Yearly Archives: 2016

The New Musculoskeletal Practitioners at East Quay Medical Centre for Winter 2016/2017 A new effective diagnosis and treatment option for…

Please note that we are closed over weekends and bank holidays over the Christmas period.   Friday 23 December –…

From January there are road works near East Quay Medical Centre that will affect how you travel to and from…

This year we signed up to the Patient Safety Pledges again. This involved undertaking a survey on our culture. The…

This is a really helpful leaflet about what to do when children develop a cough. Please read it if your…

From the 1st of December 2016, NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has made all medicines for minor ailments suitable…

From the 1st of December 2016, NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has made all Gluten Free products non-formulary (the…

From January there are road works near East Quay Medical Centre that will affect how you travel to and from…

If so, you may wish to consider NHS screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.   Any man over 65 years of…

In July 2015 the BBC agreed take over the cost of providing free television licences for over-75s, to be phased…

https://www.cypsomersethealth.org/lifehacks Little book of Mental Health LifeHacks The LifeHacks Booklet is packed with ideas and links to support your own…

We have received details of a particularly cruel phishing scam which is circulating at the moment and affecting people with…

Introducing… The New Musculoskeletal Practitioners at East Quay Medical Centre for Winter 2016/2017 A new effective diagnosis and treatment option…

There is also a national vaccination programme for pneumonia and shingles. The pneumonia vaccine is offered to patients who are…

We strongly urge patients at risk from seasonal flu to arrange a seasonal ‘flu vaccination to avoid a seasonal  flu…

This week there was a news article in one of the national papers suggesting that patients will be removed from…

You may be aware of this project which aimed to extract information from medical records and pair it with prescribing…

As part of your treatment, health professionals are required to record details of your condition and the care you receive….

We are signing up, for the second year, to the Somerset CCG ‘Sign up to safety’ scheme. There are five…

We have just been informed that stocks are back. We have just ordered some vaccine so, for those of you…

In Somerset NHS providers, such as Musgrove Park Hospital and the Out of Hours Service will shortly have ‘view only’…

East Quay Medical Centre has the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) This means that for all repeat prescriptions you no longer…

Please allow at least 3 week days (some pharmacies, including Rowlands need four) between ordering your prescription and collecting it….

Instead, this is a good website that gives the truth behind the headlines. It is produced by the NHS to…

A year ago we were made aware that other Somerset patients had had random phone calls claiming to be from…

The NHS is currently under immense pressure and we have limited resources to look after our patients. Therefore we must…

East Quay Group have offered the men b vaccine privately to children who are not eligible in the NHS vaccination…

As the medical centre aren’t open on a Saturday, if you use Rowlands as your pharmacy, you may find it…

Many people find it comforting to know that their family know their wishes for the end of their life and…

Laura Turner has just joined us from Plymouth University. She is in the second year of her three-year nurse training…

This new NHS database, which is being piloted in SOMERSET and three other counties, is still on hold. We hope…

At East Quay we have always had a personal list system. You should know who your registered GP is, but…

We now have hundreds of patients signed up and using our online ordering for repeat prescriptions. If you have repeat…

All GP practices are required to declare the mean net earnings (eg. Average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS…