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FLU CLINICS 2022

We have a Flu clinic booked for Saturday 22nd October 8.00am - 12.30pm at Leven.

If you are over 65 or between 18-64 and are clinically eligible, please telephone Reception after 2pm to book your flu vaccination.

Please note that we are not providing COVID vaccinations and these will need to be booked by telephoning 119 or via the national booking system.

General practices in Leven & Beeford, Hornsea and Driffield are working together and have become a Primary Care Network. We are enhancing access to our services by providing more appointments outside of our normal working hours. This will start on 1st October 2022.
We want this service to meet your needs so are asking your opinion on, when you would like these additional appointments, and what you would like them for. To complete the survey, please click

Please help us to improve our service by completing our annual patient survey. This is also an opportunity for you to give us any feedback you have. Thank you.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO4zyVD1feRNBNnjmi23fgc7JUQVJJNlBRMk9GSjVVMVhGMDVXSFoyRzRHMy4u

We have received new guidance regarding the wearing of face masks in GP surgeries from NHS England.

Patients who have any respiratory symptoms (coughs, wheezing, etc.) should continue to wear facemasks / face coverings, if tolerated, when coming into any of our buildings. This is for the safety of our other patients, our staff and our community.

If you are Covid-19 positive please do not come into any of our buildings, unless specifically invited in by a clinician.

Patients without respiratory symptoms or who are Covid-19 negative no longer need to wear facemasks when coming in for an appointment, unless this is their personal preference.

In addition, GP and Pharmacy Staff are now not required to wear facemasks, unless it is their personal preference.

NHS England has launched a survey to find out people’s views and experiences of veterans mental and physical health services. The information gathered will be used to help inform the development and provision of these services in the future.

Improving veterans mental and physical health services in England - NHS England - Citizen Space

OUR NEXT PATIENT GROUP MEETING IS:

WEDNESDAY 29TH JUNE 1.30PM AT BEEFORD

We are pleased to announce we have been accredited as a veteran friendly practice. Please let the practice know if you have ever served in the armed forces, even for just a day. This includes both men and women and could include service in the Second World War, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. We can then update your health record.

We are looking to set up a Veteran Support Group, if you would like to be involved, please contact our Business Manager terriwardell@nhs.net

Message for patients of our practice with Diabetes:

As you know, as part of your diabetes annual review, urine testing is really important to look for early signs of kidney damage. We do this through a test called the albumin:creatinine ratio (ACR) test, which looks for small amounts of protein in the urine.

We know people struggle to do the test, and many would prefer to avoid the clinic and test at home wherever possible. That’s why we are offering a new, NHS funded service to allow people to do this test at home with a kit and a smartphone.

If you meet the criteria for the new service, you will receive a text message (or a letter) about this testing process, which is run by Healthy.io. If you want to find out more, please click here: https://lp.healthy.io/minuteful_info/.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Could we remind patients that anyone with a cough, including children, should have a negative PCR test before booking an appointment.

Many thanks

Thank you to all who completed our patient survey, here are the results Patient survey 2021.pdf

Please be aware that from Monday 19th July, NHS patients, staff and visitors must continue to wear face coverings and follow social distancing measures in healthcare settings.

Please help us to reduce the risk of infection for our staff and patients by following the guidance, https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/07/nhs-patients-staff-and-visitors-must-continue-to-wear-face-coverings-in-healthcare-settings/

General Practice Data for Planning and Research (with effect from 1st September 2021) - for more info, click here

To see our current job vacancies, click here

Have you had COVID 19?

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Where are we with the COVID vaccination programme? - click here for more information

Covid symptoms: Unsure if it's a cold, flu or coronavirus? Click here

With effect from 24th July, it will be mandatory to wear face coverings in shops and supermarkets. If you have a legitimate reason not to wear one, for example you have a disability or a lung disorder (there are more listed), click the link below to see how you can download an exemption card.

Please don't contact the doctors surgery for an exemption letter as we do not provide them. Thanks.

Government mask exemption cards

Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms

Stay at home if you have either:

a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

NHS Test & Trace service

If you are contacted by the NHS Test & Trace service and they inform you that you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19, you must stay at home (self-isolate) for 14 days.

Use the 111 coronavirus service

Only call 111 if you cannot get help online.

If you are self-isolating, please follow the guidance here

Getting your medicines if there's a 'no-deal' Brexit - click here for information

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We have been voted the 3rd best GP practice in Hull & East Riding

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gp-surgeries-best-hull-yorkshire-3272879

The National Bowel Cancer screening programme for the over 55's is changing - please click here for further information

Accessibility Statement

This website is run by My Surgery Website, however the content is maintained by the business it represents. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

Change colours, contrast levels and fonts
Zoom in up to 200% without text spilling off the screen
Navigate the website using just a keyboard
Navigate the website using speech recognition software
Listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.

What to do if you cannot access parts of this website

If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille:

Call or email us

Email: enquiries@mysurgerywebsite.co.uk

Telephone: 0333 433 0021

We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 days.

Reporting accessibility problems with this website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact us via the email below with the subject “Accessibility Problem”.

Email: enquiries@mysurgerywebsite.co.uk

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Northern Ireland

The Equalities Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’).

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

My Surgery Website is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

This website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies;

NVDA with Internet Explorer
NVDA with Google Chrome
NVDA with Firefox
NVDA with Edge
NVDA with Safari
JAWS with Internet Explorer
JAWS with Google Chrome
JAWS with Firefox
JAWS with Edge
JAWS with Safari

How our site looks and work is based on HTML5, and we test for and support the following browsers:

Google Chrome (versions in support)
Mozilla Firefox (versions in support)
Internet Explorer (version 10 and above)
Microsoft Edge (versions in support)
Apple Safari (versions in support)

Technical specifications

This website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

HTML
WAI-ARIA
JavaScript

UserWay accessibility Widget

The UserWay Accessibility Widget offers a broad selection of functions that patients can use to meet their individual accessibility needs.

UserWay provides the following accessibility functionality:

Increase Text Size
Stop Animations
Tooltips
Convert to Accessible Fonts
Highlight Links
Larger Cursor
Reading Guide
Dark Mode
Light Mode
Invert Colours
Text Spacing
Colour Desaturation

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

The structure of all the pages throughout the site may affect users using assistive technology and keyboard navigation.
The text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window.
You cannot modify the line height or spacing of text.
Some form elements are missing descriptions.
Some elements may be missing keyboard focus.
You cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader.
Some links identified only by colour.
Some link text is used for multiple different destinations.
Colour contrast in some areas is insufficient.
Some image links are missing alternative text.
Heading is missing text in some areas.
Some heading elements are not consistent.
An iFrame used on the site is missing a title.
HTML tags are used to format text in some places.

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.

The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.

Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.

Live video

We do not plan to add captions to live video streams because live video is exempt from meeting the accessibility regulations.

How we tested this website

We conduct internal testing against known accessibility issues which are not able to be found through automated testing.

This statement was prepared on 16^th February 2024. It was last reviewed on 16^th February 2024 by My Surgery Website. We tested the home page and 10 random pages. Next review due 30^th December 2024 by My Surgery Website

Accessible features we test manually

manual check against the W3C validator
examining microdata markup and alt text using special tools
checking content in a text-only browser
using screen readers to read text aloud
using disability simulation tools to browse the website

Accessible features we test using third party tools

Axe: Web Accessibility Testing

Site Improve Accessibility Checker

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool