Our May 2025 Patient Newsletter is ready and you can read it here Here's what we've included this month:

• Celebrating Di Lord's 45 Years of Nursing
• Congratulations to Jen Lande - For completing her GPN (General Practice Nursing) Fundamentals Course
• Nurses Day 12th of May - Thank you to Our Amazing Nursing Team
• Farewell and Best Wishes to our Physitian Associate Betsy Worthley
• May Bank Holidays: Order your Prescription Early!
• Asthma Awareness Month
• World Hypertension Day - 17th of May
• Thinking About Quitting Vaping? 

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Our April 2025 Patient Newsletter is ready and you can read it here Here's what we've included this month:

• NHS England Closure: What This Means for GP Practices and Patients
• COVID-19 Spring Booster: Appointments Still Available at The Hall Practice
• Debt and Mental Health: Finding Support
• The Benefits of Volunteering
• The Parents Portal by Autism Early Support
• Easter Bank Holiday Opening Hours: Order Your Prescription Early

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Our March 2025 Patient Newsletter is ready and you can read it here Here's what we've included this month:

• Repeat Prescription Process: Patient Participation Group (PPG) Survey Results
• Introducing our New GP: Dr Kieran McCartney-Patel
• Breast Screening: Why it Matters
• Maternal Vaccines: Recommended vaccines during pregnancy
• Bowel Cancer Screening Programme: What you need to know
• COVID-19 Spring Booster 2025

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Our February 2025 Patient Newsletter is ready and you can read it here Here's what we've included this month:

• Long-Term Conditions Feedabck Review
• Patient Experience Questionnaire - PPG (Patient Participation Group) Survey Results
• World Cancer Day - 4 February 2025
• LGBT+ History Month
• Finding Help this Winter - A Guide to Support Services in Buckinghamshire
• Heart Month - An Initiative from British Heart Foundation
• Meet the Team - Dr Rachel Amess and Hayley Goodall HCA

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Our January 2025 Patient Newsletter is ready and you can read it here Here's what we've included this month:

• Warm Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year
• 2024 in Numbers: Key Stats from our Busy Surgery
• Dry January Campaign
• Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
• Protect your Hearing. Protect your Memory: How can we Reduce your Risk of Dementia?
• Meet the Team: Gerrie McManus and Fatima Clifton

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We are now offering all patients an option of support in getting set up and using online apps. The NHS App allow you to complete tasks online without having to ring the surgery, like booking some routine appointments, looking at your medical record and test results, requesting prescriptions, checking your referral and many more!

By using the digital assistant, you will be able to access step by step guides on how to download and/or use functionalities within our online apps.

You can check out the digital assistant here

We have moved!! Our long-awaited move to the health centre building next door has gone ahead as planned! We look forward to providing care for you in our fantastic new premises.

For further information about the move please see the link below:

https://www.thehallpractice.co.uk/the-hall-practice---new-premises

Service currently suspended temporarily. FedBucks who operate the service are looking for an alternative location.

🚨Emergency test alert will be sent to mobile phones at 3pm on Sunday 23 April. The new government Emergency Alerts system will be used to let you know about emergency situations (like severe flooding) through your mobile phone. However, the alert will be accompanied by a loud sound even if your phone is on silent. The link below shows how you can turn alerts off, both on Android phones and on iPhones.

How emergency alerts work

Managing Emergency Alerts on your phone to stay safe if you’re experiencing domestic abuse

Refuge have information on securing your devices – for example your location settings or privacy settings – on https://refugetechsafety.org/

💉COVID-19 Spring Booster Vaccine 2023: The Hall Practice and The Allan Practice will be running joint clinics at Calcot Medical Centre on Saturday 22 April and Saturday 29 April to deliver the booster vaccination. If you are over 75 please call 119 to book your vaccine appointment slot. Our team will be delivering to our housebound and care home patients over the next 4 weeks.

A guide to the COVID-19 spring booster 2023

🎗️ April is Bowel Cancer Awareness month. Bowel cancer is the 4th most common type of cancer. Screening can help find it at an early stage, when it's easier to treat. Regular NHS bowel cancer screening reduces the risk of dying from bowel cancer and is offered to everyone aged 60 - 74 years every 2 years. The programme is expanding so that everyone aged 50 to 59 years will be eligible for screening. This is happening gradually over 4 years and started in April 2021 with 56 year olds. People over 75 can request a kit by calling the helpline. See link below for further information:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/ 

www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/

🚑 The Hall Practice will be closed on the afternoon of Wednesday 19 April for staff training. If you need urgent assistance during that time please call 111 or visit 111 online. Call 999 in an emergency.

Hoping the weather cheers up over the weekend!

Dr Nicola Turner, Dr Katherine Yeomans, Ruth Franklin, Dr Jasraj Panesar & The Hall Practice Team