Order Your Repeat Prescriptions on the NHS App
If you have the NHS App on your phone (or if you use Patient Access on your computer/tablet, then you can order your repeat prescriptions online without phoning the Practice. Why not give it a go?
Shingles Vaccination
There have been changes to the shingles vaccination programme. Unfortunately the communications around those changes is contradictory and confusing. A clarification page has now been posted on the Gov.UK website. Until they are rectified, the nationally produced leaflets and advertising say that all patients aged 65 are eligible for shingles vaccination but this is not accurate.
The situation is that patients who turn 65 on or after 1st September 2023 are eligible and we will be contacting patients to make an appointment after their birthday. If you turned 65 prior to 1st September 2023 then you will become eligible for vaccination from the age of 70. Over the next 5 years the programme will gradually bring in everyone aged 65-69 and also everyone already eligible aged 70-79.
Therefore please do not make an appointment for a vaccination unless we have contacted you as you may not be eligible, even if you are 65. We appreciate this may be frustrating but the vaccine is only available in limited quantities and we are not able to vaccinate outside of the national programme which works on date of birth and not current age in years.
To clarify, if your date of birth is 1st September 1958 to 31 August 1959 then you will become eligble for shingles vaccination when you turn 65. In addition anyone aged 70-79 is also eligible, this part of the programme is unchanged.
Updated 25/9/23
Covid-19 Vaccinations
Spring Covid Booster Vaccines
This spring those most vulnerable and at greatest risk from COVID-19 will need extra protection . You are eligible for a free COVID-19 vaccine if you are:
• aged 75 years & over (by the 30th June 2024)
• aged 6 months and over and are immunosuppressed (please click "Read More" below for further information).
If you are eligible please use the National Booking System or call 119. You can also book using the NHS App.
Locally appointments are again being offered at Hexham Mart at Tyne Green. If this location is not available when you try to book, please try again at another time, more appointments are being added all the time.
Please do not call us to arrange a vaccination as we do not have any other way of accessing the appointments.
Saturday Hub
The Hadrian Extra Care Hub provides appointments every Saturday at Hexham Primary Care Centre. Appointments can be booked through our reception team or online by following this link:- NHS Bookings
Appointment types available to book include:
Practice Nurse
Asthma Review
GP Telephone Call
GP Face to Face
Cervical Smear Test
The GP or Nurse will have full access to your medical record.
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