Author: Al-Falah

June 2012

Queen Mary Practice - Practice News

Newsletter—Summer Edition

Details are available at our new website. www.queenmarypractice.nhs.uk

Special points of interest:
New Female Partner
New Surgery Name
New Website
New Receptionist
New Opening Hours
Same Excellent Healthcare

Inside this issue:

Summer is Here	1
New Members to our Team	1
Further extension to our Opening Hours	2
Get to Know Your Doctors	2
Better Access—Telephone Consultations	2

Summer is here!

Welcome to the Summer edition of our Newsletter.
For those of you that missed the first edition please do catch it on the website.
A big thank you to those of you that gave suggestions for a new name. We had a good response and it was a difficult decision. In the end we chose Queen Mary Practice given our location and in dedication to the QMW/ Barts and London site that was next door previously.
Incidentally , both Dr Khan (our new partner) and I studied at QMW/St Bartholomew’s/ Royal London Hospital (so perhaps just a slight bias !)
Dr Khan and I would like to warmly welcome you to the practice. We want to make it a Practice where our team can offer you the best healthcare advice and experience possible. Please do feedback to us to help us achieve this goal. This is your practice! Please help us shape it to serve you better.
Dr. Al-Falah Dhanji

New Members to our Team

We continue to be blessed with new recruits.
Dr Tasneem Khan has been appointed a Partner, joining me to provide you with the best care possible.
Haseena has joined Linda and Farah in reception and will add to the experience there. Wendy Branchett has joined us an interim Practice Manager.
We bid farewell to Janet and Anna who have worked here a long time and have now moved on to work in the Private Sector. We wish them well.
Please welcome and support our new staff. They are there to help you.

Queen Mary Practice, South Woodford Health Centre, 114 High Road, London, E18 2QS
Telephone 0208 491 3303, Fax 0208 926 5001, website: www.queenmarypractice.nhs.uk

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Yet a FURTHER EXTENSION to our Opening Hours

We have listened to you and extended our opening hours. Providing better access to a doctor, nurse or health care assistant. The new opening hours are given below. Phone lines will be open during practice hours but close between 1-2 pm at lunch time (although the window at reception remains open).
Doctors’ Clinic Times - By Appointment Only
The practice is open daily Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 6.30pm, except Thursday when we close at 5.00pm
In case of an emergency - Out Of Hours Emergency GP - 0845 075 0497

Appointments
Please Keep Them Or Cancel Them !
You can now cancel online.
Thank you.

Get to know your doctors—Dr Dhanji, Dr Khan, Dr Alam

Dr Al-Falah Dhanji. I qualified from QMW/Barts/London and qualified in 1995.
I joined Dr Siddique here as a Partner in January 2011.
My special interests include Teaching, Orthopaedics, Cardiovascular Medicine and Diabetes. I also run the Baby Checks, Maternity Care and Minor Surgery.
Dr Tasneem Khan qualified from QMW/Barts/London and qualified in 2000.
She is currently a GP at Loxford Polyclinic and has now been appointed a Partner here too.
Dr Khan’s area of interests include Diabetes, Palliative Care and Pain Management.
Dr Alam qualified in 2000 at Guys and St Thomas’. She joined us as a Salaried GP in September 2011.
Her areas of interest include Womens’ Health.

Check out the website @
www.queenmarypractice.nhs.uk

Better Access to Health Care and more Telephone Consultations

We now have more patients than ever before, with the list size now at over 3400.
In order to provide better access we are providing more telephone consultations.
We are able to deal with many consultation needs by telephone and this will make access easier for you. You will be able to speak with a Doctor the same day if you phone us in the morning. We will call you back at home or at work. If you need to be seen will try to facilitate that within 48 hours. Please give us the correct number to call you back on and please keep the line free.
Asiya our Health Care Assistant has really done well. She will be expanding her clinics to cover Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Asthma and Chronic Airway Disease.
More news in Autumn!

Monday	8.30am - 1.00pm	3.30pm - 6.30pm
Tuesday	9.00am - 1.00pm	4.00pm - 6.30pm
Wednesday	9.00am - 1.00pm	4.00pm - 6.30pm
Thursday	9.00am - 1.00pm	4.00pm - 5.00pm
Friday	8.30am - 1.00pm	3.30pm - 6.30pm