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As the NHS continues its digital transformation, the NHS App is becoming a key tool for accessing services, managing appointments, viewing health records, and giving feedback. This shift is part of the NHS Long Term Plan, which aims to make care more personalised, accessible, and efficient through digital innovation. Please complete a short survey to help us feed back to the NHS about your experience of using the NHS App. Complete the short survey here – for printed copies of the survey or alternative formats contact: info@healthwatchreading.co.uk

Our Practice is committed to provide the best care possible. To provide an enhanced level of care and improve our efficiency we will be introducing Anima Scribe to our consultations. This will allow our clinicians to spend more time listening to you, than typing up notes. If you do not wish for Anima Scribe to be used in your appointment, please make the clinician aware.
 
Anima Scribe has been approved by NHS and it adheres to UK compliance, including GDPR and NHS standards such as DCB0129, DTAC and DSPT. For further details please look at our Privacy statement.

We are now in flu season, please ensure you book in for the flu vaccination if you have received a text or letter from us. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccination-who-should-have-it-this-winter-and-why/the-flu-vaccination-who-should-have-it-and-why-winter-2023-to-2024

Digital Cafes are available in Berkshire to offer people free informal, one to one, support around basic digital skills, including on smart phones and on the the NHS app so you can access health advice and support. See the link for more information and locations.

Digital Cafes | BOB ICB

You may have heard in the news that Mounjaro can now be prescribed by GPs for weight loss. 

Please be aware that only a small number of our patients will be eligible in this first rollout phase.

If you are eligible, we will contact you in October to check whether you'd like to start the treatment so please do not book an appointment to discuss this. 

Infection Control Annual Statement 2024/2025

New information from Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) states there may be a possible association between Valproate/Valproic Acid use by men around the time of conception and an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in their children.

If you take this medication, PLEASE DO NOT STOP TAKING YOUR MEDICATION

See the attached link for further information

Valproate use in men: as a precaution, men and their partners should use effective contraception - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Everyone turning 75 years old on or after the 1 September 2024 will be offered a single dose of RSV vaccine. This is because older adults are more at risk of serious complications from RSV.
You can still get the vaccine up to the day before you turn 80.

For the first year of the programme, the vaccine will also be offered to those who are already aged 75 to 79 years on 1 September 2024 as part of a catch-up programme.

Pregnant women are also being offered the vaccine to protect their babies from RSV. You can read the guide to the RSV vaccine for pregnant women here

Please see the patient information leaflet here for more information on the vaccine

Please wait to be contacted by the surgery. you will be sent an invitation to book your appointment. This vaccine cannot be given at the same time as the flu or covid.

Why can't I get a prescription for over the counter medications

Annual infection control statement University Medical Practice and Whitley Villa Surgery 2024