Missed Year 9 vaccinations

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COVID-19 vaccination campaign – Spring 2023

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COVID-19 vaccination campaign – Spring 2023

The NHS COVID-19 Spring 2023 vaccination campaign is underway with ‘boosters’ being offered to people aged 75 and over, people with a weakened immune system and residents of care homes for older adults.

Our south east London network of immunisation providers this Spring includes GP surgeries, community pharmacies, NHS provider Trusts and Primary Care Networks.

We are visiting care homes across the area already to administer vaccinations. The NHS is writing to people who are eligible inviting them to book an appointment.

Booking

  • People who are in these categories and therefore eligible can also make a booking now by using the NHS App or visiting nhs.uk/CovidVaccination or by calling 119
  • People aged 5 –  49 who have not received any COVID-19 vaccines, or have had a first but not second  dose can also still get protection. More information on first and second doses and to book appointments: www.nhs.uk/CovidVaccination
  • The final date for appointment for this, and all Spring boosters, is 30 June.
  • Walk-in vaccinations are available in some areas: nhs.uk/vaccine-walk-in

Please help us promote the importance of vaccinations to people aged 75 and above, and those with weakened immune systems and their families, friends and carers.

Resources available to download

 

The Practice will close at 12.30pm on 10.5.23 for staff training

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The Practice will close at 12.30pm on 10.5.23 for staff training and it will reopen on 11.5.23 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

May Bank Holiday Closure 2023

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The practice will be closed

Monday 1st May – Re Open Tuesday 2nd May

Monday 8th May- Re Open Tuesday 9th May

Monday 29th  May – Re Open Tuesday 30th May

For any URGENT reasons which cannot wait while we will be closed  please call 111, 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

Hospital Waiting Times

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Kindly, please follow this link and choose hospital/department to find out their current waiting times.

Additional Polio Clinics for 5-9 year olds

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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

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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

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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.