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The surgery is only closed for the two bank holiday days – Good Friday and Easter Monday. We close on Thursday 1 st April at 6.30 pm, we have our normal Saturday morning surgery, 8.00 am to 11.00 am, for routine booked appointments and we re-open as normal on Tuesday 6 th April at 8.00 am. Outside of these times to get medical help or advice ring the normal telephone number – 0844 815 1340 – and you will be put through to the Out of Hours service. We wish all our patients and blog readers a good Easter, although looking at the weather forecast it looks like it will be a wet one!

From out website www.kingsmedicalpractice.co.uk it is now possible to order repeat prescriptions and make/cancel appointments. When you click on the big buttons labelled BOOK, REQUEST or REGISTER you are taken to the systmonline internet page where you can book and cancel appointments, request repeat prescriptions and register if you are a new patient. In order to be able to do this you need to get a username and password. To do this either come to reception in person with something that proves your identity such as a bank card, utility bill, passport or drivers licence or ask the doctor next time you are in surgery. When you logon for the first time you are able to change your password to something more memorable and you can see the repeats that you are allowed to order, your appointment history and appointments that you are able to request. For Kings Medical Practice using systmonline to order repeats works very well. When you order your repeat it is sent as a task for our prescript

The Summary Care Record has been in the news again this week with the BMA writing to the Department of Health expressing serious concerns that the roll out of the programme is going too quickly with not enough consultation with patients. The Summary Care Record is a national IT system whereby patients address details, medication, allergies, hospital appointments and past medical history will all be held on a central database and will allow anyone treating you to see this data. This will be very useful for doctors seeing you at hospital or as an emergency because they will know what drugs you are taking, what you have had in the past and if anything has been recorded about any allergies or sensitivities you have had. To access this information staff will have to access it via a SmartCard, will only be able to look at your information if they are treating you as a patient and the information they will see will depend on their role. So a receptionist will not see the same details that a d

Congratulations this week to three of our trainees who have taken the MRCGP Consulting Skills Assessment exam and have all passed – well done to Dr Aditya Narkar, Dr Linda Halliwell and Dr Duncan Marlow. The practice is a training practice and has doctors attached to the practice who wish to become GPs. These doctors will generally have done two years in hospital after they qualify and then join a three year GP training scheme. When they are attached to us they are either in the second or third year of their training scheme, so they have been training for at least four or five years after they have qualified at University. In order to become GPs they have to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and obtain the qualification MRCGP. In order to get MRCGP they have to pass three assessments. The first assessment is a multiple choice exam about applying knowledge they have learnt to patients they might see in general practice. The second is a collection of Work Place Ba

The practice website is now up, running and probably error free (*). You can access the website at www.kingsmedicalpractice.co.uk From the website patients are able to access our online services. Patients can request repeat prescriptions and book appointments. To do this you need to first register and get a username and password by coming to reception with proof of your identity, such as a passport or driving licence, and our administration staff can give you a username and password. It is very easy to do and with two clicks all staff can generate patients a username and password. When you access the online services you can order any repeat prescriptions that you are allowed and send a message with the request. You can also book some appointments. Currently we have just set it up so that our extended hour’s appointments are available; Saturday mornings, early morning and late evening surgeries. You can also see appointments you have made in the past and appointments in the future. On