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Repeat Prescriptions – Only Order What You Need

The NHS in Humber and North Yorkshire spends £332 million a year on medicines – and £26 million is wasted when unwanted repeat prescriptions are returned.

These medicines can’t be reused or recycled; they must be destroyed.

How you can help:

• Check before you order – only request what you’re running out of.
• Open your prescription bag – return anything you don’t need before you leave the pharmacy.
• Talk to your pharmacy team – let them know if you’ve stopped taking a medicine.
• Return safely – always bring unused or expired medicines back to the pharmacy, not the bin or sink.

By making these simple changes, you’ll help your NHS, protect the environment, and stay safe.
Check before you order. 

Stay Well. Stay Safe. Stay Green.

Visit the Lets Get Betterwebsite for more information

From the 1st of September we will be offering RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) vaccine to patients who turn 75 and those aged 75-79 years.  This will also be offered to pregnant ladies.

RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including:

• cough
• sore throat
• sneezing
• a runny or blocked nose

It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system. 

RSV infection is common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people.

Eligible patients will receive a text message invite to book an appointment here at the surgery.  

Please visit :

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccination-for-older-adults/your-guide-to-the-rsv-vaccine-for-older-adults for more information.

The following NHS Video explains the services provided by the surgery and how to get the care you require:

Understanding your GP Surgery Video

During the month of October 120 patients booked GP and Nursing appointments but did not attend. These missed appointments included specialist clinics that have waiting lists as well as normal appointments.

Altogether these missed appointments added up to 35 hours and 10 minutes of wasted clinic time.

If you have booked an appointment but can no longer attend, please contact the Health Centre to let us know as soon as you are able so that other patients can book in. 

Thank You

We send questionnaires via text message to patients after most appointments - where we ask how they found the Surgery overall.

In December we received 433 responses of which the responses were as follows:

• Very Good - 379 responses
• Good - 44 responses
• Neither Good Nor Poor  - 3 responses
• Dont/Know - 0 responses
• Poor - 2 responses
• Very Poor - 5 responses

We read all of your comments and share these with the team and appreciate you taking the time to send these back.

If you cannot complete the online form we also have paper questionnaires and a postbox on the desk in reception and there is a feedback form on our website too.

Thank You

Local pharmacies can now support you with 7 common illnesses without needing a GP appointment.

Patients can attend the pharmacy directly or may be referred to go to the Pharmacy when they call the Practice to make an appointment.  Our local Boots Pharmacy in Stokesley is taking part in this Service.  You can visit Boots after 9am when they open.

These Conditions include :

• Sinusitis (age 12 and over)
• Sore Throat (age 5 and over) 
• Earache (1-17yrs)
• Infected Insect Bite (over 1yrs old)
• Impetigo (Age 1 and over)
• Shingles (adults 18yrs and over)
• Urinary Tract Infection ( women aged 16-64yrs)