Practice News
Pharmacy opening times: May 29 Bank holiday weekend
Face Masks
May 1st & 8th Bank Holiday pharmacy opening hours
HRT
Hundreds of thousands of women experiencing menopause symptoms to get cheaper HRT
Around 400,000 women across England will get better access to menopause support - saving hundreds of pounds and making treatment more accessible.
NHS Hormone Replacement Therapy Prescription Prepayment Certificate (HRT PPC)
COVID Vaccination Spring Booster
Please call the surgery to book an appointment if you meet the critera.
Easter bank holiday pharmacy opening timings
Most vulnerable to be offered spring COVID-19 booster
JCVI advises vaccine top-up for over-75s, immunosuppressed and residents in care homes for older adults.
The Practice will be 'closed' daily between 1pm- 2pm.
PRACTICE NOTICE
The Practice will be 'closed' daily between 1pm- 2pm.
Please DO NOT attend the surgery during this time.
If you need URGENT medical assistance during this period please call 111 or 999.
For all other medical queries call us back after 2pm
Adult Blood Test / Phlebotomy Appointments (Age 18 and over)
Phlebotomy - Oxford Community Diagnostic Centre
Adult Blood Test Appointments (Age 18 and over)
If you need to book a blood test - we are able to offer another service to our patients. Please ensure you've spoken to a GP/Nurse and obtained and ICE form before booking your appointment. Phlebotomy - Oxford Community Diagnostic Centre
https://my.drdoctor.co.uk/clinic/OUH-Phl
This service is for patients registered within Oxfordshire or receiving care within OUH. Please ensure you have a doctor’s order for your blood test. If the blood order is from your GP, please bring the A4 blood request form containing labels (ICE form).
Please book your blood test at least one week before your hospital appointment.
Call 01865 222652 if:
- Your blood test is needed in the next 3 days and there are no slots available
- You need to cancel or reschedule your blood test
The Oxford Community Diagnostic Centre is located inside the Perspectum Building, Gemini One, 5520 John Smith Drive, Oxford, OX4 2LL.
There is free parking adjacent to the building. There are 2 nearby bus stops, they are located on Garsington Road, and Barns Road. Please contact your local Bus Service provider for details on times and stops.
Christmas and New Years Pharmacy opening times
August Bank Holiday Pharmacy times
Town Pharmacy Name Address Phone Number Monday 29th August 2022
Abingdon Tesco Pharmacy Marcham Road, Abingdon, OX14 1TU 0345 6778994 09:00-13:00
Banbury Boots Pharmacy 12-14 Castle Quay, Banbury, OX16 5UH 01295 262015 10:30-16:30
Banbury Boots Pharmacy Banbury Cross Retail Park, Lockheed Close, Banbury, OX16 1LX 01295 252597 09:00-18:00
Banbury Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) 642 Oxford Road, Banbury, OX16 9XA 01295 703131 10:00-16:00
Bicester Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) Pioneer Sq, Bure Place, Bicester, OX26 6FA 01869 246500 10:00-16:00
Chipping Norton Boots Pharmacy 18 High Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AD 01608 642523 10:00-16:00
Didcot Boots Pharmacy 48 The Orchard Centre, Didcot, OX11 7LG 01235 812241 10:00-16:00
Didcot Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) Central Drive, Didcot, OX11 7ND 01235 815860 10:00-16:00
Didcot Tesco Pharmacy Wallingford Road, Didcot, OX11 9BZ 0345 6779220 09:00-13:00
Henley-On-Thames Boots Pharmacy 5/7 Bell Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2BA 01491 574132 10:00-16:00 Henley-On-Thames Tesco Pharmacy 359 Reading Road, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 4HA 0345 6779343 09:00-13:00
Kidlington Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 2PE 01865 371554 10:00-16:00
Oxford Boots Pharmacy 151 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1UT 01865 243633 10:00-16:00
Oxford Boots Pharmacy 6-8 Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3HL 01865 247461 09:00-18:00
Oxford Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) Heyford Hill, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4XR 01865 777663 10:00-16:00
Thame Boots Pharmacy 4-5 High Street, Thame, OX9 2BU 01844 213882 10:00-16:00
Wallingford Boots Pharmacy 7/8 Market Place, Wallingford, OX10 0EG 01491 839061 10:00-16:00
Witney Boots Pharmacy 2-8 The High Street, Witney, OX28 6HA 01993 705705 10:00-16:00
Witney Lloyds Pharmacy (in Sainsbury) Witan Way, Witney, OX28 4FF 01993 778691 10:00-16:00
COVID-19 vaccination programme for autumn 2022
Over the last 2 years, through a combination of vaccine-induced immunity and immunity generated following natural infection (natural immunity), large proportions of the UK population have developed at least partial immunity against COVID-19. As the UK transitions from a period of pandemic emergency response to pandemic recovery, the focus will increasingly be on protecting those in society who continue to be more at risk of severe COVID-19. To achieve this, a planned and targeted vaccination programme is considered more appropriate than a reactive vaccination strategy.
For the 2022 autumn booster programme, the primary objective is to augment immunity in those at higher risk from COVID-19 and thereby optimise protection against severe COVID-19, specifically hospitalisation and death, over winter 2022 to 2023.
Accordingly, JCVI advises that for the 2022 autumn booster programme, the following groups should be offered a COVID-19 booster vaccine:
- residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
- frontline health and social care workers
- all adults aged 50 years and over
- persons aged 5 to 49 years in a clinical risk group, as set out in the Green Book, chapter 14a, tables 3 and 4
- persons aged 5 to 49 years who are household contacts of people with immunosuppression
- persons aged 16 to 49 years who are carers, as set out in the Green Book, chapter 14a, table 3
In order to optimise protection over the winter months, the autumn programme should aim to complete vaccinations by the start of December 2022. Operational flexibility will apply in relation to vaccine supply, promotion of vaccine uptake and prioritisation for vaccination according to underlying risk of severe COVID-19.
Help us to help you by staying safe in the heat
Amber Extreme Heat Warning – information for practice websites
People in Oxford are urged to take care as hot temperatures continue across the UK.
The main risks posed by hot weather are:
- Dehydration from not drinking enough water
- Overheating, which can make symptoms worse for people who already have problems with their heart or breathing or long-term health conditions
- Heat exhaustion and heatstroke.
While the good weather maybe welcome to some, it can also come with significant health risks particularly for the elderly, the very young, and people with long term health conditions, like diabetes, COPD, or heart failure.
It is really important for people of all ages, to make sure that they stay well and safe by drinking lots more water than usual to stay well hydrated. It is also advisable to stay out of the direct sun between the hours of 11am and 3pm and avoiding any extreme exercise or exertion during these times. If you do start to feel unwell or poorly, then contact NHS 111 in the first instance.
If you need medical help that is not life-threatening, contact NHS 111 who will give you advice and point you to the best service for your needs.
More information staying well in hot weather is available on the NHS website.
New opening hours
PRACTICE NOTICE
As of Monday 27th June 2022, the Practice will be 'closing' daily between 1pm- 2pm.
Please DO NOT attend the surgery during this time.
If you need URGENT medical assistance during this period please call 111 or 999.
For all other medical queries call us back after 2pm
2nd & 3rd June 2022 Bank Holiday Pharmacy Opening Hours: Oxfordshire
Oxford Superdrug Pharmacy Templars Square, Cowley Centre, Oxford, OX4 3UZ 01865 779299 08:30-17:30 02 June 2022
Oxford Lloydspharmacy (in Sainsbury) J Sainsbury Store, Heyford Hill, Littlemore, Oxford, OX4 4XR 01865 777663 10:00-16:00 02 June 2022
10:00-16:00 03 June 2022
Oxford Boots the Chemists 151 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1UT 01865 243633 10:00-16:00 02 June 2022
10:00-16:00 03 June 2022
Oxford Boots the Chemists 6-8 Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3HL 01865 247461 09:00-18:0002 June 2022
09:00-18:00 03 June 2022
Kidlington Lloydspharmacy (in Sainsbury) J Sainsbury Store, Oxford Road, Kidlington, OX5 2PE 01865 371554 10:00-16:00 02 June 2022
10:00-16:00 03 June 2022
COVID VACCINATION RECORD ERRORS
How to apply for official proof that, for medical reasons, you're unable to be vaccinated or unable to be vaccinated and tested for COVID-19.
Missing or incorrect COVID-19 vaccination data on your NHS app or on your GP record,
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We feel it is important that we are upfront with our patients, so they understand the reality that we are all facing and the underlying reasons for this, and that, despite the easing of lockdown, the pressures experienced by general practice and the rest of the NHS are unlikely to ease soon. We are here for you and always have been.
An information warning regarding Patient Access:
Booster vaccinations information
“The NHS in Oxfordshire has started delivering COVID booster jabs to people in eligible groups. You will be contacted about your booster vaccination when six clear months have passed since your second COVID vaccination"
Patients groups eligible for the booster include:
• people living in residential care homes for older adults
• all adults aged 50 years or over
• frontline health and social care workers
• all those aged 16 to 49 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of severe COVID-19, and adult carers
• adult household contacts of immunosuppressed individuals
You may be offered the vaccine at your local GP-led vaccination site in the same way you had your previous vaccine, and/or be contacted by the NHS to go through the national COVID-19 vaccination booking service. You don’t need to get in touch with us about your booster jab. You will be contacted by the NHS when it’s your turn.
Your booster will be a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the booster programme, regardless of which vaccine you received before. This follows data which indicates the Pfizer vaccine is well tolerated as a third dose and provides a strong booster response. Meanwhile, Oxfordshire primary care teams will vaccinate care home staff and residents. Frontline health and social care staff will be directed to book their appointments through their employers if they work at Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT or Oxford Health NHS FT. Other staff will need to go through the national booking service
For information about vaccinations for children aged 12 -15 please go to Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group website or Oxford Health NHS FT website
Dont forget we have become a Park Run Practice
Campaign to hand back unused health and social equipment
Oxford Health is working with Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University Hospitals and supplier NRS Healthcare through the ‘Hand it Back’ campaign to encourage people to return equipment they no longer need.
The ongoing campaign aims to ensure that more people to benefit from the returned items when they are no longer needed.
The pieces of unused equipment being sought are:
- chairs, beds, bed rails and mattresses
- wheeled commodes
- any electrical items
- any type of walking frames
- toilet frames
- pendant alarm equipment/sensors (telecare)
- slings
All pieces of equipment for return should have a barcoded NRS or Millbrook sticker on them.
Larger items of equipment can be collected from individuals’ houses by calling NRS Healthcare on 01869 225420 or by sending their details to enquiries@oxfordshire.nrs-uk.net
Smaller equipment such as crutches, bathing equipment, raised toilet seats, slings can be returned at one of the collection points listed below between 10am and 2pm – no appointment is necessary:
- Abingdon Community Support Service (CSS)
- Audlett Drive, Abingdon OX14 3GD
- Banbury CSS – Neithrop Avenue, Banbury, OX16 2NT
- Bicester CSS – Launton Road, Bicester, OX26 6DJ
- Graham Hill House – Electric Ave, Ferry Hinksey Rd, Oxford, OX2 0BY (10am to 3pm)
- Oxford CSS – Awgar Stone Road, Horspath Driftway, OX3 7JQ
- Wallingford CSS – 51 High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0DB
- Wantage CSS – Charlton Village Road, Wantage, OX1 7HG
- Witney CSS – 6 Moorland Road, Witney, OX28 6LF
Help your local community by handing back any equipment that you no longer use.
Campaign to hand back unused health and social equipment (oxfordhealth.nhs.uk)
COVID Vaccination Walk-in clinics
Move Together - Tuesday 6th July
Invitation to Move Together webinar
Move Together is funded by the COVID Contain Outbreak Management Fund through the County Council, to help reduce the spread of coronavirus and support local public health. Many of our communities’ physical and / or mental health and wellbeing has been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and they need support now through this recovery period.
Move Together is a new county-wide pathway into physical activity. It will support people who have been shielding as a result of COVID-19, as well as people with long term health conditions but will help to reduce isolation and loneliness too. It is a supportive pathway, personalised to each individual based on their specific needs, provided by physical activity specialists.
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Opt Out
https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
"Type 1" Opt-Outs
To find out more, including how to record a Type 1 Opt-Out, please visit:
https://medconfidential.org/how-to-opt-out/
This website has further information about the Opt-Out, plus a downloadable form to complete and return to the surgery. If you cannot download or print a form at home, you can telephone NHS Digital on 0300 303 5678 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) or email enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk at any time.
Information for patients from NHS Digital
Data Sharing for Patients - the General Practice Data for Planning and Research Service
General Practice Transparency Notice for sharing Data for Planning and Research (Replacement for GPES)
NHS Digital collected patient data from general practices using a service called the General Practice Extraction Service (GPES), which has operated for over 10 years and now needs to be replaced.
Patient data collected from general practice is needed to support a wide variety of research and analysis to help run and improve health and care services. Whilst the data collected in other care settings such as hospitals is valuable in understanding and improving specific services, it is the patient data in general practice that helps us to understand whether the health and care system as a whole is working for patients.
In addition to replacing what GPES already does, the General Practice Data for Planning and Research service will also help to support the planning and commissioning of health and care services, the development of health and care policy, public health monitoring and interventions (including coronavirus (COVID-19) and enable many different areas of research.
For more information about this see the GP Practice Privacy Notice for General Practice Data for Planning and Research.
Provision of certificates or evidence of your COVID vaccination status
Patients who require a certificates of COVID vaccination status can use the NHS App or call the NHS Helpline. Details of both services are below.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/demonstrating-your-covid-19-vaccination-status-when-travelling-abroad
Proof of your vaccination status is available in the NHS App, which is also valuable for accessing your health record and ordering repeat prescriptions, and in some of the other apps that provide you with Patient online services.
The NHS App can be downloaded from:
iPhone/iOS https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nhs-app/id1388411277
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nhs.online.nhsonline
If you have not used it before, there is a self-registration process within the app to create an "NHS login" as per https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/online-services/nhs-log-in/
If you already have access/login details for patient online services, for example "Patient Access", you may use this.
Alternatively, you can call the NHS helpline on 119 and ask for a letter to be posted to you. This must be at least 5 days after you’ve completed your course of the vaccine. The letter may to take another 5 days to reach you, or longer if postal services are affected. Please take account of this when making your plans.
COVID VACCINATION UPDATE:
This practice is only offering COVID-19 vaccinations to those patients in priority groups 1-9 who have not yet had their first dose or are awaiting a second dose. Please do not contact us unless you are in of these groups. You can check your eligibility here If you are in the priority groups 10 - 12 (patients aged 49 down to 18) you will need to book your appointment via the national NHS booking service when your age group becomes eligible. This will allow you to find a suitable date and time at another site including the Kassam Stadium vaccination centre (or other large centre in a neighbouring county) and a participating community pharmacy. Currently, people aged 45 – 49 can book their first dose on the system, together with people in groups 1 – 9.
COVID Vaccination programme update:
Temple Cowley: covid vacciantion stats as of 22 March 2021
|
Cohort |
|||||||||
|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
TOTALS |
Cohort Size |
89 |
366 |
266 |
612 |
305 |
792 |
222 |
298 |
360 |
3310 |
2 Doses |
63 |
163 |
2 |
16 |
8 |
23 |
4 |
8 |
13 |
300 |
1 Dose |
22 |
186 |
248 |
519 |
260 |
568 |
174 |
154 |
185 |
2316 |
No Doses |
4 |
17 |
16 |
77 |
37 |
201 |
44 |
136 |
162 |
694 |
Declined |
3 |
15 |
8 |
31 |
2 |
12 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
82 |
|
||||||||||
% Fully Vaccinated |
70.8% |
44.5% |
0.8% |
2.6% |
2.6% |
2.9% |
1.8% |
2.7% |
3.6% |
9.1% |
% Partially Vaccinated |
24.7% |
50.8% |
93.2% |
84.8% |
85.2% |
71.7% |
78.4% |
51.7% |
51.4% |
70.0% |
% Declined |
3.4% |
4.1% |
3.0% |
5.1% |
0.7% |
1.5% |
0.9% |
1.3% |
1.4% |
2.5% |
No response |
1.1% |
0.5% |
3.0% |
7.5% |
11.5% |
23.9% |
18.9% |
44.3% |
43.6% |
18.5% |
COVID-19 News
INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS REGARDING CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
Covid Vaccinations
We are very excited to be running covid vaccination clinics at present and have successfully vaccinated nearly 4000 of our most vulnerable patients to date. We are working within the SEOxHA primary care network with Temple Cowley Health Centre, The Leys Health Centre, Donnington Health Centre and Hollow Way Medical Centre to provide vaccinations at The Leys Health Centre. This week some patients may start receiving invitations also from the Kassam Stadium where a mass vaccination centre is being run.
In preparation for receiving the vaccination or if you would like to read more about the vaccines available please click on the following link: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/
Over 75s
We are pleased to have offered and vaccinated most of our patients over 75. If you are over 75 and haven't yet been contacted please do email us on contact.tcmg@nhs.net or phone us so that we can arrange an appointment with you in our next available clinic.
Over 70s and patients who are extremely clinically vulnerable (shielding)
We are currently inviting patients who are over 70 or clinically extremely vulnerable into the vaccination clinic. Please wait for an invite text or phone call to book an appointment.
Patients under 70 and those not in extremely clinically vulnerable group
We are working under national guidance in delivering the vaccine. The JCVI have developed guidance for how we deliver the vaccine to those most vulnerable to coronavirus (you can read here for further information regarding who is in the different priority groups). If you are not over 70 or Extremely Clinically Vulnerable please wait to be contacted.
2nd dose of vaccination
As per government guidelines - by the JCVI and MHRA - we expect to be offering 2nd doses of vaccine approximately 12 weeks after the date of your first vaccination. You will be contacted closer to the time. The second dose of vaccine should be given at the site that you got your first. Those patients who received their first dose of vaccine at The Leys Health Centre should have their second dose at The Leys Health Centre. Those of you who are invited into the Kassam Stadium for the vaccine should have first and second dose there. If you receive an invitation to the Kassam Stadium but have already had your first dose of vaccine at the Leys Health Centre, please do not take the invite up - and allow the space to be given to someone who has not yet had the vaccine.
We are commited to keeping our most vulnerable patients and staff as safe as possible, therefore we have suspended all routine face-to-face GP appointment bookings. If you have not spoken to a doctor please do not attend the surgery.
If you are asked to attend the surgery you MUST wear a mask or other face covering. Please note we are unable to provide these for you.
In line with the latest advice, if you have a high temperature, new, continuous cough or a loss of taste or smell you should self-isolate for a period of 10 days. There is no need to contact either the surgery or NHS111.
For the latest information regarding COVID-19 please visit NHS111Online