Inveresk Medical Practice
Summer 2024 Gillian Milligan – Practice Manager Issue 27
Welcome to our Summer newsletter – hopefully you have enjoyed some of the good weather we have had.
Printed copies of this newsletter will be available to read in our waiting rooms.
Practice Team News
We welcome Dr Shawly Kabir, Dr Sam Tung and Dr Rupert Spencer to the Practice.
This medical practice is a training practice and GP Registrars are fully qualified doctors often with considerable hospital and GP experience. Dr Alan Douglas, Dr Andrew Sutherland and Dr Iain Harper are our educational supervisors.
Teaching
As a medical training practice, we train post-graduate doctors with a hospital background, undergraduate doctors, and student nurses. We hope that our patients will agree to our medical students and student nurses occasionally observing during patient consultations to progress development of their consultation skills. However, you will be informed of their presence in advance and if you do not want them to be present at a consultation, your wishes will be respected. This will not affect your treatment in any way.
Dr Lauren Wilson returns from maternity leave in August. Dr Wilson will work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Inveresk Facebook page
Inveresk Medical Practice now has a new Facebook page. We hope that this new page will allow us to help keep our patients up to date with all practice information.
News from our Summer Vaccination Team
RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV) VACCINATION PROGRAMME
Our programme planning is well underway, and letters have begun to arrive on the doorsteps of our eligible 75–79-year-olds in East Lothian.
We will commence on WC 4th August with visits to our care home residents and those unable to leave their own homes. Letters have been sent to those eligible whom we know to be housebound from previous programme advising we will be in touch to arrange a suitable time to visit. Anyone who may have become newly housebound that we are not aware of will have been invited by timed appointment to clinic. There are contact details on the letter where they can phone to advise us if they are unable to attend a clinic. We will screen for eligibility and arrange a visit as required. Practices can also refer via the housebound referral form. We would gratefully request only those meeting the housebound criteria are referred for a visit (attached). We currently have around 800 on the housebound list and with timings of all programmes being incredibly tight and with limited staffing citizens quickest way to be vaccinated will always be by attending clinic wherever possible – this also ensures those completely unable to leave their homes are vaccinated as soon as possible.
Clinics will commence on the 12th of August through to 15th September.
FLU AND COVID
We are currently in planning stages for this programme which is anticipated to commence WC 16th September for Flu and 30th September for Covid. Further updates will follow for this programme in due course.
NON ROUTINE VACCINATION
We continue to respond to referrals as soon as possible after we receive competed referral form. In addition, we are working with colleagues in public health to provide access to vaccination via a number of initiatives including MMR response, New Ventures initiative – covering those who have not had Men ACWY, Tetanus, HPV. Letters have been sent directly to those eligible with details of how to access drop ins over July.
CLINIC LOCATIONS
Our current clinics locations are:
East Lothian Community Hospital – Monday to Friday
Musselburgh Primary Care Centre – Monday to Sunday
Edington Hospital – Monday to Friday
Details of programmes and clinic information can be found by the public at Vaccine Hub – COVID-19 (nhslothian.scot and for practices looking for information including how to refer – NHS Lothian HSCP Vaccination Service (scot.nhs.uk)
Please note that the Practice will be closed on the bank holiday – Monday 16th September 2024
Working Hours Telephone 0300 790 6288 and our duty doctor is on call.
Out of Hours – NHS24 tel 111 for medical advice or 999 if medical emergency