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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 a new shuttle bus service for the over 55yr old patients of Measham Medical Unit is being launched.

The minibus has been generously donated and fully funded by The Barbara Boardman-Weston Charitable Trust. Barbara was a patient at the Surgery for many years and in her memory, her husband and sons have set up the charitable trust.

Measham is a large practice covering many villages with either no bus service into Measham or a bus service which is restricted, causing our patients difficulties getting to their appointments.

The new 15 seat minibus is fully adapted to carry persons with mobility difficulties and can safely carry up to two wheelchair passengers, having an electric tail lift fitted.

The pilot scheme for the minibus has begun, and it will be developed over the next few months. We hope that we will soon be able to offer a regular service for our morning scheduled appointments.

Our over 55 yr old patients will be informed of the service via the local media, notes on prescriptions and by our Reception Team when making appointments.

Patients using the service will need to allow some flexibility in their pick up and return delivery times, to allow for a variety of passengers attending appointments around the same time.

The Boardman-Weston family, all the doctors and staff at Measham are delighted with this new evolving service; we know that ‘The Gift of a Lift’ will make a real difference to our 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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