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COVID-19 GUIDANCE IN LOCAL HEALTHCARE SETTINGS TO REMAIN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Following the end to mandatory social distancing and mask wearing in daily life on 19 July, please be advised that if you are visiting a healthcare setting such as GP surgery, community clinic or hospital, you will still be required to wear a facemask and adhere to social distancing guidelines.

We are still seeing rising cases of COVID-19 in our communities and in admission to our local hospitals so despite the easing of restrictions in our daily lives, we must continue to follow a rigorous process in health and care settings to keep our patients and our colleagues safe.

Despite any changes coming into force from Monday 19 July in the community, current guidance remains in place in hospitals, GP and other primary care buildings and services in central Lancashire, and will not change at this time.

Therefore, all health and social care staff, volunteers, patients and visitors will still be required to continue to follow the below:

HANDS: Wash hands regularly with soap and water or hand gel if hand washing facilities are not available
FACE: Wear a face covering in practice buildings
SPACE: Stay at least 2m away from people wherever possible and ensure you follow the social distancing measures in place

Thank you for helping us continue to keep our patients and staff safe during these continued challenging times.

August 2021

Worden Medical Centre would like to invite you to join our:

Patient Participation Group

(PPG)

Are you interested in finding out about our practice and the development of the services we provide?

Our practice is actively seeking patients to join and form together a virtual patient participation group. The group will meet monthly with practice staff to discuss any changes or ideas you have for the practice and its development.

If this is something you are interested in or you would like more information, please email the surgery csrccg.wordensurgery@nhs.net.

Jayne Swarbrick, Clinical Service Manager

Following advice from Public Health England, screening invite letters for smears will re-commence from 1^st June 2020.

If you receive an invite, you can book a smear appointment online via MyGPApp (Patient Online Access currently unavailable)

Or by contacting reception on 01772 423555.

COVID19 – IF YOU DEVELOP SYMPTOMS PRIOR TO YOUR APPOINTMENT – DO NOT ATTEND SURGERY. CANCEL AND RE-BOOK FOR A FUTURE DATE.

Worden Medical Centre

COVID-19

IMPORTANT PATIENT INFORMATION

REGARDING SELF-SOLATION

Please do not contact the surgery for advice as to whether you should be self-isolating.

Visit the following websites for advice:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19

The GPs will not provide a sick note for patients who are self-isolating.

Visit the following website to obtain an isolation note for your employer:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-solation-advice/

Similarly we cannot provide advice regarding any sick pay you may be entitled to

– please discuss this with your employer.

Important messages for patients

Sunday 22nd March

Isolation Notes - please see attached information link;

Isolation Notice

Information regarding ordering and collecting prescriptions - see attached information link;

Prescription Update

Welcome to Worden Medical Centre

At the Worden Medical Centre in Leyland, our doctors and nurses take pride in offering the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. We run many clinics for chronic disease care and offer a wide variety of other medical services such as contraception, antenatal and postnatal care, childhood and travel vaccinations, minor surgery, well-person check-ups, and have recently set up warfarin monitoring clinics.

Everything you need to know about the practice can be found in the menu bar across the top of this page, or with the further information to the right which includes a wealth of health-related advice. Below you will find buttons for easy access to the following Online services: Request an Appointment; Cancel an Appointment; Order a Prescription; Update Clinical Details; Update Contact Details.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please click on the link below and complete the comments form.

http://www.wordenmc.net/contact_dlg1.aspx?p=P81057

Important notices for your information are updated regularly below.

Please see 'Latest News' for surgery news, job vacancies etc.

June 2018

Please see link below for our Privacy Notice.

Worden Medical Centre - Privacy Notice

November 2017

THE LEYLAND COLLABORATIVE

We have been working hard to increase the numbers of appointments available for you. This has involved developing a partnership with other local practices, which we are pleased to tell you has now resulted in the formulation of the group named above. The Leyland Collaborative consists of the following practices Worden Medical Centre, Central Park Surgery, Sandy Lane Surgery, and The Village Surgeries - Croston & Eccleston. The new service will provide access to GP and Nurse appointments at weekends and Bank Holidays ( except Christmas Day) from December 2017 and from January 2018, GP appointments weekday evenings. The service is available to all patients within this group on a proportionate basis however it is important to be aware that the appointment may not necessarily be at this practice. These are all additional appointments so it is not the case that patients of other practices will now utilise all our appointments.

Available appointments will be offered as normal through this surgery and you will be informed if the appointment is at another site.

Tracy Williams

Practice Manager

PATIENT ONLINE ACCESS

- please remember you can book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and access your patient record via Patient Online Services. Please click on the link ' Patient Online Services' at the right-hand side of the page for further information and registration process.

Blood Test Results

If a clinician at the surgery has asked you to have blood tests, please remember it is the patient's responsibility to contact the surgery approximately 5 days after the bloods have been taken for the results. Reminder letters will no longer be sent out for repeat bloods due.

Text Reminders

We have commenced using a text and email reminder service at the surgery. This will be used in many positive ways such as:

Appointment confirmation and reminders. The patient can also cancel their appointment via text or email.
Campaigns such as flu, shingles etc.
Gathering data for eg: Friends and Family, smoking status.
Sending out our Newsletter and patient questionnaires ( email )