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Just a quick reminder that if you are planning to go somewhere hot the practice provides a full travel advice service to our patients including travel vaccinations, travel health advice, advice about malaria prophylaxis and Yellow Fever vaccinations. Most travel vaccinations are free - the exceptions are generally if you are going to unusual places or doing something unusual e.g. back packing trips in the wilds or staying somewhere for longer than three months. The commonest vaccinations patients have to pay for are Yellow Fever, Hepatitis B and Rabies vaccinations. You will also have to pay for malaria tablets but the practice does not charge if you need a private prescription for malaria prophylaxis tablets. The practice is a registered Yellow Fever Vaccination centre. We also provide Yellow Fever Vaccinations and Travel Advice to patients who are not registered with the practice. Our travel advice service is run by our nursing team and they would like you to fill

The practice has signed up to to an additional service that aims to ensure that patients who are at highest risk of being admitted to hospital have had their health and social care reviewed, have had a care plan written and the practice has put in place measures to reduce the risk of people getting admitted to hospital. To enable use to provide this service we are submitting data about all of our patients so that the data can be risk profiled and we end up with a list of people who are at highest risk of being admitted to hospital so that we can then try and do something to reduce that risk. This new NHS service is call 'risk profiling'. Your health information will be profiled in a local NHS data warehouse and the results will be seen only by your GP and health care professionals involved in your care pathway.   NHS security systems will protect the information from beginning to end. The health information of all of our patients will be risk profiled.