranging the funeral yourself

Contact the Cemeteries and Crematorium Department of your local council to arrange a funeral yourself.

Funeral costs

Funeral costs can include:

  • funeral director fees
  • things the funeral director pays for on your behalf (called ‘disbursements’ or ‘third-party costs’), for example, crematorium or cemetery fees, or a newspaper announcement about the death
  • local authority burial or cremation fees

Funeral directors may list all these costs in their quotes.



 
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