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NHS Dental Care

New Patients can register for NHS Dental care from the 1st March 2010 with Dr Tamber, Market Street, Ashby De La Zouch. Telephone: 01530 415353.

Measham Medical Unit Patient Transport Service

The Surgery Shuttle – ‘The Gift of a Lift’

On the 22nd February 2010 Measham Medical Unit launched its new patient transport service.

A generous donation from The Barbara Boardman-Weston Charitable Fund, has kindly purchased and fully funded a new 15 seat minibus.

Mrs Boardman-Weston lived locally and was a patient at the surgery for many years. It was her wish that better facilities were made available to our elderly people when visiting the Unit. When approached by Mrs Boardman-Weston’s family, doctors and staff at the surgery met and decided that patient transportation was a problem for many patients.

Some of our patients live in villages with little or no direct public transport to Measham and often rely on the good will of family and friends.

As a result of this generous donation, we have been fortunate to purchase a new 15 seat minibus, with full adaptation to allow for patients who use wheelchairs or walking aids. It has a fully automatic tail-lift together with easy access low steps and handrails to help patients that may have problems accessing normal cars and buses. The Surgery Shuttle

The service has been fully funded by The Charitable Trust and as a result there will be no charge to our patients. The service is available for patients over 55 years of age who have a mobility or transportation difficulties.

The Surgery Shuttle will operate a scheduled service to our out-lying villages. Our patients living in Measham can take advantage of the service on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays.

Please see the bus timetable HERE

The minibus can be booked by telephone at the time of making your appointment or in person with our reception staff.

On behalf of The Boardman-Weston family and all our staff at Measham Medical Unit we hope ‘THE GIFT OF A LIFT’ will be a great success and benefit to our elderly patients.

Measham Medical Unit Carer’s register

If you care for someone, there are services and resources available to you which you may not be aware of.

We are updating our carer’s register. If you are a carer please let us have your details and those of the person you care for.

If you would like more details please call into the Unit and ask at Reception.

Thank you

Haiti Disaster Fund

We are sending £190.00 to UNICEF for the Haiti Disaster Fund. This money has been donated by staff and patients.

REMEMBER ME TREE

Measham Medical Unit would like to thank everyone who supported ‘The Remember Me Tree.’

With your kind generosity we raised the grand sum of £220.00.

The money has been donated to the two most popular named charities –‘Help the Heroes’ and the Children’s Cancer Charity –‘ ChcSargent.’

Advice for patients asking about Aspirin after the recent news item

The advice on using Aspirin Tablets has changed from November 2009. You only need to continue Aspirin if you have had these five conditions:

Heart Attack
Angina
Stroke
Transient Ischaemic Attack (or mini stroke)
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and NOT on warfarin

You do not need to continue Aspirin for Diabetes or any other condition unless you have one of the above four conditions as well. If you wish to continue taking Aspirin to your next normal review, then that is fine as there is no urgency to change, but if you wish to stop straight away, you can do this without needing an appointment with the doctor or nurse practitioner, and we will amend the medication repeat slip either a your review or if you write on it when you next send it in.
Dr Nick Gravestock on behalf of the doctors at Measham

HEALTH INFORMATION KIOSK

Measham Medical Unit patients’ can now access free health information from a kiosk in the waiting room which provides an easy to use, safe and controlled facility.

The kiosk is user friendly and has free access to a comprehensive directory of information, and contains over 3000 patient information leaflets including information on medications, support groups, tests and investigations, diseases, diagrams and body systems.

It also links to health improvement resources on the web – such as self diagnosis engines, promotional health literature including advice on diet, smoking cessation and exercise, and links to useful external websites such as NHS Direct, patient.co.uk. and the PCT website etc.

There is also the facility for patients to complete GP and nurse questionnaires.

A user Help Page is available on the Kiosk and patients can also ask at Reception if they need any assistance.

Have you had trouble getting an appointment?

In February 2010 101 patients did not attend their appointments.

We understand that there can be many reasons for not attending an appointment, some of which may be unavoidable.

However, if you are unable to attend an appointment, please let us know as these appointments are very valuable and could be given to another of our patients.

Thank you for your help.

PAYMENT BY SWITCH OR CREDIT CARDS

We now accept switch and credit cards at the main reception desk and at the dispensary.

Telephone Triage Appointments (Doctor telephone call back)

From 9th June, we will be offering telephone call back appointments to all patients every day.

A telephone call back appointment is for when you feel your problem could be dealt with over the telephone, rather than making an appointment to see a Doctor at the surgery. ie: To discuss a recurrence of a previous problem, a prescription query or a new medication follow-up etc.

If you choose a call back appointment and after speaking to a doctor you need to be seen: then the doctor will offer you an appointment the same day if necessary.

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Chlamydia Screening

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection and 1 in 10 of those under 25 have it.

If it is not treated the infection can spread to other parts of the body and cause pain in the tummy area and even prevent pregnancy. Symptoms can present up to 1 - 3 weeks after coming into contact with Chlamydia, or months later when the infection spreads to other parts of the body which can include:

unusual vaginal discharge,
pain when having sex or urinating,
bleeding after sex or between periods,
lower abdominal pain or painful balls (testicles).

The Medical Unit and Youth Club are providing special screening kits in the toilets. You can use the kits in the toilets or take one home. Please bring it back and leave it in the postbox in the medical Unit toilet, or hand it over at the Enquiries Desk. It will then be sent away to be tested and if infection is detected you will be contacted and free antibiotics will be provided.

This is a confidential service.

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