Welcome to East Barnwell Health Centre

Welcome to our website where we hope you will quickly benefit from the user friendly layout.  East Barnwell Health Centre houses our GP practice and provides high quality healthcare to patients in the area. Our doctors, nurses and affiliated staff are dedicated to offering a friendly yet professional service. This surgery website will help us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.

As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff 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 online services and further develop the content of this site.

Please note that the practice operates a triage system for same day requests in addition to pre bookable appointments.  The practice is NOT a WALK IN CENTRE and cannot provide immediately available consultations.

HELP! – Help us to help you – please make sure that we have your current mobile or landline telephone number to enable us to contact you!

COVID-19 Vaccination Programme

Covid-19 Vaccine update: June 2021

We are currently no longer running a Covid-19 vaccination service at this practice. Please find information below for patients to access vaccine services locally.

Covid Vaccine Walk in Clinic information can be found HERE 

Awaiting first dose?

Once eligible, patients will be invited by the National Booking Service to book an appointment at one of the local Vaccination Centres or Pharmacy sites online via nhs.uk/covidvaccination or by calling 119.

For people under 40 without other health conditions, it’s currently advised that it’s preferable to have another COVID-19 vaccine instead of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. You can find out further information in the latest patient information leaflet HERE

Awaiting second dose?

Any patient who received their first dose at the practice but has not yet taken up their invite for their second dose can still book their appointment online at nhs.uk/covidvaccination or by calling 119.

You will be asked for your name, postcode and NHS number (patients can still book if do not have this) and then you will be offered a choice of appointments at one of the local Vaccination Centres or Pharmacy sites that is offering the same vaccine as you received for your first dose.

JCVI guidance recommends you receive your second dose between eight and 12 weeks after your first dose. However, if it has been over 12 weeks you are still encouraged to book an appointment to receive your second dose to ensure you have maximum protection.

The COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective and protects you and those around you. It’s the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history and has already saved thousands of lives by preventing the spread of Covid-19. Please book your second dose today. For further information on COVID-19 vaccines, visit nhs.uk/covidvaccination

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Visiting our practice?  Please continue to wear a face covering and social distance

All of our COVID-19 secure measures remain in place and this will not change when Government guidance changes on 19 July 2021.

Patients are asked to continue to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt, and to follow social distancing when visiting our GP Practice.

This follows the national Infection Prevention Control (IPC) Guidance for all healthcare settings and will help to ensure the safety of our staff and patients at all times.

Thank you for your continued support.

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Help Us Help YOU

DoctorLink

Please register for our online service, DoctorLink. Find out more here

Try the NHS App

If you’re a patient at our practice you can now use the new NHS App, a simple and secure way to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.

You can use the NHS App to check your symptoms and get instant advice, book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, view your GP medical record and more.

If you already use SystmOnline you can continue to use it. You can use the NHS App as well.

For more information go to www.nhs.uk/nhsapp

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