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Staff Training - Thursday 21st March

The surgery will be closed for Staff Training on Thursday 21st March from 1.00pm and will re-open on Friday 22nd March at 8.00am.


Digital Support with MPFT at Leek Library Thursday 15th April 10am-12pm

Come along and join our FREE Digital drop-in session at Leek Library on Monday 15th April between 10am-12pm.

Our friendly knowledgeable digital team are there to support the community with upskilling you with digital skills support and advice. We can support you with how to use your mobile phone, tablet or laptop along with hands on hints and tips to be safe when online. We also offer support with downloading and registering people for the NHS App where you can book appointments and order prescriptions at the touch of a button.


Breast Screening in Leek

Ladies registered with Moorland Medical Centre, aged between 50 and 70 years are eligible for a FREE breast screening every 3 years.

You will be invited to attend an appointment at Newton House, The Co-operative, Leek, ST13 5RG from February 2024 onwards.

Please only contact the screening team once you have received your invitation letter.

Ladies over 70years can self-refer to the service by calling 01785 230861.

North Midlands Breast Screening Service

West Midlands Breast Screening Programme (bscreen.org.uk)


Join the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent People's Panel. Help inform health and care services in your local area, by taking part in several short online surveys throughout the year.  

Visit our website on People's Panel - Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Integrated Care Board (icb.nhs.uk)

We are inviting members of the public to play an active role in helping to improve these services, for the benefit of everyone.
Wherever you live in Staffordshire or Stoke-on-Trent and whatever your background, your experiences are important to us and can help to make a difference to health and care services in your local area.
This isn’t a tick-box exercise – it’s borne out of a genuine desire to put local people at the heart of everything the Integrated Care Board does.
Your views really do matter. As a member of the panel, we will:

Invite you to tell us your views about services you are interested in through regular short online surveys.

Enter you into a prize draw with the chance of winning one of two £50 love2shop vouchers for each survey you take part in.

Send you a newsletter twice a year – to provide updates about the panel, explain how your comments have been used to shape healthcare locally and to share news about health care providers in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

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Staff Training Thursday 21st March

The surgery will be closed for Staff Training on Thursday 21st March from 1.00pm and will re-open on Friday 22nd March at 8.00am.


Easter Pharmacy Opening Times


Digital Support with MPFT at Leek Library Thursday 15th April 10am-12pm

Come along and join our FREE Digital drop-in session at Leek Library on Monday 15th April between 10am-12pm.

Our friendly knowledgeable digital team are there to support the community with upskilling you with digital skills support and advice. We can support you with how to use your mobile phone, tablet or laptop along with hands on hints and tips to be safe when online. We also offer support with downloading and registering people for the NHS App where you can book appointments and order prescriptions at the touch of a button.


Breast Screening in Leek

Ladies registered with Moorland Medical Centre, aged between 50 and 70 years are eligible for a FREE breast screening every 3 years.You will be invited to attend an appointment at Newton House, The Co-operative, Leek, ST13 5RG from February 2024 onwards.

Please only contact the screening team once you have received your invitation letter.

Ladies over 70years can self-refer to the service by calling 01785 230861.

North Midlands Breast Screening Service

West Midlands Breast Screening Programme (bscreen.org.uk)


About the NHS App

The NHS App gives you a simple and secure way to access a range of NHS services. Download the NHS App on your smartphone or tablet via the Google play or App store. You can also access the same services in a web browser by logging in through the NHS website.

You must be aged 13 or over to use the NHS App. You also need to be registered with a GP surgery in England or the Isle of Man. Find out more about who can use the NHS App.


NHS launches catch up campaign for missed MMR vaccines

Millions of parents and carers in England are being urged to book their children in for their missed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine as part of a major new NHS drive to protect children from becoming seriously unwell, as measles cases continue to rise across the country.

The NHS campaign will see all parents of children aged from six to 11 years contacted encouraging them to make an appointment with their child’s GP practice for their missed MMR vaccine.

NHS figures show more than 3.4 million* children under the age of 16 years are either unprotected or not fully protected and at risk of catching these serious and completely preventable diseases.

Last year the NHS sent two million, texts, emails and letters to parents and carers of 1-5 year olds who were unvaccinated and thanks to those efforts, 165,000 doses of MMR vaccine were delivered.

The NHS campaign will target areas with low uptake of the vaccine with the health service contacting just over one million people aged 11 to 25 years-old in London and the West Midlands to invite them to catch up on their missed MMR vaccinations.

Steve Russell, NHS Director of Vaccinations and Screening, said: “The NHS is acting quickly to tackle the spread of measles by contacting one million people aged between 11 and 25 across London and the Midlands to urge them to get their vaccine.

“People who are unvaccinated can get catch-up jabs at MMR pop-ups in schools and other convenient places while GPs, teachers and trusted community leaders are encouraging groups that are less likely to get their jab to come forward.

“All this builds on the national MMR catch-up campaign the NHS rolled out at the beginning of winter, with text, email and letter reminders sent out to parents and guardians of children up to five who have yet to get full protection.

“Measles is a serious illness, with one in five children who get the disease having to be admitted to hospital for treatment, so if you or your child have not had your MMR jab, it is vital you come forward”.

Measles is not just a childhood disease and can be serious at any age. If caught during pregnancy it can be very serious causing stillbirth, miscarriage and low birth weight and NHS bosses are urging young adults to catch up on any missed doses before thinking about starting a family.

Two doses of the safe and effective MMR vaccine are needed for maximum life-long protection, with the first dose given around the child’s first birthday, and the second dose given at around three years and four months old.

However, anyone can catch up at any age on any missed doses and it’s never too late to protect yourself. The vaccine doses are typically given via a single injection into the muscle of the thigh or upper arm and are usually delivered with their other one year and preschool vaccinations.

The NHS campaign is being supported by Samantha Murray-James from Cheshire, mum of 16 months old Lucca.

Samantha said: “I’d heard stories from my grandmother about measles and how she nursed her children in a darkened room to stop them going blind with it in the 1950s, but didn’t think it was still a problem now. When I heard that measles was making a come back in the news I was worried about my son, Lucca who was just a few months old. As soon as my GP invited me around his first birthday I booked him an appointment to get his first MMR vaccine. The nurse reassured us both and it has put my mind at rest to know he is now protected”.

Measles, mumps and rubella are highly infectious illnesses that can easily spread between unvaccinated people.

Complications from measles, mumps and rubella can be potentially life changing including blindness, deafness and swelling of the brain (encephalitis).

Analysis shows one infected child in a classroom can infect up to nine other unvaccinated children, making it one of the most infectious diseases worldwide; and more infectious than COVID-19. Meanwhile, one in five children with measles, will need to be admitted to hospital for treatment.

Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam, UK Health Security Agency Consultant Medical Epidemiologist said: “The continuing downward trend in the uptake of routine childhood vaccinations is a serious concern. The diseases that these vaccines protect against, such as measles, can be life-changing and even deadly. No parent wants this for their child especially when these diseases are easily preventable.

“We now have a very real risk of measles outbreaks across the country. Please don’t put this off, check now that your children are fully up to date with both their MMR jabs and all their routine vaccines, and do take up the offer as soon as possible if you are contacted by your GP practice or the NHS for your child to catch up”.

Data shows the MMR vaccine is safe and very effective. After two doses:

  • around 99% of people will be protected against measles and rubella
  • around 88% of people will be protected against mumps

This latest campaign follows on from an NHS polio and MMR catch-up campaign, which targeted un-or-partially-vaccinated children aged one  to 11 years in London, rolled out at the end of March through GP practices, primary schools and community vaccination clinics.

Health Minister Maria Caulfield said: “Measles is a serious but entirely preventable disease.

“The MMR vaccine is proven to be safe for youngsters and offers lifelong protection.

“I’m urging everyone whose child is not yet fully vaccinated to come forward and get them protected as soon as possible”.

Parents and carers can find out more about the different vaccines their child should have and when by visiting www.nhs.uk and searching for ‘NHS vaccinations and when to have them’.

Visit NHS.uk for information about booking your child’s vaccination appointment.

* The 3.4 million figure, based on NHS management data, is the number of children aged 12 months to 16 years in the groups the NHS is targeting with its catch up campaign, who are eligible for either one or two doses of the MMR vaccine but have not yet received it. This figure was calculated at a single point in time and is subject to change as people become eligible and receive vaccinations.


Percentage of Patients that Did Not Attend for their Appointment (DNA rates)

The percentage of patients that did not attend for their appointment in the month of January 2024 was 2.2%. 

There were 4500 booked appointments and 99 patients Did not Attend for either the Doctor, Nurse Practitioner or Nursing team.


Stop smoking and good things happen

When you quit smoking, good things start to happen — you can begin to see almost immediate improvements to your health.

It's much easier to quit when you get the right support and there are lots of options to choose from. Check out our free tools and tips to help you stay on track.

Let's do this and make 2024 the year you quit.

Quit smoking this January - Better Health - NHS (www.nhs.uk)


Leek and Biddulph Primary Care Network Newsletter Dec 23/Jan24

Primary Care Network Newsletter Dec23/Jan 24


Know your words, know your actions

The NHS is working hard to give people the care and treatment that they need. We know it is frustrating when people are worried for their health and they want help now. However, staff in settings throughout the NHS say they are facing a wave of anger and abuse when they go to work.

There is evidence of increased abuse happening in hospitals, clinics, in community settings and in GP practices like ours. And it is often the people that patients first come into contact with in primary care settings that bear the brunt of this.

This can include foul language, shouting, intimidation and threats. Increasingly it also involves targeting on social media.

Patients and staff across the NHS are standing together to ask people to be respectful to workers who are doing their best to help all our patients.

Abuse, bullying and harassment is never justified.

Care about us, caring for you. Our staff are human too.

Support your NHS staff and stand with us against abuse.

Find out more about the abuse faced by local GP practice staff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fitXOiwMyk&feature=youtu.be


Online Consult

Did you know you no longer have to wait on the phone to get the health advice you need


Round the clock access to healthcare information

You can now access a wealth of health advice thats clinically tailored to your symptoms.

Online Consult allows you to check your symptoms, receive medical advice and submit a health request directly to your GP through an online portal at any time of day or night. Its simple to use so theres no need to wait in phone queues.

How does Online Consult work?

Simply fill in a health enquiry form by clicking on this link https://www.online-consult.co.uk/org/moorland-medical-centre outlining your symptoms. Youll then be directed to information articles and videos advising you on how to treat your symptoms and what you may need to do next. The forms are quick and easy to use and tailored to give you help and advice thats specific to your condition.

The forms are sent directly and securely to the practice so we can check your answers and advise you on the most appropriate next step, you may need a face-to-face appointment with the GP or Nurse Practitioner or be signposted to another service by the Care Navigator.

Online Consult Link: https://www.online-consult.co.uk/org/moorland-medical-centre


Staying Well Winter 2023 – leaflet 

Please find attached Staffordshire County Council’s ‘Stay Well Winter 2023’ leaflet.

‘You may be able to get extra money to help with your living costs if you’re on a low income, care for a family member, friend or neighbour who claims benefits, or you’re over State Pension age. It’s quick and easy to check what payments you may be eligible for with our free online benefits calculator.  Visit www.staffordshire.entitledto.co.uk

Stay Well Winter 23


Social Prescriber Advice Session

Your local Social Prescribing Team are here to offer advice, guidance and signposting

WHERE:  Leek & District Foodbank (Rear of Gateway Church, West St. ST13 8AA)

WHEN:  Every Friday, 12.30pm – 2.30pm

What is Social Prescribing?

Social Prescribing can help with things that affect someone’s wellbeing but cannot be fixed by doctors and medicine alone.  If someone has a problem that is not medical, Social Prescribers can help them connect with the most appropriate support. Social Prescribing also aims to tackle loneliness and isolation, helping people to feel more in control of their lives and part of their community.

 

Signposting support examples:

Financial (Citizen’s Advice, debt management)

Mental wellbeing

Carer support and specialist support services (Dementia, Parkinson’s etc)

Housing support services

Social care and independent living (support in the home, aids & adaptations)

Social isolation (befriending, local groups and activities)

Volunteering, employment and education

Healthy lifestyle choices (physical activity, nutrition and smoking cessation)


One Health and Care 

One Health and Care is a confidential digital shared care record, used by different organisations involved in Health and Social care across Staffordshire and stoke-on-trent.  It allows doctors, nurses, and other registered health and social care professionals, directly involved in a patient or client's care, to view relevant information to provide better and safer care.

One Health and Care information leaflet

My Health and Care App

 

 

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