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Awards...
John Havard has come second in the NHS Alliance’s President’s Award, which recognises excellence in areas of primary care that get little recognition, and is also a runner up in the Health Service Journal Patient Centred Care Award.
These awards recognise John’s work to make an impact on specific targets in both chronic disease and public health. This includes the development of a simple but striking four page leaflet for patients with COPD. The leaflet uses a traffic light system to highlight the action that patients need to take to combat exacerbations of their COPD and 12,000 have been distributed throughout Suffolk.
John also developed a leaflet aimed at combating obesity and smoking among teenagers. Recognising that teenagers can be a difficult group to engage, they were involved in every stage of the development of the leaflet. A small group of local teenagers were involved in developing the initial leaflet, this was then sent to 50 local schools for their comments and feedback offering two £100 prizes for the schools that offered the most help. The feedback showed that teenagers were less concerned with heart disease and cancer than changes to skin and teeth caused by smoking. To see either leaflets please click here
To see the NHS alliance entry click here To see the HSJ entry click here
Flu's 2007 We have now had our flu vaccinations delivered and are holding two Saturday flu clinics on 13/10/07 and 27/10/07. Those patients in an at risk group are entitled to a free vaccination. The at risk groups are:
If you fall into any of the above categories, please telephone reception to make an appointment.
Family Planning Clinics
We are pleased to say that after the birth of her third child Nurse Juliet is returning from maternity leave.
Juliet is family planning trained and would be pleased to see you to discuss your contraceptive requirements.
Long acting methods, including the Implanon (contraceptive implant) and coils can be carried out in the surgery, as well as contraceptive pills and injections
Doctors Advice
Dr Havard has had another of his publications in the media. A two page spread was featured in the East Anglian this week centering around Dr Havard's new brochure aimed at educating teenagers about the dangers of smoking and obesity. The leaflet is called "Stuff for you for life" and can be seen by clicking here. Realising that teenagers dont always heed the advice of "boring authority figures" the leaflet has been designed to make most of its impact with pictures. There is limited text as the pictures speak for themselves. Dr Havard would appreciate feedback whether positive or negative about the leaflet, especially from its target audience - teenagers. Please feel free to contact Dr Havard using the following email address admin@gp-d83053.nhs.uk. All of your comments will be passed to Dr Havard who will try and incorporate ideas into the design of the leaflet.
To read the East Anglian article please click here
We feel it is very important, particularly in a climate of such considerable change within the NHS, that we communicate as well as possible with our patients. We communicate in a number of ways, one of which being our bi-annual newsletters. These are put on reception and dispensary for patients to take away. They are also published here on the website and in the future could possibly be emailed out to patients who would like to receive them.
If you have anything that you think we should put in our newsletters, or have any ideas how we could improve them then please get in contact with us by email and we will do our best to take your ideas on board. Please send your email to admin@gp-d83053.nhs.uk (please put "newsletter" in the subject bar of your email.)
Please click on the past newsletters below Summer 2005 newsletter - click here Winter 2005 newsletter - click here Summer 2006 newsletter - click here Winter 2006 newsletter - click here Spring 2007 newsletter - click here Summer 2007 newsletter - click here Autumn 2007 newsletter - click here
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Breaking News...
Nurse Changes
At the end of August our senior practice nurse, Fin, retired. She had worked at the practice for 17 years and will be greatly missed. Lynn Williams has now been promoted to Senior Nurse to fill the role left by Fin.
Ruth Osborne, who has been covering Juliet’s maternity leave, is now staying on permanently to complete our nursing team. Ruth has taken over responsibility for asthma and COPD
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We are please to welcome back Dr Murphy, who is now working on a part time basis.
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The cost of NHS prescriptions has increased as of 1st April 2007 to £6.85 per item. Please click here for a full list of new NHS charges.
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As a practice we do a lot of shredding of paper and card due to confidentiality. If anyone would like our shredded paper, for animal bedding etc, then please contact the practice manager. We would welcome to help with our recycling!
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Due to our constant battle with space we have recently had a rethink. We have changed our clinic room into a second treatment room. This will mean that two nurses can run treatment sessions when required.
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The phlebotomists have now moved into the Health Visitors room at the back of the waiting room. This will free up more room for clinics.
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