Coronavirus Advice

If you suspect you have Coronavirus, or have been in contact with someone who has Coronavirus, please click the link below for further advice.
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Welcome to Southmead Surgery

We are a forward-thinking, village practice, offering a personal and accessible service to promote your wellbeing and support your health needs

We are currently accepting new patients.
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Online Patient Triage

To access our Online Patient Triage system click the link below.
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News at Southmead

We are sorry to announe that as of 01 August 2019 our minor surgery service will no longer be available.
GP Training Practice

We are a GP training practice and regurarly have qualified doctors working with us undertaking post graduate training in General Practice.
Repeat Prescriptions

Repeat prescriptions for patients on long term treatment can be ordered via online patient services or in writing via the wooden box in the surgery foyer. We do not accept third party prescription requests or requests via email or telephone. We use the Electronic Prescribing Services (EPS) as do all our local pharmacies.
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How To Help Us Help You

PLEASE keep your contact details up to date, especially your mobile number.

PLEASE cancel appointments if no longer required.

PLEASE register for online patient services to request medication and book appointments online.
Appointments

We offer a mix of pre-book and on-the-day urgent appointments. Pre-book appointments can be made up to a month in advance by speaking to a receptionist. Appointments for GPs, our minor injury / illness clinic and phlebotomist (blood tests) can also be made via online patient services.
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Clinics & Services

We offer a range of enhanced services at the practice. including minor surgery, joint injections, travel vaccinations and contraceptive coil / implant fitting.
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COVID 19 Vaccine

UPDATED: 26th February 2021

We now have a confirmed delivery of COVID vaccines & will be holding an immunisation clinic on Friday 5th March. We are starting to call Group 6. Please do not call us, we will contact you when it is your turn.

Please note:

We are being inundated with individual queries from patients about Covid vaccinations and vaccination priority groups, and this is taking a large amount of administrative time.Please can we kindly ask that you refer to our website for information about vaccinations and read the below information and only email us back if you feel your question is not covered, making this clear in your email.

We will aim to keep you notified here of when our next delivery is expected and which vaccination group we will be calling in next.For more information about the order of priority for vaccinations please see

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-care-home-and-healthcare-settings-posters/covid-19-vaccination-first-phase-priority-groups#fnref:1

For more detail regarding the long term medical conditions that are included in the group 6 ‘at-risk’ group please see the below link. Of note, for asthmatics it is only those who require continuous or repeated use of oral steroids or with previous exacerbations requiring hospital admission who are eligible in the group 6 cohort. All other asthmatics will be vaccinated according to their age group.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/961287/Greenbook_chapter_14a_v7_12Feb2021.pdf

Please note that Covid vaccination priority groups are strictly determined by clinical history. The computer searches pick up relevant information in your medication record including age, medication, and medical conditions to determine your grouping. Please do not contact us about your group unless you feel we are unaware of a medical diagnosis you may have, or medication you are taking, that may affect your vaccination priority group.If you are a health or social care worker, and do not believe this is coded in your notes, please email us, attaching current proof of your current place of work / voluntary organisation.Please note informal carers e.g. family members, will be called in with group 6 – if you are an adult carer either in receipt of a carer’s allowance, or who is the MAIN carer of an elderly or disabled person, whose welfare may be at risk if you fall ill, and you are NOT on our carer’s register, please contact the surgery and ask to speak to our social prescriber Jane Quince (Monday-Thursday).

COVID - How to Self Manage Recovery:

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OH-090.20-Post-COVID-Leaflet.pdf

Post COVID Mental Helath Issues:

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/publication/coronavirus/

SOUTHMEAD SURGERY - Although the door is locked, we have remained open throughout the year and will continue to do so.

It is with regret that we have to publish the statement below:

Southmead Surgery is committed to doing everything possible to protect staff, patients and visitors from unacceptable behaviour, and has a 'zero tolerance' attitude of any incident that causes hurt, alarm, or distress.

Our practice staff are here to help you. Shouting or swearing or use of abusive or offensive language at practice staff will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Patients who are abusive will be removed from the practice list and will have to register with another GP Practice.

Furthermore, the practice will not hesitate to take legal action or inform the police whenever it is appropriate to do so.

The whole of the NHS, and especially GP surgeries are working under unprecedented levels of patient demand and expectation. We hope that patients will agree that our staff are our most valuable asset, and that verbal abuse or aggression is unacceptable.

Thank you very much in anticipation of your understanding.

Our Online Patient Triage system is now live!

Please click here to access the service.

CORONAVIRUS

SOUTHMEAD SURGERY is now in a phase of lock-down due to the COVID-19 pandemic to protect vulnerable patients and health care staff.

The majority of consultations will take place over the phone. If you think your condition will need to be seen face to face then please call BEFORE 10am.

We are offering routine appointments, for example smears, coils and long term conditions.

You may be asked to wait at different entrances to the building. Please do not arrive early.
We will take your temperature before allowing you into the building.

To obtain an isolation note please follow the following link

https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note

The majority of consultations will take place over the phone.

If you are dropping off a prescription request – please post it through the letter box on the side door (left hand side of building).

PLEASE DO NOT ORDER YOUR MEDICATION MORE THAN 14 DAYS IN ADVANCE, IT WILL BE REJECTED & THE REQUEST KEPT UNTIL IT IS DUE.

PLEASE DO NOT ORDER INHALERS IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD ONE IN THE LAST YEAR.

ALL prescriptions will be sent directly to the chemist – you will NOT be allowed into the building to collect a prescription. If you have not nominated a chemist it will be sent to Lloyds in Farnham Common as the default.

All letter correspondence will either be emailed or posted out to you – you will NOT be allowed into the building to collect paperwork.

IF YOU SUSPECT YOU MAY BE SUFFERING FROM CORONAVIRUS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU ISOLATE YOURSELF & VISIT 111.NHS.UK

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