*The Coronavirus*
If you are concerned you may have coronavirus please use the following link which contains a symptom checker as well as advice on what you should do next:
https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19
If you have coronavirus and require some advice on self-care please click here
For latest information around our covid immunisation clinics as well as other up to date news about the surgery please look at our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/MeadsMedCentre
If you believe you may have coronavirus you should not attend the surgery, hospital or a pharmacy, you should instead following the advice given in the above link.
You can request a covid 19 test by clicking here
Mandatory face coverings at the surgery for all visitors
Childhood immunisations
It is Public Health's recommendation that children are still bought in to the surgery for their usual childhood immunisations. These will be available via booked appointment only.
Prescriptions
Please continue to call NHS Prescription Ordering Direct (the POD) to order any prescriptions. The freephone number for POD is 0808 164 7678. Prescriptions will be issued to pharmacies directly and in line with their usual expected request dates. We respectfully ask you not to request medication any earlier than you would normally and not to request items that you do not need because you may be feeling concerned about levels of supply. If people begin stockpiling medicines or over ordering then this is likely to cause detrimental supply issues.
To reduce the workload for our doctors the practice is collaborating with NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBA) which is providing NHS numbers for those patients that may be suitable for electronic repeat dispensing prescriptions. The information is obtained from NHS prescriptions submitted to the NHSBA. A member of our clinical team will contact these patients soon to explain the benefits of this service.
A few words of thanks....
We would like to thank our patients for the encouraging words of support we have received and for cooperating with the above provisions which have been established to protect everybody’s interests. The partners and practice manager are extremely proud of the Meads team and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them publicly for their continued professionalism and dedication to their work. We are prepared, we have policies and procedures in place for different situations and are adopting these stringently.