Spring Covid Boosters
Eligible patients have started receiving letters from the NHS inviting them for their Spring Covid Booster.
Crossley Street Surgery have no current information about any possible clinics being held at the surgery, due to limited supplies of the vaccines. We have no further information at this stage regarding when we are likely to receive any vaccines.
If you have received a letter and would like to have your booster, please call 119 or go online to find your nearest vaccination centre. Please do not call the practice as we have no more information about this. We will keep you updated as soon as we have any more information.
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/covid-19-services/
Job Vacancies
Data Administrator
We at Crossley Street Surgery in Wetherby are offering an excellent opportunity for a reliable and flexible individual to join our Data Quality team.
For more information, please visit our job posting on NHS Jobs: https://beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A3859-23-0000
Receptionist
We at Crossley Street Surgery in Wetherby are offering an excellent opportunity for a reliable and flexible individual to join our very busy reception team.
We are a semi-rural practice, with over 11,800 patients, working from a modern purpose-built premises.
We are also a training practice with a wide multidisciplinary team including a PCN pharmacy team and an in-house pharmacy.
You will be a team player, willing to learn, and looking for a fresh and rewarding challenge. You will receive ongoing personal development and training opportunities in our high achieving and supportive environment.
You will work as part of a team providing a professional and effective telephone service to patients, following business policies and procedures, always ensuring accuracy.
You will be required to work between Monday and Friday, 8am to 6.30pm. Rate of pay is £10.14ph on starting, and the post is for 20/25 hours.
If you are interested in applying for this role or would like further information, please contact our Reception Manager, Anita Downie on 01937 543200 or
Memory Support Worker
For anyone who has a diagnosis of dementia or has memory problems, there is now a designated support worker in our area. The support worker is called Carolyne Threadgold and she is part of the Alzheimer's society. She can be contacted via email or mobile phone between 9-5pm Monday to Friday. She can help with information regarding dementia, advise on benefits, recommend local activities and visit you at your home. She is also having a twice a month session at Crossley street surgery that anyone can book into for support through the surgery reception.
These are the important contact details :
Mobile: 07980 970693
Email:
Alzheimer's society: 0113 2311727
A message from our practice manager:
We have noticed recently that large volumes of patients are queueing outside the surgery from 7:30am ready for when the doors open at 8:00am. Most of these patients are wanting to see the on-call GP for what they describe as an acute need. While we appreciate that people may have different ideas about what is and isn't urgent, the on-call GP will only see walk-in patients that they deem as medically urgent. All other pateints will receive a phone call, and the on-call GP will then make the clinical decision as to whether they will need to be seen in person. There is therefore no need to attend the surgery in person to simply book a telephone call with our on-call GP.
Patients who attend the surgery in person to speak to reception will not be triaged any differently to patients who call the surgery on the phone. If your need is urgent, you will be able to speak to a GP. We appreciate that there are often long queues when calling the surgery, however the telephone queues are only being exacerbated by an increasing number of patients showing up to speak to reception at 8am, as this takes our reception staff away from answering the telephones.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Sarah-Jayne Humphries
Practice Manager for Crossley Street Surgery
Blood Test Only Clinics
There are changes coming to Crossley Street Surgery in the new year: there are going to be 2 Healthcare Assistants doing Blood Test ONLY Clinics on Monday mornings 8am-1pm and Wednesday afternoons 1pm-5pm, offering lots of appointments, with a smaller clinic on a Friday 3:30pm-5pm.
From January, appointments for just blood tests will ONLY be available at these times. If you are unable to make these times then an ICE form can be provided for you to go to Sainsbury’s or Harrogate District Hospital which both offer a walk-in service.
Please note that due to strict timings, Healthcare Assistants will not have capacity to carry out any other examinations during these Blood Test Only Clinics, such as blood pressure or weight checks. We have a self-service POD which you can use to record your weight or take your blood pressure.
Finally, the nurses and Healthcare Assistants will still continue to take bloods during other appointments such as CHD reviews and NHS health checks, but they will no longer have appointments for just blood tests outside of the Blood Test Only Clinics.
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