TREVELYAN HOUSE SURGERY - JULY 2021
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JULY 2021
TREVELYAN
HOUSE SURGERY
Dear reader,
I write this newsletter 2
weeks before July 19th,
the date that Covid
restrictions are likely to
end.
The number of cases of the
Covid Vaccination Programme Delta variant of Covid,
which is significantly more
The vaccination programme is thankfully
decreasing transmission rates and breaking the
infectious than the original
link between Covid, hospitalisation, and death virus, are increasing.
and our vaccination site at Trevelyan House
However cases are milder,
continues. We have now contacted all patients
over 18 to offer them the first vaccination, and with fewer patients
are getting through the second doses ahead of becoming unwell or
schedule.
needing hospital admission.
It is worth noting that
symptoms are more likely
to include a runny nose,
headache, and sore throat
than a cough or loss of
smell, so may seem more
like a cold or flu.
If you have previously It looks likely that proof of Contact Details
declined the vaccine, it is not being fully vaccinated will
It has become clear that
too late to opt-in. Please help to open up travel and
many patients who are still
contact us, or book online for loosen quarantine
‘active’ and using our
one of the mass vaccination restrictions.
services need to update their
sites – some of which are also
We encourage all patients to contact details. Many move
offering walk-in sessions. The
locally or change telephone
nearest sites are Centre apply for online access to
numbers and, quite
Court Shopping Centre, their records. This is the
understandably, do not
Wimbledon Football Stadium easiest way to prove your
status, and links with the immediately think to let us
& Queen Mary’s.
well-publicised NHS app. know.
Later in July, we plan to add
In addition, this facility allows Please try to ensure your
some walk-in slots at
you to request prescriptions contact details are always up
Trevelyan House, and use
and see test results. Please to date, so you do not miss
our Instagram
ask at reception or apply via out if we need to contact you.
@graftonmedicalpartners,
the website. N.B. This app is
along with SMS messages
distinct from the Track and
and our website to advertise
Trace app.
this.
For up to date information,
visit
https://www.nhs.uk/conditi
ons/coronavirus-covid-
19/coronavirus-
vaccination/
Covid Booster Programme
The Joint Committee on Vaccination has now advised a Covid booster programme in autumn. This
will ideally start in September and be delivered alongside the flu vaccine. Details are being worked
out, but current plans are to roll this out in two stages.
Stage 1 Stage 2
Adults 16+ who are All adults over 50
immunosuppressed Adults 16-49 who are in influenza or
Those living in residential care for older Covid-19 at-risk group, for example,
adults diabetics, those with heart, renal, or
All adults over 70 liver disease
Adults 16+ considered clinically Adult contacts of immunosuppressed
extremely vulnerable individuals
Frontline health and social care
workersGeneral practice is This is because many
Chronic Conditions
expected to deliver a children have missed out on
significant proportion of normal exposure to RSV due Checks
booster vaccinations. There to lockdown measures We will be calling in those
are also plans for including school closures. who are due Diabetic,
community vaccination Asthma, BP checks, and
centres and pharmacy sites While there are no vaccines medication reviews. If you
to help complete this for many viruses out there, are asked to come in, we will
quickly. there is one for flu. So endeavour to do all of your
please, especially this year, checks at the same
Every year this newsletter take up the offer if you or appointment and assure you
references flu vaccinations, your child are invited for a that you will be safe.
and I make no excuse for flu vaccination.
bringing it up earlier than
usual. Cervical Screening
Last year, due to Covid and We have increased cervical
less social interaction, cases smear screening slots on
of flu and other respiratory Saturdays, and encourage
viruses were very low. everyone to book an
appointment if invited by us.
We have seen in Australia Cervical screening detects
and the USA that flu, RSV early changes which can lead
(respiratory syncytial virus), to cancer and saves lives.
coughs, and colds have
increased post-Covid. We
can anticipate a similar
experience in the UK,
particularly in children.
Obesity Last year the number of hospital
Coming out of the pandemic
admissions linked to obesity topped
Obesity still is a significant risk we all need to look at our
one million for the first time, an
factor for complications from life styles and diet and we
increase of 17% on the previous year.
Covid. We encourage all our encourage all of our patients
patients to access help to address to see our websites for
Since 1975 the global rate of obesity
this problem. Please see our details of local resources for
has tripled. Britain has the highest rate
website for local resources, where help.
of obesity in Europe with the
there are also useful tools to work Our social prescriber Maria
exception of the small island of Malta.
out your diabetes risk. has an interest in health and
Whilst smoking remainsthe biggest
fitness and it is possible to
cause of preventable death, we
In the UK obesity is responsible for book an appointment
estimate that obesity will soon
more than 30,000 deaths annually directly with her.
overtake it. Obesity-related
and, on average, deprives an hospitalisations increased almost
individual of nine years of life. This tenfold in the last decade, placing a
effect was increased by Covid. huge burden on all health care.Our Team I am sure you, like me, will MECS – for minor eye
be shocked by this but sadly conditions.
Our team has worked it illustrates what many https://www.loc-
incredibly hard under quite reception teams across the net.org.uk/media/7255/m
difficult circumstances for 18 country have to put up with, erton-wandsworth-ccg-
months. The majority of our albeit from a very small mecs-opticians-28-3-20-
patients have been so kind minority of patients. View v20.pdf
and supportive, but sadly the video at the following IAPT – for anxiety and
there seems to be a minority link: depression.
who feel no shame in being https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.nhs.uk/servic
outright rude and abusive to watch?v=hAM3fSDq9kA e-search/other-
our staff who are doing their services/Psychological%20
best to deal with the Please note all of our calls therapies%20(IAPT)/Locat
significant and sustained are monitored and recorded ionSearch/10008
increase in demand. We are and abusive behaviour will Our FCPs (first contact
not alone – this is not be tolerated. All the practitioners) are trained
unfortunately seen in most team appreciate positive physiotherapists. For
GP practices at present. feedback when it is musculoskeletal problems,
Lee LMC has produced a appropriate. for example neck and back
short video that I would pain or sports injuries
encourage everyone to We have increased the please book to see them.
watch. It is on our website – number of appointments we In practice pharmacist –
which shows what many staff offer across the board to try for medication queries and
have to deal with on a daily to cope with this demand. medication reviews. Our
basis. Not all conditions need GP team in the surgery can
input. We encourage you to help with a range of
consider using the local high medication related issues.
street pharmacists for
advice on minor conditions.
We are delighted to welcome back Dr Melloney Johns from maternity leave, just as Dr Katie
Jackson goes off on maternity leave.
Dr Anisha Kutty joined us in June, and Dr Stefan Momcilovic (who previously worked with us as a
registrar) will join us from August.
We welcome two new pharmacists to our in-house team, Mohammad Azizyan, and Saarah Gaffar.
We move cautiously but optimistically into the summer months. Next winter is likely to be very
challenging for all of the Health Service, but thanks to the excellent vaccine progress we go
forward with hope and will build on some of the positives which have come out of the last 18
months. We will continue to offer telephone and video consultations, as well as webinars and
group consultations to complement traditional general practice.Wishing everyone a healthy and happy summer
&
Happy 73rd Birthday to the NHS on July 5th!
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