CORONA VIRUS (COVID19)

The Pandemic is not over for the NHS.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to provide the best service to you we can with doctors and staff absences due to Covid. We have to ensure that all our staff are safe to have contact with you so staff and doctor isolation periods will remain.

We will continue to operate a system which means that a doctor or advanced nurse practitioner will phone you first to see how we can help. If we need to see you or you would like a face to face consultation we will arrange that with you.This is the only way we can operate which ensures that our waiting rooms are not full of patients and risk spreading infection to our vulnerable patients who need to see us.

When you come to the surgery please wear a mask if you are able to do so.  

Health care reviews by our nurses for long term conditions are  being prioritised so that we do not bring people into the surgery when it is considered by both you and us not to be necessary.

We will contact you when you reviews are due.

Please continue to attend regularly and promptly for essential services such as immunisations and cervical smears.

Spring Covid Booster Campaign 2022

Eligible patients:

75 years and over (includes adults turning 75 before 1/7/2022)

Residents in care homes for older adults

Immunosuppressed individuals aged 12 and over

Timing of the Boosters:

The booster vaccine cannot be given any earlier than 91 days after your previous vaccine and would be best given 5-6 months after your last vaccine as your last vaccine will still be working and this vaccine needs to last for another 6 months until October or November 2022.

There will be two Saturday clinics on May 7th and May 21st 2022 when we will be giving these boosters at Chilwell Meadows Surgery.

We will contact you by text when these clinics are open to book and there will be spaces for everyone.

For immunosuppressed individuals aged 12-17 years:

These are being booked at the Manor Surgery. Please contact Manor Surgery on 0115 907 6960

To help us help you

Please can you order all your medication ONLINE via the NHS App if you possibly can.  All prescriptions are being sent EPS (electronically) to a local pharmacy, please nominate one if you have not done so.

If you cannot order on line please drop your prescriptions into the box at the side of the surgery or if TOTALLY housebound and no one can do this for you phone the surgery between 10am and 12noon.

Click on this link for information on Coronavirus (Covid 19) treatment, testing and  vaccinations

Dr Amanda Gunther is sad to announce that she will be leaving the Chilwell Valley surgery at the end of June 2022. She has been a partner here for over 20 years and has felt it a privilege to be a GP for the Chilwell community during this time. She will miss the many wonderful patients who have known her. She knows the excellent practice team has always strived to offer a high standard of patient care and she is confident it will continue to do so moving forward. She is leaving to diversify her skills and roles as a GP over the next few years.

We would like to introduce Dr Jo Ratan who will be joining the practice as a partner in July. She is a very experienced GP and we very much look forward welcoming her.

UPCOMING BANK HOLIDAYS – REPEAT MEDICATION

Please remember to order any repeat medication in good time for the upcoming bank holidays celebrating the Queen’s 70th Jubilee on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June. Please only order if you will be due your medication around then to ensure you do not run out over that particular long weekend. Remember your local pharmacy can supply certain medication in an emergency if you find yourself without (e.g. asthma inhalers).