Additional Polio Clinics for 5-9 year olds

POP-UP POLIO VACCINATION CLINIC
Where? Lambeth Civic Centre SW2 1EG (3 minutes from Brixton station)
For who? All children aged 5-9
• 14th September – 16th September, 15.15 – 18.30
• 21st September – 23rd September, 15.15 – 18.30
• 24th September, 11.00 – 16.00
NO BOOKING NEEDED – JUST TURN UP AND WAIT YOUR TURN! To explore all available vaccination sites for Polio, please see here

Childhood vaccinations Q&A for parents

For parents of children getting their vaccinations can have their questions answered by London clinicians and UK Health Security Agency experts.

Join the Q&A session on Tuesday 13 September 2022 from 13:00 to 14:00. Find out more and register.

Bowel Cancer Screening

Your next poo could save your life

We are supporting a London-wide campaign to encourage more patients to do their free NHS bowel cancer screening home test, which checks if you could have bowel cancer.

People who are the right age are sent a free NHS FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) kit every two years. You use it to collect a small sample of poo and post it back to an NHS lab.

The campaign by NHS London, “Your next poo could save your life”, urges more people to use their kit – a message we wholeheartedly endorse.

Screening can help prevent bowel cancer and find it at an early stage when it’s easier to treat. People who complete their screening are 25% less likely to die of bowel cancer.

The kits are for people with no symptoms and most people get the all-clear.

If you are aged 56, 58 (on or after 16 May 2022) or 60 to 74 and we have your correct address, you will be sent a kit every 2 years. Please use it. By April 2025, bowel cancer screening kits will be for everyone aged 50 to 74 in England.

To find out more and hear from other Londoners about their experience of bowel cancer screening, visit www.healthylondon.org/bcs If you have symptoms of bowel cancer which last for three weeks or more, please contact the practice and ask for an appointment.

The Practice will close at 12.30pm on 7.9.22 for staff training

The Practice will close at 12.30pm on 7.9.2022 for staff training and it will reopen on 8.09.2022 at 8.00am.

For any URGENT reasons which cannot wait while we will be closed for training please call 020 8175 0143, and you will speak to a GP who will assess your problem and arrange appropriate care. For any non-urgent problems please visit our practice website and click on the online consultation link where your query will be dealt with when the practice re-opens.

In a medical emergency, please telephone 999 or for advice, telephone 111

If you have a prearranged appointment at The Well Centre, please enter the lobby and call the intercom for one of their staff members.

Thank you.

Herne Hill Group Practice