Welcome to Newtons Practice Website

MEASLES: The number of young people catching measles has risen.

Measles is an infection that spreads very easily and can cause serious problems in some people. Having the MMR vaccine is the best way to prevent it.

Measles symptoms include: high fever, sore, red, watery eyes: coughing; aching and feeling generally unwell; a blotchy red brown rash, which usually appears after initial symptoms.

If you have symptoms of measles, stay at home and phone your GP or NHS 111 for advice. Stay away from GP surgeries and A&E departments

Stay off nursery, school, or work for at least 4 days from when the rash first appears.

It’s never too late to be vaccinated.

You need two doses of the MMR vaccine to be fully protected against measles, mumps and rubella.

For more information visit:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/measles/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/mmr-vaccine/

Newtons Patient Participation Group

Would you like to become a member of the  'Newtons Patient Participation Group'?

We are looking to re-start our Patient Participation Group and are looking for patients that would like to meet a few times a year to discuss the services on offer and how improvements could be made to benefit our patients and the practice.  We are also going to set up a 'virtual PPG' for patients who are unable to attend committee meetings but who would like to be involved in helping to plan the services we offer. Please see the link at the bottom of the website for more information.

Application form for Patient Participation Group

See the Flu/Covid link at the bottom of the website for more information.

Flu vaccines - will now be done at the Practice for patients who are eligible - you can book an appointment online for your flu vaccine if you are eligible - aged over 65yrs, have a chronic disease such as diabetes, COPD, are pregnant or are a carer or frontline healthworker.

Flu eligibility:

The below groups will be eligible for a flu vaccine (School age children will have their vaccine at school, 2/3yr olds at the surgery) :

• those aged 65 years and over
• those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, chapter 19 (Influenza))
• pregnant women
• all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2023
• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
• those in long-stay residential care homes ^{[footnote 1]}
• carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
• close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants

Please use e-Consult, an online consultation arrangement, for advice on general health problems, to request sick notes or to discuss test results.  You will fill out an online form and will be contacted back by an appropriate clinician.  The clinician will have access to your health records and test results.

Please use the following link for more details:

https://econsult.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/General-How-to-use-eConsult-11.11.2020.pdf

Please help the NHS help you by using the most appropriate NHS service if you need help. 

Please consider using other services listed below if appropriate:

Self-care:  Please follow this link for fact sheets on common ailments, how to manage them at home and when to seek further help.  They have been produced with patient and professional input and reviewed by GP experts in the given topics. The fact sheets can be found at: http://www.selfcareforum.org/fact-sheets

Please use this link to access an information leaflet for parents with poorly children:

http://www.whenshouldiworry.com/resources/When%20should%20I%20worry-Booklet_England-with%20111%20service_2016.pdf

Minor Injury Units and Urgent Treatment Centres are also available to access - see details below.

Please only go to A&E or Emergency Departments if it is a life-saving emergency, like a suspected stroke or heart attack or severe bleeding.

NHS111 can help you get to the right service and they can link you in with out of hours GP services, walk-in-centres and other services.

Please consider attending the Urgent Treatment Centres if appropriate.  Follow the links below for more information:

Crawley Hospital - https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/services/urgent-treatment-centre/109069

Lewes Victoria Hospital - https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/services/urgent-treatment-centre-utc-at-lewes-victoria-hospital/109005

Uckfield -  https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/services/minor-injuries-unit-miu-at-uckfield-community-hospital/109006

The Crawley Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre is open 24 hours a day, every day

The Walk-in service at Brighton Station Heath Centre. Open 8am-8pm every day

The Minor Injuries Unit at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Open 8am-8pm every day

The Minor Injuries Unit at Crowborough Hospital. Open 8am-8pm every day

The Minor Injuries Unit at Uckfield Community Hospital. Open 8am-8pm every day

The Urgent Treatment Centre at Lewes Victoria Hospital. Open 8am-8pm every day

NHS111 can help you get to the right service and they can link you in with out of hours GP services, walk-in-centres and other services.

Please only go to A&E or Emergency Departments if it is a life-saving emergency.

Crawley Hospital has a twenty-four hour, walk-in, urgent treatment centre that you can use:

Crawley Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre

Crawley hospital treats most injuries or illnesses that are urgent but not life threatening. For example sprains and strains, broken bones, minor burns and scalds, minor head and eye injuries, bites and stings. You do not need to book an appointment - just turn up and you will be seen promptly by either a doctor or nurse.

They provide an initial assessment and treatment of patients who would benefit from immediate care to improve their symptoms and reduce the need for an admission into an acute hospital. They refer patients onto the specialist team who require accident and emergency (A&E) care or speciality care.

All patients are booked in on arrival and assessed by a nurse. During assessment/triage a range of questions are asked to aid clinical management and prioritisation to ensure patients with the highest needs are seen first. During triage patients may be advised:

• to see their own GP
• referred to an alternative healthcare provider
• advised on self care management
• or to see a local pharmacist.

How to Access the Crawley Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre:

Open for walk-in patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Based at Crawley Hospital, West Green Drive, Crawley, RH11 7DH. Tel: 01293 600300 Ext.4141

Newtons Practice is an established medical centre with ten doctors serving over 13,500 patients in the Haywards Heath area. Centrally located in the town, the surgery provides the highest quality healthcare.

Our Practice opening times are 8.00am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. 

We also have GP appointments and Nurse appointments available on a Saturday morning at our Network Group Practice in Haywards Heath.

As well as routine surgeries, the doctors and Practice Nurses provide a range of medical services and clinics which include Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Gynae including contraceptive advice, Minor Surgery, NHS Health Checks and many more.  

We also have six Paramedic Practitioners who hold a daily 'Urgent Care Clinic' who will help you if you are unwell and need treatment or advice. 

The Paramedics will refer you on to see a GP if necessary.  

Our phone lines will be closed between 1pm - 2pm for administrative purposes, if you need urgent advice from a doctor during this period, please ring the surgery for details of the emergency mobile telephone number.

Please note any emergencies should be called through before 6pm as our phone lines go over at this time. You'll be triaged and be able to speak to the 'Duty Doctor' as they are the only on call emergency doctor available. (Appointments and routine enquiries cannot be dealt with during this time).

WHEN WE ARE CLOSED: Should you need the services of a GP when we are closed please contact our out of hours provider via telephone number 111. They will advise you as to which is the most appropriate service for your immediate needs. If you need to be seen by a doctor, they will transfer your call to 'IC24', an out of hours GP service.

Your call will be triaged and if appropriate they will ask you to come into their base at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. They will also contact us with details of your telephone call or visit when we re-open so your medical records will be kept up to date.  

Please make sure you give us your up to date mobile phone number and notify us if you are happy for a message to be left should you not answer.  Telephone calls are recorded for training and monitoring purposes.

There is access for disabled patients from the car park. All the consulting rooms are on one level. Please allow plenty of time for parking as it is often full and spaces are very limited.  There is a public car park next door if the Health Centre car park is full.