Aspley Medical Centre

We have our Social Prescriber - Jazz coming to the surgery tomorrow afternoon 1 till 4pm and she will be available to talk to our patients and signpost you to various support groups. Please come along if your free and would like any support and advice.
If you are unable to attend, please don't worry Jazz will be coming into the surgery on a regular basis. If you prefer you can always email us at [email protected], leave you query and number and we'll pass on your queries to Jazz who will get back to you.
To any of our SEND SUPPORT GROUP you may find this service useful so why not pop in and see us. We are here to support you.
Social Prescribing in Nottingham
WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING?
Social prescribing connects people to practical and emotional community support, through social prescribing link workers, who are based in GP practices and take referrals from all local agencies. Link workers have time to build trusting relationships, start with what matters to the person, create a shared plan and introduce people to community support.
It helps people get more control over their healthcare, to manage their needs and in a way that suits them.
It can especially help people:
with one or more long-term conditions
who need support with their mental health
who are lonely or isolated
who have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
Social prescribing links individuals to a range of activities that are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations, for example, volunteering, arts activities, heritage activities, group learning, gardening, befriending, cookery, healthy eating advice and a range of sports.
To find out more about social prescribing, visit this NHS England webpage.

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ASPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE

PRACTICE BLOOD TESTS & HOME VISIT BLOOD REQUESTS

Aspley Medical Centre
509 Aspley Lane
Aspley
Nottingham
NG8 5RU
0115 929 2700

AN INFORMATION LEAFLET FOR PATIENTS REQUESTING A PRACTICE OR HOME VISIT BLOOD TEST IS AVAILABLE IN RECEPTION

PLEASE NOTE
As from 26th April 2024

We will no longer have the facility at the practice to provide both surgery blood tests and home visit bloods.

We will still be booking blood tests at the practice but will have limited capacity and you may be asked to have your blood test done at the hospital as this may be quicker.

If you meet the home visit criteria below, we will still be able to book a home visit to take your bloods but please be advised it may be quicker for someone to take you to the hospital if your carer/family member has transport available.

Our current phlebotomist will be leaving at the end of the month and therefore we will not have the capacity to undertake the amount of blood tests we have previously been able to do.

IF YOU THINK YOU MAY NEED A HOME VISIT

We would kindly ask that anyone who is mobile, uses walking aids, wheelchairs or scooters and are seeing or using other services away from home, come and see us in surgery.

If you are poorly and think you need a same day urgent visit, please ring your request through to reception on 0115 929 2700 as early in the morning as possible and before 12 noon. The doctor will always consider your request.

If we feel your visit request is inappropriate, we will ask you to use the service appropriately in the future.

Please do not be offended, as we have a duty of care to use our resources effectively for the safety of all our patients.

We have noticed that many patients are requesting home visits which are inappropriate or unnecessary and this can have a negative impact on our service. Calling for a home visit if you are able to attend the practice takes them away from patients who may have a more urgent clinical need. Most home consultations could easily and safely be carried out at the surgery and would safe crucial time and home


*A PATIENT WHO IS DEEMED TO BE HOUSEBOUND IF:-

Reasons for a Home Visit
APPROPRIATE UNSUITABLE
BEDBOUND

NO TRANSPORT OR MONEY

TERMINALLY ILL
YOUNG PEOPLE OR ANYONE WHO IS MOBILE

MAY COME TO SERIOUS HARM IF MOVED SOCIAL REASONS FOR CONVENIENCE
The small print
• Under the terms of working, doctors are required to consider home visits for MEDICAL REASONS ONLY
• If you think you qualify for a home visit please ring in the morning as early as possible.
• All visit requests will be medically assessed to check if appropriate

Home Visits, whilst convenient, offer a poor standard of care compared to a surgery visit because there may be lack of proper facilities/ poor access/lack of patient records and chaperones if an examination is required.

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HOUSEBOUND

when you are unable to leave their home environment through a physical or psychological illness. A patient is not considered housebound if he or she is able to leave their house with minimal assistance or support. For example: unassisted/assisted visit to the Doctor, dentist, hairdresser, supermarket, social events or hospital outpatients. Some patients may not be housebound permanently but rather are housebound temporarily as a consequence of an episode of illness". Minimal assistance would be described as a person who can leave their own home and travel to a clinic appointment in a vehicle such as a personal car, taxi or public transport adapted for their use or not and with or without the use of a wheelchair either by themselves or with an es**rt. To avoid confusion any person who requires a specialist vehicle (Ambulance) or a two person es**rt would be regarded as housebound. To avoid further confusion a person will not be regarded as housebound because they do not personally have a companion to es**rt them to a clinical
appointment.

PART TIME HOUSEKEEPER - JOB VACANCY

We are looking to recruit a dedicated housekeeper due to retirement following longstanding service from our previous housekeeper.

Salary: £10.55 per hour (negotiable dependant on experience) subject to an uplift on 1st April 2024.
10 hours per week, Monday to Friday 6am to 8am and annual leave / sickness cover is essential (6am to 9.30am).

You will be entitled to join the NHS Pension Scheme or NEST
The post attracts competitive holidays -5 weeks paid annual leave, including paid BH's rising to 6 weeks annual leave & BH entitlement after 1 years’ service.
Opportunity to join NHS Staff Incentive Schemes

We are looking for a dedicated and friendly individual who will work alongside our current cleaner to support our high cleaning standards with excellent time keeping skills and attention to detail. Experience is essential.

You will be responsible for ensuring
• Opening the building
• Detailed cleaning of all rooms in line with NHS IPC procedures
• Ensure a high standard of cleanliness is maintained throughout each designated area
• Maintain supplies of consumables in toilets and kitchen areas
• Complete cleaning activities sheets on a daily basis
• Complete online training courses required for the role to ensure compliance.
• Cover for sickness/annual leave for housekeeping colleague when required
Immediate start or a suitable start date can be discussed.
The successful applicant will be required to have a DBS check and supply 2 references.

Informal visits welcome. We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive sufficient, suitable applications so please submit your application early.

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: £10.55 per hour

Benefits:
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• On-site parking
Schedule:
• Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
• Do you have any experience of working in a clinical setting and what kind of cleaning products are you familiar with?
• Do you have experience working as a team?
• How do you feel about cleaning while patients or other staff are present?
• Are you flexible to cover for sickness and holiday cover?
Experience:
• Cleaning: 2 years (preferred)
Application deadline: 19/01/2024
Expected start date: To be discussed

PLEASE APPLY VIA EMAIL: [email protected]

We have been made aware that our Aspley Medical Centre website is currently down and we have emailed the website provider to see if we can get this back up as soon as possible. In the meantime you can still order your repeat prescriptions, book appointments online by using the NHSApp or Airmid UK app for the time being or put your request in writing. Thankyou

🥳 LAUNCH OF NEW PRACTICE WEBSITE ON FRIDAY 3rd MARCH 2023

🥳 ASPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW PRACTICE WEBSITE DESIGNED WITH QUICK LINKS AND EASY ACCESS FOR OUR PATIENTS TO BOOK ONLINE APPOINTMENTS AND ACCESS TO HEALTH ADVICE & SELF REFERRALS/ORDER YOUR REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONS/TEST RESULTS AND MUCH MORE. JUST CLICK ON THE GET STARTED BUTTON OR ACCESS THE WEBSITE VIA THE NHS APP
OUR NEW WEBSITE WILL BE LIVE ON FRIDAY 3rd MARCH 2023 SAVING YOU TIME RINGING THE SURGERY.
COME ON GIVE IT A GO!
YOU WILL BE AMAZED HOW HELPFUL IT WILL BE

To improve our network speeds and ability to offer service to our patients, our practice will have a reboot of our IT systems and telephones. This will impact our service ability on Wednesday 8th February 2023 during the times of 1.15pm till 2.15pm.

We thank our patients for their tolerance during this time as routine and urgent services may be impacted for a short period.

Thank you

Aspley Medical Centre

12/09/2022

Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the activation of arrangements relating to her lying in state and subsequent funeral.

The government has confirmed that Monday 19th September will be a Bank Holiday.

NHS England and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have the responsibility to ensure patients can access urgent primary care services during this time and we would like to reassure our patients that ongoing access to NHS Urgent Primary Care Services will be available during this time.

The GP Practice will be CLOSED on Monday 19th September 2022.

Out-of-hours services will be in place during what would have been core hours to meet patient’s urgent primary medical care.

In planning for this day, primary care commissioners and providers have considered the closures amongst schools and childcare settings, impacting childcare arrangements. Supermarkets/large stores may also close or operate reduced opening hours impacting in-store pharmacy opening.
Please only call during this time if your problem is urgent (0115 929 2700) and please order any medication requests in plenty of time.

Any patients who have booked appointments during this time will be contacted to re-arrange a suitable date and time.

To all visitors attending the practice. This is what was collected outside our practice this morning. We provide bins both inside and in our foyer for face masks to be thown away after use. Leaving them littered around the practice makes YOUR practice look untidy. Please be respectful and use the bins provided. Thankyou

Please see BACHS PPG invite to any of our patients who would like to attend.

ASPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FLU 2022
Flu clinics will return in the Autumn and Winter and are now available to book for our patients who are included in the groups below:
APPOINTMENTS NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-BOOK. PLEASE RING TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT NOW.

Tel:0115 929 2700

• Patients aged 65 years and over
• Patients aged six months to 64 years of age in a clinical at risk group such as those with: (clinic
• Chronic (long-term respiratory disease) such as severe asthma.
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or bronchitis
• Chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
• Chronic kidney disease at stage three, four or 5
• chronic neurological disease, such as Parkinson's disease or motor neurone disease
• Learning Disability
• Diabetes
• Splenic dysfunction or asplenia
• A weakened immune system due to disease (such as HIV/AIDS) or treatment (such as cancer treatment to morbidly obese (defined as BMI or 40 and above)
• All pregnant women (including those who become pregnant during the flu season.
• Those who are in receipt of a carer's allowance, or who are the main Carer of an older or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the Carer falls ill.

To patients registered at our surgery; If you would like to have your views on the additional hours you have access to your GP then please visit the link; https://forms.office.com/r/kQb5RqPwfB
or scan the QR code to complete the survey

BACHS PCN
(Bilborough, Beechdale, Basford (B), Aspley (A), Cinderhill (C), Hyson Green (H) and Strelley (S))
The Survey is for citizens living in Bilborough, Beechdale, Basford, Aspley, Cinderhill, Hyson Green and Strelley. Do you want your views to be taken on board on what additional hours, you have access to your GP?
Are you registered at any of the following practices:
Aspley Medical Centre
Bilborough Medical Centre
Broad Oak Medical Practice
Churchfields Medical Practice
Greenfields Medical Centre
JRB Healthcare (Beechdale Surgery)
Lime Tree Surgery
Melbourne Park Medical Centre
Do you want your views to be taken on board on what additional hours, you have access to your GP?
Link to the survey: https://forms.office.com/r/kQb5RqPwfB
Please scan this QR code to complete the survey
Twitter Facebook – BACHS Primary Care Network

Microsoft Forms

Notice from Infection Prevention Team 5th July 2022
For ALL patients & staff attending Aspley Medical Centre

COVID cases are increasing across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, this impacts the system with increased admissions and increasing community COVID outbreaks.

For those practices that moved to a risk based approach with mask wearing you must now move back to universal face masks for both staff and patients to reduce transmission within the community.

All practice staff should wear a type 11R face mask and patients should wear a face mask/covering when attending the practice and if they have respiratory symptoms or confirmed infection must be provided with a type 11R face mask.

DID NOT ATTEND OR CANCEL APPOINTMENT NOTICE

We understand that very occasionally that there may be mix-up or communication error in providing patients appointments. However, booking appointments and not attending without informing the practice (DNAs) means that someone else who may desperately need an appointment is denied medical care. We do not feel that this is acceptable behaviour from patients. Not only is this costly to the NHS but this is also detrimental to the health of our other patients.
IN APRIL ALONE 37 hours OF OUR APPOINTMENTS WERE WASTED BY PATIENTS NOT ATTENDING A PRE-BOOKED APPOINTMENT.

2210 MINUTES WERE WASTED - THATS AN EXTRA 221 APPOINTMENTS WE COULD OF OFFERED TO OTHER PATIENTS.
THIS COSTS THE NHS £7,956!! OF WASTED TIME & MONEY!

As a practice we are always looking at ways to improve our services and this is one area we feel needs to be addressed to support the NHS and help us to offer extra appointments to our patients.

Therefore if you 'DO NOT ATTEND' your appointment or ring/text to cancel this will
go down in your record as a did not attend and if you do not cancel or don't attend upto 3 missed appointments in the year you will be removed from our practice list.
(Please DO NOT rely on a text reminder for your appointment as the system is not always reliable. It is your responsibility to ensure you attend your appointment on time or cancel if you cannot attend)

PLEASE HELP US TO HELP YOU BY CANCELLING YOUR APPOINTMENT IN ADVANCE IF YOU NO LONGER NEED IT. THANKYOU

We will be holding a Covid Vaccination Clinic at the practice on Wednesday 29th December and Thursday 30th December 2021.
Please ring the practice to book your appointment as soon as possible. 0115 929 2700

For patients aged 18 years and over, this can be the 1st, 2nd or booster jab (please only book if you have 90 days between your last Covid jab)
Thank you

Covid vaccination appointments are available at Nottingham City GP Alliance, 64 Long Row from 3pm TODAY until Sun 19 December for those eligible .

To book call 07943028488, 07496738766 or 07943031537 with your name, DOB, NHS number & last vaccine date (if applicable).

We are holding a FLU CLINIC on Saturday 11th December. Please ring the surgery to book your appointment now. Protect yourself against the FLU this winter. Tel 0115 929 2700

There are many things that can affect your health and wellbeing but there is support out there to help you. You can self-refer to our Social Prescribers who are here to offer support.

To speak to one of our Link Workers to self-refer you can
email; [email protected]
or ring; 07947523328

Our Autumn/Winter Practice newsletter is out now. Packed with useful information and how to stay well this winter.

Aspley Medical Centre

Are looking to recruit a Practice Receptionist/Admin Clerk
32 Hours per week
Aspley Pay Scale; £17.422.27 to £19,553.62 (pro rata) Depending on experience
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, enthusiastic Practice Receptionist/Admin Clerk to work at Aspley Medical Centre in Aspley, Nottingham Nottinghamshire.

You will work within our current Practice Receptionist Team to provide an efficient, confidential and supportive service to our Clinical team. Your regular shift pattern will be;
Receptionist Rota
Monday - 8am till 1pm lunch 1.30pm to 7pm
Tuesday -8am to 1pm
Wednesday 1 to 7pm
Thursday 8am to 1pm lunch 1.30pm till 7pm
Friday DAY OFF
Are you; flexible, motivated, reliable, conscientious and committed and would like to make a valuable contribution to our reception team? If so;
Aspley Medical Centre is waiting to hear from you.
We are seeking an experienced Receptionist to work with us to deliver a strong and supportive service, and to perform a variety of reception and administrative duties. The post holder should be computer literate (preferably SystmOne trained) and have at least one year NHS Receptionist experience. The post holder must have a good standard of education, have excellent communication skills, be organised, work well under pressure, enjoy working flexibly within a multi-disciplinary team setting and should be able to multi task and show initiative. Our friendly team offers regular Supervision, Training and Development opportunities.
You will be required to be flexible to cover for sickness and annual leave when required.

You will be passionate about our practice, creating a culture of continuous improvement, where patient welfare is at the heart of all you do.

All posts at the practice are worked within the core hours of 8.00am to 7.00pm.
The successful applicant will be required to have a DBS check and supply 2 references.
Informal visits welcome. We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive sufficient, suitable applications so please submit your application early.

AGED 65 & OVER?
IT'S TIME TO BOOK YOUR FLU JAB NOW.
APPOINTMENTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK ON SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER. DON'T MISS OUT!
RING NOW
0115 929 2700

UNDER 65 @ RISK?

PLEASE RING AND BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT NOW. APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR OUR UNDER 65 @ RISK FOR SATURDAY 18th SEPTEMBER.
RING NOW! 0115 929 2700

Flu vaccine and coronavirus (COVID-19)
Flu vaccination is important because:

more people are likely to get flu this winter as fewer people will have built up natural immunity to it during the COVID-19 pandemic
if you get flu and COVID-19 at the same time, research shows you're more likely to be seriously ill
getting vaccinated against flu and COVID-19 will provide protection for you and those around you for both these serious illnesses
If you've had COVID-19, it's safe to have the flu vaccine. It will still be effective at helping to prevent flu.

Who can have the flu vaccine?
The flu vaccine is given free on the NHS to people who:

are 50 and over (including those who'll be 50 by 31 March 2022)
have certain health conditions
are pregnant
are in long-stay residential care
receive a carer's allowance, or are the main carer for an older or disabled person who may be at risk if you get sick
live with someone who is more likely to get infections (such as someone who has HIV, has had a transplant or is having certain treatments for cancer, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis)
frontline health or social care workers