Watton Medical Practice

Due to staff illness, there will be no blood clinic tomorrow unfortunately. Sorry for any inconvience caused. Thank you.

Phlebotomy Nurses for next week:
Monday - 2 Nurses Tuesday - 2 Nurses Wednesday - 2 Nurses... Thursday - 1 Nurse Friday - 1 Nurse
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Please see below information about the Choir of Hope.

Please see below information for a two hour evening workshop for ladies to learn tools and techniques to ground yourself including mindfulness - held in Watton

Phlebotomy Nurses for next week
Monday - 2 Nurses Tuesday - 2 Nurses Wednesday - 2 Nurses... Thursday - 2 Nurses Friday - 2 Nurses
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DNA (did not attend) information for the past two months:
April 2019 - 58 GP appointments and 69 Nurse appointments were missed. This totals 127 appointments in total which equates to 1800 minutes (30 hours) of clinical time wasted.
May 2019 (so far) - 57 GP appointments and 31 Nurse appointments were missed. This totals 88 appointments in total which equates to 1230 minutes (20.5 hours) of clinical time wasted.
... If you need to cancel an appointment, please ring 01953 881247 and press option 2 to cancel an appointment. This is an answer phone only but our receptionists monitor this daily.
Or if you have received a text message to remind you of the appointment but you wish to cancel, you can send a cancellation text to us. Please follow the guidance from the text message reminder on how to text us to cancel your appointment.
Thank you.
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Please see below a Motion Study research project if anyone is interested. Thank you.

Our PPG have asked to remind everyone regarding the letter below. Is anyone able to help with transporting? Contact number on letter. Thank you.

Monday 20th May is International Clinical Trials Day. We are proud to be taking part in ongoing research studies here at Watton Medical Practice.

‘Please note the blood numbers are now found by the window near the weight machine (follow the signs). There is no longer a board’

Did you know that there is an NHS App?
This is available from the Apple iOS and Google play store. The App enables registered users to have access to: * Book Appointments * Order repeat prescriptions... * Access a brief medical summary * Set organ donation preferences * Offers a symptoms checking and triage service * Enables access to national data opt-out preferences
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-app