Old Basford Health Centre
1 Bailey Street
Old Basford
Nottingham, NG6 0HD
Tel: 0115 978 1231

Noticeboard

COVID-19 VACCINE

We are busy making the necessary arrangements in preparation of receiving stock of the Covid-19 vaccine.

As yet, we have no date of when we should expect the vaccine, but please be assured we are ready and eager to start protecting our patients against this nasty and dangerous virus.

Once the vaccine is received we will start contacting patients IN ORDER OF PRIORITY as per the guidelines published by the NHS Vaccination programme.

Please make sure that we have your up to date telephone number and address. You can submit any changes to your details via our website or app.

Upcoming closures for Churchfields Medical Practice

Tuesday 9 February 2021 from 12 noon

The Practice will re-open on the following working day at 8 am. For urgent treatment, please call 111.

This is a reminder that all patients who book an appointment at the surgery are asked to disclose any symptoms of new, continuous cough, loss of taste or smell and/or high temperature which could indicate Coronavirus infection. Failure to do so may put staff as well as other, vulnerable patients at risk of contracting the virus. If you have booked an appointment and have any of the above symptoms DO NOT ATTEND THE SURGERY and contact 111 or call Churchfields Medical Practice on 01159781231.

THANK YOU!

A huge thank you to all our patients for helping us to make Flu Saturday 2020 a big success. 

With the Coronavirus restrictions, we had to plan our flu day differently this year. We are delighted with the great feedback and lovely comments from our patients who attended. 

Visit to the practice

If attending Churchfields Medical Practice for an appointment or any other reason, please wear a face mask (not with the vent), scarf, bandana or something similar which covers your nose and mouth. 

Please come as close to your appointment time as possible as you may be asked to wait in the car/outside if it's more than 5 mins. 

Thank you for helping us to all stay safe.

NHS Dentistry

Access to NHS Dentistry is currently limited during the pandemic as all dentists have been asked to stop all routine “face-to-face” dental care.

However, if you need urgent dental care, help is at hand:

CALL your dental practice:

They will give you advice over the telephone and make arrangements for you if you need to be seen.

If you don’t have a dentist, find your nearest dentist and CALL them. You can search for your nearest dentist at: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-dentist

You can also contact NHS 111:

Emotional and psychological support

For those in need of emotional and psychological support at this difficult and challenging time, Trent PTS is continuing to provide a service for all patients registered with a Greater Nottingham GP. This is NHS funded. If you would like psychological support anybody aged 18 years or over can self-refer. Please go to our website to complete a referral and we will be in contact to arrange your first appointment.

As we continue to accept new referrals we are now offering our services by phone, webcam, using online text-based therapies or through online support packages so as to maintain social distancing.

You can also call the telephone number below, to talk to a member of our team about the services we offer.

www.trentpts.co.uk

0115 896 2051

Changes to the appointments booking service

Following developments of the Coronavirus pandemic and in the interest of patients and staff safety we have made the difficult decision to suspend the booking of all routine appointments for the time being.

We will be operating a telephone triage system and will be still offering telephone, video consultations and emergency appointments.

There will also be limited access to the practice by keeping the main doors closed. People attending the surgery for an appointment will need to press the intercom for access.

There will be a letter box where you need to put your prescriptions requests. If you normally collect it from the surgery, please use the intercom to advise the receptionist which pharmacy you'd like to collect it from when it's ready.

These decisions have been made following advice from Public Health England. Thank you for your understanding.

NHS app

We are pleased to say that our surgery is now live on the NHS app. Please follow the simple instruction to set it up.
You can book all non-urgent GP appointments, telephone consultations and some nurses appointments (smears, removal of sutures/clips,diet advice).
For more information, visit www.digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-app

GP+ Nottingham City – extended hours access for patients

Offering Evening & Weekend Appointments bookable through your GP practice, patients registered at this practice are able to access additional routine appointments during evenings and weekends through the new GP+ service.

Appointments are available to see GPs, Practice Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists and Physiotherapists in a fully equipped accessible location on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham City Centre.

Opening hours are:

16:00-20:00 Monday – Friday

9:00-13:00 Saturday & Sunday

This is not a walk-in service, appointments are required and booked through the reception team at the surgery. For more information visit: www.ncgpa.org.uk/gpplus

NHS HEALTH CHECKS

The Practice offers free NHS health checks for patients age 40-74. Letters will be sent out shortly to those eligible to make an appointment with nursing team.

NHS BREAST SCREENING
Eligible patients registered at Churchfields Medical Practice are being invited for routine breast screening throughout 2017 by Nottingham City Hospital Breast Screening Unit. Over the next few months, women aged 47-73 will be receiving an invitation to be screened. More information regarding the screening can be found at www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk

National Diabetes Audit - this practice is taking part in an important national project about diabetes care and treatment in the NHS. Theis project is called the National Diabetes Audit (NDA). We will send anonymous information about the care and treatment received by our patients with diabetes. This information is strictly controlled. If you do not want your information used, please inform a receptionist. This will not affect your care. You can get more information from www.hscic.gov.uk/nda

Information sharing agreement (MIG) - The practice has enabled software to share your GP medical record with urgent care services. This means that if you need urgent care treatment (A&E, Out of hours GP, Walk-in centre) the clinician treating you will ask for your consent for them view your GP medical record; if you do not wish them to view your GP medical record you can decline access. This will only work if you have provided us with consent to share information from your record with other healthcare providers - please click on the 'Enhanced Data Sharing Model' heading below for more information and a consent form.

The type of information shared is restricted and includes a summary of current problems, current medication, allergies, recent tests, diagnosis, procedures, investigations, risks and warnings – all this information is currently held in your GP system record.

Family & Friends test - The feedback we're getting from the Family & Friends test is mostly very positive - thank you. We've also had some helpful suggestions for improvement, that we're looking into. You can complete the Family & Friends test online (the patient survey button at the bottom of the home page) or in the practice (feedback box). We also send text messages after your appointments here giving you the option to share your feedback.

This practice currently offers patients’ facilities to book, view, amend, cancel and print appointments online.We also offer the facility for all patients to order online, view and print a list of their repeat prescriptions for drugs, medicines or appliances. We are also now able to to offer patients facilities to view online, export or print any summary information from their record, relating to medications, allergies and adverse reactions. We will need to see photo ID to set these up - please speak to a receptionist for more information

Newsletter September - October 2020

Welcome to Churchfields Medical practice

Churchfields Medical practice Churchfields doctors' surgery in Old Basford provides the highest quality healthcare to patients in the Nottingham area.

Here for you

Our team includes 3 GP Partners, 2 salaried GPs, 2 practice nurses, 1 minor illness nurse, 2 health care assistants, practice pharmacist, secretarial and reception staff. We're working closely with other health and social care providers in the area, as part of a care delivery group, and have great links to other healthcare professionals such as district nurses, health visitors, a community matron as well as community paediatricians and a community diabetic nurse.

Safe and Good Quality Care

The practice was inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in December 2017and we were rated as "GOOD" in all areas. The inspection report is available on the CQC website - here

Information sharing agreement (MIG)

The practice has enabled software to share your GP medical record with urgent care services. This means that if you need urgent care treatment (A&E, Out of hours GP, Walk-in centre) the clinician treating you will ask for your consent for them to view your GP medical record; if you do not wish them to view your GP medical record you can decline access. This will only work if you have provided us with consent to share information from your record with other healthcare providers - please click on the 'Enhanced Data Sharing Model' heading to the right of this page for more information and a consent form.

Training for the Future

Churchfields Medical practice is a “training practice”. This means we train fully qualified Foundation doctors and GP Registrars, who are attached to our practice for a period of 4 months whilst working closely with the rest of the team. This includes regular reviews of their consultations and record keeping.

A Wealth of Information

As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff, our opening hours and the services we provide, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like. We can use your ideas to improve our on-line services and further develop the content of this site.

Feedback from patients

We value the feedback our patients have to share, and gather it from a range of sources. There are always feedback forms in reception, you can speak to us directly and feedback can be submitted via this website. There are also a number of more formal patient surveys completed each year, by both the practice and external organisations. When the practice completes a survey, we will publish the feedback on this website and in the practice newsletter. To see the results of the main external survey, click here. If you wish to, you can also share your feedback with the public on the NHS UK website.

The Friends & Family test is another way of gathering patient feedback. This can be completed in the practice, by SMS response to our request or on this website - through the patient survey button below. We would like to hear the views of all of our patients, after every interaction with the practice. If you have difficulty completing the survey, you can ask someone to help you.

Since 1st January 2016, we have had 9763 responses to the Family & Friends test. This is a small proportion of the interactions we have had with patients (appointments, repeat prescriptions etc). We encourage all patients to share their thoughts with us. Here is a summary of the responses for this period.

How likely are you to recommend our GP practice to friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment?

likely / extremely likely		91.80%
unlikely / extremely unlikely		4.85%
neutral		2.54%
don't know		0.81%

We are very pleased that so many of the responses are positive - thank you. You've also provided a lot of useful suggestions that are helping us to plan how we can improve our services to you.

(Site updated 15/01/2021)