Bottisham Medical Practice

All of our COVID-19 secure measures remain in place and this will not change when Government guidance changes on 19 July 2021.

Patients are asked to continue to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt, and to follow social distancing when visiting our GP Practice. 

This follows the national Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Guidance for all healthcare settings and will help to ensure the safety of our staff and patients at all times.

Thank you for your continued support.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, how you contact us will be different at the moment.  This is to limit face-to-face contact whenever possible and help stop the spread of coronavirus. The link below will help you understand what to expect when you contact us:

https://youtu.be/gXHPWbEmp5s

Your GP practice is open and if you need to see your GP, please call us on 01223 810030, visit our website or book via an app.  Our opening hours are shown below.

Appointments are being delivered face-to-face, via online video and over the telephone.  If you are asked to come into the surgery for a face-to-face appointment, please remember to wear a face covering.  Measures have been put in place to keep you safe from infection during your visit.

Please do not come to the surgery unless you have an appointment.  This will ensure we can continue to provide essential care safely.

A number of walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinics are taking place across our area.  Use the link below for details of the different walk-in options.

https://www.cambridgeshireandpeterboroughccg.nhs.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/covid-19-national-vaccination-programme/information-regarding-walk-in-clinics/

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS has launched Vaccinators on Tour this week, a new mobile vaccinator team that is powered by NHS staff to help get us all get back to doing the things we love. Anyone aged 18 or over is invited to get their COVID-19 jab from The Vaccinators at any of their forthcoming locations – no appointments required - just rock up. 

 This is alongside a range of walk-in clinics for 1st or 2nd AstraZeneca doses running at Vaccination Centres and Pharmacies. All dates can be found on the new dedicated the Vaccinators on Tour website via www.thevaccinators.co.uk that will updated daily with latest information.

Would you like to connect with other people living with type 2 diabetes?

Join a relaxed local group, to learn more about long term effects of living with diabetes.

Diabetes UK along with your local medical centre is offering you an opportunity to meet with others and share experiences and offer help and support.

Meetings to be held starting July 14th via Zoom

For more information and to reserve a place

please contact: David.robinson@diabetes.org.uk

The next PPG meeting will be held via Zoom at 2pm on Wednesday 21 July 2021.  

All patients are eligible to join in.  Please contact steve.gilson@btinternet.com for joining details.

Our AGM with mental health talk from the GPs was held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday 25th May 2021.

All patients were invited to attend the AGM. Dr Tamara Keith talked on the subject of "Stress, burnout & depression: when, how & where to seek help", there was also a presentation on Social Prescribing.

Minutes & slides from the presentations are available on the website here. 

Bottisham Medical Practice Patients’ Participation Group

Like all GP practices across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, our GPs and staff team are working under unprecedented pressure to deliver care to our patients.

Key Facts – April 2021

Number of appointments – 3373 (equivalent to 57% of our practice population)

Number of Face to Face appointments – 1392 (41%)

Number of patients seen the same day – 2807 (83%)

Number of patients seen in less than 3 days - 3043 (90%)

Number of patients seen in less than 7 days – 3263 (96%)

Only 1% patients did not attend their appointment – 99% attendance rate

Please support our GPs and staff at this difficult time.

Patient data from GP medical records kept by GP practices in England is used to improve health, care and services through planning and research, helping to find better treatments and improve patient care. The NHS is introducing an improved way to share this information – called the General Practice Data for Planning and Research data collection. 

In a letter dated 19 July 2021, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jo Churchill, set out a new process for commencing data collection, moving away from a previously fixed date of 1 September.

For more information on the GPDPR, including what information is obtained and how to opt-out of sharing your information, please click HERE

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group and The Sun Network have developed two new leaflets to support those with an eating disorder and another for those who are caring for someone with an eating disorder.

The leaflets provide information and support and have been developed alongside a group of individuals with lived experience.  You can access the leaflets and download them here:-

• Leaflet for those who may be struggling with an Eating Disorder
• Leaflet for those who are caring for a loved one with an eating disorder

A new service is now live to help find your NHS number. This service is for anyone living in England who has forgotten or does not know their NHS number. You can also use this service on behalf of someone else where the name, date of birth and registered home postcode is known. You can opt for the number to be sent to you by text, email or letter.

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