Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice

COVID-19

Third dose/booster vaccination Visit our COVID page for more info

Wearing face coverings at the surgery

We at Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice wish to continue to protect all our patients, particularly those unwell and vulnerable, as far as possible. We therefore continue to ask patients to wear face coverings when visiting the surgery and would like to thank you for your continued support and patience.

Skip the wait on the phone… contact us online

Instead of calling the surgery for medical, administrative or prescription issues you can contact us online – no app needed! We aim to get back to you about your query within one working day.

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Please do not use this service for urgent requests or emergencies, your messages will only be read during office hours. (Monday–Friday). Please contact 111 for out of hours or 999 if it is an emergency.

Watch the video below to see for yourself how easy it is to use.

Skip the video along to 13.20 minutes for a demo.

Latest news

Switching to a more effective and ‘greener’ inhaler

If you use an inhaler, arrange to speak to one of our clinicians to see if a dry powder inhaler could be more effective for your respiratory condition – they’re better for the planet too!

Inhaler leaflet

Our Covid and flu vaccination campaign

Information for patients about what will be the largest vaccine campaign the surgery has ever run, with nearly 3,200 of our patients requiring a booster of both Covid and flu vaccines between now and early December.

COVID-19 third dose/booster vaccination programme

The government has announced third doses for the immunosuppressed cohort and booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for eligible groups.

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Flu vaccine delivery delays

A message from the Institute of General Practice Management:

Practices across the UK have been informed that flu vaccine deliveries from the supplier Seqirus are going to be delayed by at least one or two weeks due to ‘unforeseen freight challenges’. That means that UK general practices will be without vaccines, possibly until the beginning of October. This is completely outside of their control.

Your GP practice will continue to work hard to change their existing plans and ensure that as soon as confirmed delivery dates are received, patients will be contacted and appointments booked.

UPDATE: Whitby Community Hospital – Minor Injury Unit

On Sunday 1st August, the Minor Injury Unity in Whitby will change to an Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC).

Find out more about the changes on the PCN website.

Plans for NHS Digital to centralise patient data

Find out how your patient data is shared with NHS Digital.

If you wish to opt out of this data sharing, please complete the form below and send to the practice.

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Further information on how we share your data is explained in our privacy notice.

GP surgeries, libraries and hospital receptions are no longer dispensing batteries for your hearing aid.

The audiology department are now taking over this service and will provide you with a supply by post.

The brown record book is no longer needed to obtain the batteries and this can be disposed of.

Please contact Audiology directly on 01904 726741 and select option 1 for the postal service. Alternatively you can email hearingaidrepairs@york.nhs.uk

Living well with asthma

Having a better understanding of your asthma can help you to look after your health. Recognising when your asthma isn’t as well controlled can reduce the risk of having an asthma attack and needing hospital care. The leaflet below (PDF) provides information and resources to help you manage your asthma.

Living well with asthma

Help us to help you!

We are using more technology to ensure we stay in touch with our patients. This may include video consultations, text messages and emails. Please ensure your mobile number and email address are up to date with the surgery and please notify us of any changes you make to these details.

Accessing our services as the COVID-19 pandemic continues – your questions answered

It is now over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic compelled us to change the way we offer healthcare services to our patients. The experience of patients and staff may be different at the moment but we remain committed to providing services which are safe, effective, caring and responsive to all patients. The last year has been extremely challenging for everyone in so many ways and, as a practice team, we have worked hard to balance our usual work of caring for patients with the whole range of illnesses and health conditions and caring for patients with covid. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

What have the team been doing during the last year?

Contrary to inaccurate reports in some media, GPs and their teams have not been sitting around doing nothing. We have dealt with more patients than ever before and in more difficult circumstances. What else has been achieved this year?

Maintained important services such as referrals for suspected cancer, home visits for clinically vulnerable patients, and mental health reviews for people with depression and other conditions.
Rapidly adopted new technology to support safer remote patient assessments.
Run an expanded flu vaccine campaign last year (including weekend and evening clinics) with all over 50s being offered the jab as well as people with long term health conditions (and with our highest uptake ever).
Undertaken pro-active health checks with our most vulnerable patients including those with learning disability, with serious mental illness, diabetes, chronic heart or lung conditions, and those who were asked to shield during the pandemic.
Worked together with colleagues in neighbouring practices to improve the clinical care in local care homes.
Continued to train the doctors of the future through our teaching of medical students and training of new GPs.

Read our patient newsletter outlining how you can continue to access our services:

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Online services

Order repeat prescriptions online

Patient Access allows you to order repeat prescriptions, as well as book GP appointments and find local health services for you or your family via your mobile or home computer.

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Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice

is part of the Whitby, Coast and Moors Primary Care Network (PCN). PCNs have been created to help integrate primary care with secondary and community services and provide care at greater scale. In doing this we can develop the services we offer to meet the needs of our local population.

Our new website has links that take you to our main PCN website to avoid duplication of information across each of our local GP practices. The ‘your health’ menu tab will take you to information about all the services in our local area, information about managing conditions and looking after you and your family.

You can find out more about our network by clicking on the ‘our network’ tab in the main menu. To get back to our individual practice site, simply select our practice name from the ‘practice websites’ menu tab.

Introducing care navigation

Helping you get the right care, in the most appropriate place, first time.

When you next request an appointment the receptionist may ask you some brief details about the problem you are concerned about.

Please don’t be offended. You do not have to share this information if you would prefer not to. However, it may help us to direct you to the most appropriate professional to help you with your problem, whether that is one of our GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacist, Nursing Team or another professional such as:

First Contact Physiotherapy
Pregnancy Advisory Services
Better Access Service
Living Well
North Yorkshire Horizons

Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice

COVID-19

Wearing face coverings at the surgery

Skip the wait on the phone… contact us online

Latest news

Switching to a more effective and ‘greener’ inhaler

Our Covid and flu vaccination campaign

COVID-19 third dose/booster vaccination programme

Flu vaccine delivery delays

UPDATE: Whitby Community Hospital – Minor Injury Unit

Plans for NHS Digital to centralise patient data

GP surgeries, libraries and hospital receptions are no longer dispensing batteries for your hearing aid.

Living well with asthma

Help us to help you!

Accessing our services as the COVID-19 pandemic continues – your questions answered

What have the team been doing during the last year?

Online services

Order repeat prescriptions online

Sleights and Sandsend Medical Practice

Introducing care navigation

Helping you get the right care, in the most appropriate place, first time.

Churchfield Surgery

Sandsend Surgery