We at Rowlands Road Surgery need your help so that we can continue to keep the practice open and to be able to offer our services to you, the patients.
For the latest and most up-to-date coronavirus information please visit nhs.uk/coronavirus
Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms
Stay at home if you have either:
- a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.
NHS 111 online coronavirus service
Use the 111 online coronavirus service to find out what to do. Only call 111 if you cannot get help online.
Sick Notes
If you are requesting a sick note to cover a period of absence from work due to coronavirus potential symptoms or self-isolation requirements, this is obtained via NHS 111 Isolation Note request
If you have had surgery or have been in hospital or fracture clinic, the sick note should be provided by the hospital team.
How can you help us to help you?
Please be aware we will be attempting to reduce footfall in the practice in the coming weeks so that we can attempt to limit the spread of the virus to both protect our patients and staff. To do this we are making a few temporary changes to the system:
- We will only ask people to come to the surgery if it is absolutely essential for them to be seen. The vast majority of consultations will be done over the telephone
- We hope that you use the Patient Access app on your phone or via the online website. If you do not, we will be encouraging you to both sign up to be able to do this, and mandating that all patients nominate a pharmacy that we can send their prescription to on completion. This will mean you will not need to come back into the surgery
- We are encouraging you to either request your urgent appointments through our website or on the phone. Please do not come into the surgery to request an appointment or anything else unless absolutely necessary.
We will do our best to keep the practice running as normal as is possible, but to do this we will need your help with the things mentioned above. We also ask for your understanding that the Practice is going to come under a lot of pressure, so to please only get in touch with us if you feel it is absolutely necessary
Useful links
Doctors of the World are really pleased to be able to share with you Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice for patients in different languages, which were produced in partnership with the British Red Cross, Migrant Help and Clear Voice:
SEE BELOW for all languages
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বোাংলো BENGALI
ह िंदी
کورونا وائرس (Covid19)سے متعلق رہنمائ.
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Latest News... February 2020
Public Health Advice to People Currently Resident in the UK
Travellers from Wuhan and Hubei Province
If you have travelled from Wuhan or Hubei Province to the UK in the last 14 days you should immediately:
- stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu
- call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the area
Please follow this advice even if you do not have symptoms of the virus.
Travellers from elsewhere in China
If you have travelled from elsewhere in China (but not Macao or Hong Kong) to the UK in the last 14 days and develop symptoms of cough, fever or shortness of breath, you should immediately:
- stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu
- call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the country
Please follow this advice even if your symptoms are minor.
Coronavirus Public Information Poster
Latest News... February 2019
A climate of doubt about vaccine safety is putting lives at risk, experts warn
A growing anti-vaccine movement in Europe, fuelled by social media and anti-establishment populists, is putting lives at risk and may be to blame for measles outbreaks surging to a 20-year high, health experts are warning.
A fresh Guardian analysis of WHO data shows that measles cases in Europe will top 60,000 this year - more than double that of 2017 and the highest this century. There have been 72 deaths, twice as many as in 2017.
Health experts warn that vaccine sceptics are driving down immunisation rates for measles, HPV against cervical cancer, flu and other diseases - and that their opinions are increasingly being amplified by social media and by rightwing populists equally sceptical of medical authorities.
The European Union’s health commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis, accused rightwing populist politicians of irresponsibility, peddling “fake news” about vaccine safety and stoking the climate of doubt.Andriukaitis, a former heart surgeon, said he was very worried, adding: “Not just me – all of scientific society is concerned – epidemiologists, paediatricians, infectious disease experts and a lot of health ministers.“It is unimaginable that we have deaths because of measles – children dying because of measles. We promised that by 2020 Europe would be measles free.”
Seth Berkley, the head of the global vaccine alliance Gavi, said scepticism was as infectious as a disease. He said: “It is very hard to inoculate against, given there is no stable authority in the world right now, where institutions and facts are being questioned routinely and lying is OK.”.
“We’re in a very vulnerable place right now,” said Heidi Larson, the director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
“There’s more hyperbole in the US. But I don’t know a country in the world that doesn’t have some questioning going on,” she said. Different vaccines trigger opposition in different countries, from MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) to the flu vaccine to HPV against the virus that causes most cervical cancers.
The World Health Organization, the EU and the US have all set up groups to investigate the causes of vaccine hesitancy and look for ways to help reassure people. Larsen said: “The reason WHO changed their tune about how important and serious this is was because they had so many member states coming to them and saying: can you help us.
Populist rightwing politicians, from the US to Italy, Poland and France, have jumped on the anti-vaccine bandwagon, supporting the sceptics and championing the right of parents not to immunise their children in countries where it is mandatory before starting school.
PLEASE CLICK THE BELOW LINK FOR THE FULL ARTICLE.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/21/measles-cases-at-highest-for-20-years-in-europe-as-anti-vaccine-movement-grows
Latest News - September 2018
Times are changing
Times are changing Evening and weekend appointments are available from mid-September 2018 at Harlequin Surgery for patients who are registered with Rowlands Road Surgery:
Appointments must be booked in advance through your own GP practice and are available with a range of clinicians including GPs, nurses and health care assistants.
Appointments will be available:
Monday 6.30pm - 8pm
Tuesday 6.30pm - 8pm
Wednesday 6.30pm - 8pm
Thursday 6.30pm - 8pm
Friday 6.30pm - 8pm
Saturday morning only
Sunday not available
Harlequin Surgery 160 Shard End Crescent, Shard End, B34 7BP
Times are changing information leaflet
Latest News - August 2018
Latest News - May 2018
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