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COVID-19 Vaccine

The Practice realises that expectations are rising with the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine. Please be assured that as soon as you become eligible, and we have a sufficient supply of the vaccine that we will contact you to offer an appointment.

We will likely receive delivery of the vaccine at short notice and therefore will contact patients via telephone in the first instance. We will of course follow-up patients that we have been unable to reach over the telephone. The Practice will initially focus on the first eligible cohort of patients (those 80 years and over by 31 March 2021) until the end of January 2021. We are also working with NHS Tayside to coordinating the administration of the vaccine to our over 80 year old patients who are housebound.

We thank you for your patience.

For more information about the vaccine, please visit https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/immunisation/vaccines/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine 

Attending The Practice

When attending an appointment, we ask for your co-operation in the following:

  • Wear a face-covering
  • Attend alone where possible
  • Maintain physical distancing
  • Attend as near to your appointment time as possible. You may be asked to wait outside if you arrive too early. If you are late for your appointment, please call the Practice before coming in as we may need to arrange another appointment for you.
  • Sanitise your hands with gel on arrival and departure (we have sanitising points at reception and in the waiting area)

Please DO NOT attend the Practice if you are:

  • Displaying symptoms of COVID19 (cough, fever, loss of taste/smell)
  • Self-isolating or in quarantine
  • Awaiting a COVID test result

If you require medical assistance or advice see NHS Inform Website or phone the public general information number on 0800 028 2816.

Making an Appointment

Patients requiring a GP appointment or phone consultation are advised to phone the Practice as soon after 08.00 as possible. Due to the demand all requests for appointments will be reviewed by the GP (triaged) in order that the more urgent cases are given priority.  When the appointments are full patients will be advised to phone back the following day. 

  • To request an appointment with any of the Nursing Staff, please phone Monday to Friday during normal opening hours.
  • If it is a request for an emergency appointment please phone during normal opening hours, outwith those hours phone NHS24 on 111.

blue_calendar_2011When you ring us we will confirm your identity and ask for a brief description of the problem. If at this point we can offer appropriate treatment with our Nurses then an appointment time can be given immediately.

For appointments with a doctor we use a telephone triage system to manage the daily workload. This means that rather than working from a traditional “first come first served” basis the clinicians prioritise according to the clinical need of each individual call. If your request is for a continuing medical line or prescription, this may be given a lower priority for response than other more clinically acute symptoms.

We respond to circa 500 requests for GP contact in a week. We believe that Triage offers the best solution to ensure that any patient requiring access to health services can do so on the same day or within 24 hours where appropriate. The Practice acknowledges it may not always be convenient for a GP to telephone due to work or travel commitments. If this is going to be a problem please let reception know so we can overcome this problem.

Some people do not like to give the reception team their personal medical information. All of our staff (from Cleaning staff to Doctors) are covered by the same strict data protection laws and practice policies on information security. It is the Doctors wish that reception ask you about your reason for calling as they need as much information as possible when prioritising their callbacks.

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