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Important changes to ordering prescriptions during Covid-19

We will accept prescription requests over the telephone, can you please contact the surgery after 11am, prescriptions can also be made :

• Online – please ask the reception team for information about registering for this service
• In Writing – Using your re-order slip (right hand side of prescription) or full written details (including dose and quantity), you can bring this to the surgery or post it to us.
• Via the Pharmacy – Some pharmacies operate their own system for ordering prescriptions. Ask your pharmacist for details.

Every 1-2 months, the surgery is closed for an afternoon (usually during the middle of the week) for essential staff training.   This is part of a Gateshead-wide initiative and during these times, emergency GP cover for Gateshead surgeries is provided by GatDoc, the service that provides out of hours care overnight and at weekends.  The afternoons the surgery will be closed during the next 12 months are:

• Tuesday 24th March 2020
• Wednesday 20th May 2020
• Wednesday 10th June 2020
• Thursday 9th July 2020
• Thursday 24th September
• Tuesday 10th November 2020
• Tuesday 13th October 2020
• Wednesday 17th March 2021

Mean GP earnings

NHS England require that the net earnings of doctors engaged in the practice is publicised and the required disclosure is shown below.

However, it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading because it takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice and should not be used to for any judgement about GP earnings, nor to make any comparisons with other practices.

The average earnings for GPs working in Oldwell Surgery in the last financial year ending in 2018/19 was £67,219 before taxation and National Insurance.

This is for 4 part time GPs who worked in the practice for more than 6 months.

 

 

The surgery was inspected by the Care Quality Commission, an independent body that inspects G.P. practices to make sure that they are safe and perform effectively.  The inspectors rated Oldwell Surgery as good in all areas and were pleased at the improvements that had been made since their previous visit.

If you have any ideas about how we can do things better or want to get involved in how the practice is run, please ask at reception about joining our Patient Participation Group

A reminder that the Electronic Prescribing Service has recently been launched. This means that in most cases, rather than being given a paper prescription to take to the pharmacy, a request will go there electronically. You should still allow 48 hours for your prescription to be ready after requesting it. If you are unsure about what this might mean for you, please discuss it with the surgery or your local pharmacy.