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Following recent guidance from NHS England, patients entering our GP practice with respiratory symptoms will be required to wear a face mask. For all other patients, mask-wearing will be a personal preference. … [continue] PATIENT ADVICE: MASK-WEARING IN OUR GP PRACTICE

Monkeypox is a rare infectious disease, but, as has been recently highlighted in the media, there are a number of cases in the UK and the number is rising. Monkeypox … [continue] MONKEYPOX – SYMPTOMS, INFORMATION AND ADVICE

Monkeypox is a rare infectious disease, but, as has been recently highlighted in the media, there are a number of cases in the UK and the number is rising. Monkeypox … [continue] MONKEYPOX – SYMPTOMS, INFORMATION AND ADVICE

The COVID passport does not show your middle name. We are unable to add middle names to your COVID passport. Please refrain from contacting the surgery about this. You will … [continue] COVID passport – Middle Names

With an 85% rise in lower gastrointestinal cancers in Trafford in the past two years, GPs are urging patients to complete ‘life-saving’ bowel cancer screening tests.  As part of the … [continue] GPs URGE PATIENTS TO COMPLETE ‘LIFE-SAVING’ BOWEL CANCER SCREENING TESTS

“It’s the perfect medicine to feel lighter and brighter.” That’s how one woman has described her ‘green prescription’ to an Altrincham-based allotment group which is helping those struggling with anxiety … [continue] GREEN SOCIAL PRESCRIBING: THE NATURAL MEDICINE TO LIFT THE SPIRITS

Trafford residents are being warned to watch out for a fake NHS Covid passport scam which is conning the public into handing over their financial details. Fraudsters are sending texts … [continue] GPs WARN PATIENTS TO WATCH OUT FOR COVID PASSPORT SCAMS

Exactly one year on (December 16) since he administered the Covid-19 vaccine to Trafford’s first patient, Dr Maz Sangha is leading a team of clinicians, staff and volunteers providing the … [continue] ONE YEAR ON FROM VACCINATING FIRST PERSON IN TRAFFORD THE ACCELERATED BOOSTER PROGRAMME BEGINS

Following updated guidance from the JCVI, the NHS will shortly set out how staff will expand the booster programme – this includes how booster jabs will be given in priority … [continue] COVID BOOSTER: Latest information 30/11/2021

More than 95,000 Trafford patients struggling with money worries are now able to access a dedicated debt service due to a new partnership between Citizens Advice Trafford, Altrincham Healthcare Alliance … [continue] NEW DEDICATED DEBT SERVICE LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT PATIENTS WITH MONEY WORRIES

Park Medical Practice will be welcoming patients to its new, purpose-built premises on Stockport Road in November. From 8am on Monday 8 November the GP practice will be opening the … [continue] PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE WILL MOVE TO NEW HOME IN NOVEMBER

More than 500 patients received their Covid-19 booster at the Altrincham Health and Wellbeing Centre on Saturday and with the winter months approaching GPs are urging all those eligible for … [continue] BOOSTER ROLL-OUT BEGINS

West Timperley Medical Centre is proud to announce that we have been awarded a gold award for Pride in Practice. More information about Pride in Practice can be found here … [continue] Pride in Practice

To support the roll-out of the Covid vaccination among young people, we are operating a ‘walk-in’ Covid vaccination clinic for those requiring their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday … [continue] COVID VACCINATION WALK-IN CLINIC FOR FIRST DOSES. SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER. 9.00AM – 12 NOON

Below is an extract from a letter to GPs about the Data Opt Out Programme; We want to make the position around opt-out much simpler. While 1st September has been … [continue] Opt Out 1 Data Update for patients

To all patients. We are awaiting formal guidance following the Government’s announcement  regarding the loosening of COVID-19 safety restrictions. However, as a healthcare setting with significant footfall, we must prioritise … [continue] Patient Update 13.07.21

West Timperley Medical Centre is recruiting for a Medical Administration Apprentice to work with our long established, friendly and supportive administration team. Please see more information about the vacancy here: … [continue] Apprenticeship Vacancy

West Timperley Medical Centre, in common will all other GP surgeries, is legally obliged to extract personal confidential data from our patients’ GP records and upload them to NHS Digital … [continue] GPES data extraction for pandemic planning and research (COVID-19)

NHS Digital has now stated that to provide more time to speak with patients, doctors, health charities and others, the planned collection of GP data for Planning and Research in … [continue] NHS DIGITAL’S COLLECTION OF DATA HELD IN GP MEDICAL RECORDS DEFERRED UNTIL 1 SEPTEMBER 2021

Official government advice has been updated regarding patients accessing their Covid-19 vaccination status. The official advice, updated 21 May 2021, includes: How to access your COVID-19 vaccination status Through the … [continue] LATEST ADVICE: COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS AND TRAVEL

Dear Patients, You may have seen the news over the weekend about how people access their GP surgery. At West Timperley Medical Centre we have kept our reception open, though … [continue] LETTER TO PATIENTS: 21.05.2021

Today (28/4/21) Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed that the NHS App will be used as a ‘Covid passport/digital health certificate’ to prove whether people have had a COVID vaccination, … [continue] COVID-19 ‘PASSPORTS/DIGITAL HEALTH CERTIFICATES’

The latest patient information created by Public Health England regarding the COVID-19 vaccination can be viewed in the links below: Patient Leaflet from Public Health England – What to expect … [continue] BLOOD CLOTTING AND COVID-19: INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS

2 new studies are recruiting patients who suffer from chronic pain and lower back pain. Below is the information to access these studies;

Trafford council are running a new scheme where people can loan a laptop, with built in internet, from the library for 3 weeks free of charge. To enquire send an … [continue] Borrow a laptop from the library

https://www.principletrial.org/ West Timperley is currently supporting the PRINCIPLE study. If you are interested in participating, please follow the link above for more information.

Altrincham Healthcare Alliance are delighted to announce that we have extended our team and welcomed Social Prescribers, First Contact Physiotherapists and Clinical Pharmacists. For more information please click on the … [continue] Social Prescribers, First Contact Physiotherapists and Clinical Pharmacists

As Altrincham Healthcare Alliance’s five local GP practices vaccinated almost 1000 patients today, Mayor of Trafford, Laurence Walsh, said he was “in awe of all those involved” in the roll-out … [continue] Mayor of Trafford ‘in awe’ of GP practices rolling out COVID-19 vaccine to thousands of patients