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Welcome to The Blandford Group Practice
With patient’s needs at the heart of everything we do, our website has been designed to make it easy for you to gain instant access to the information you need.
As well as specific practice details such as opening hours and how to register, you’ll find a wealth of useful pages covering a wide range of health issues along with links to other relevant medical organisations.
Call us on either 01258 452501 or 01258 453171.
Useful Numbers & Websites
24/7 mental health support line (Connections) - 0300 123 5440
Blandford Hospital - 01258 456541
Boots Pharmacy (East Street) - 01258 452619
Boots Pharmacy (Salisbury Street) - 01258 452824
MIU - 01202 856436 (Wimborne) & 01747 475251 (Shaftesbury)
Urgent eye problems - 0800 112 0070
Steps to Wellbeing - https://www.steps2wellbeing.co.uk/
NHS.uk - https://www.nhs.uk/
Healthier Together - https://what0-18.nhs.uk/
MSK Dorset - https://www.mskdorset.nhs.uk/
Covid Vaccine Update
The Blandford Group Practice will not be undertaking any further first dose covid vaccinations to patients aged 49 years and under.
If you have not yet had your first dose vaccine, please do not contact the surgery. When you are eligible, NHS England will send you a letter asking you to book via the national booking service at an available vaccination site.
Providing vaccinations impacts on the practices capacity to do ‘the day job’. We have decided that now the time is right to re-focus on our core services.
Patient Access
As we are still in the Covid pandemic, the NHS recommends that we triage or phone back every patient who wants advice from a nurse, doctor or other healthcare professional.
If you need medical advice or treatment, please call us on 01258 452501 or visit our website www.theblandfordgrouppractice.co.uk.
We ask many of the patients we have telephoned, to then come to the surgery for a face-to-face appointment, but due to infection control measures and social distancing, we can only let patients into the surgery if they have a planned appointment.
We are keen, as we are sure you are too, to avoid transmission of infection and so to ensure social distancing we are closely monitoring how many patients are in our building including sitting in the waiting room. We need to take more precautions than shops etc due to the vulnerability of some of our patients.
We know that some of these measures are frustrating for you as they are for us. We are facing unprecedented demands with a huge increase in the number of calls we are receiving and the need for us all to catch up with the monitoring of patients which was not possible in the height of the pandemic.
We all look forward to lockdown measures continuing to ease but in the meantime, many thanks for your patience and understanding.
Thank you.
Test and Trace Information
Please follow this link for more information
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs-test-and-trace-how-it-works
Be aware of scams
The NHS Test and Trace service will not:
- ask for bank details or payments
- ask for details of any other accounts, such as social media
- ask you to set up a password or PIN number over the phone
- ask you to call a premium rate number, such as those starting 09 or 087
Coronavirus Update
Gov.uk
- https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2.78387216.563775638.1604941600-1641335119.1597045446
- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-coronavirus-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do
NHS - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
If you need any clinical help, please do not use our 'Contact Us' page. Instead fill out an eConsult using the link above.
Getting a Covid-19 Test
As we all know, the system for Covid 19 testing has seen increased demand over the last few days. Concerned patients/public can contact 119 for customer care support. They are advising that people should re-try the gov uk portal at 8am, 12 noon and 8pm as this is when any extra appointments are added to the online system.
Dispensary Update
During this pandemic a home delivery service will be provided to our dispensing patients who housebound.
For more information please call the surgery and ask to speak to the dispensary.
Online/Internet Pharmacies
To all our patients who have nominated an online or Internet pharmacy. We advise that you order your repeat prescription yourself rather than relying on a third party to do this. Due to the current demand on their services sometimes the requests are not coming through to us and therefore your prescription is not being processed and sent to your nominated pharmacy.
Calling all Dispensing Patients – Your Dispensary Needs You
The profits from our Dispensary help fund vital services at the Practice including additional phlebotomy appointments, additional clinical staff and free dosette boxes.
If you are eligible to use the Dispensary we ask you bear this in mind when making the decision as to where you collect your prescriptions from. Unfortunately, due to NHSE rules we are restricted in who we can dispense medication to. To check that you live more than a mile from a pharmacy please see the NHS choices website. For more advice or information please contact the dispensary team.
Without your demand we wouldn’t be able to keep the Dispensary open and every time you use us you are helping to keep the additional services above running.
Thank you for your support
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How are we doing?
NHS Family and Friends Results - April 2020
77% Extremely likely to recommend us to Family and Friends
15% Likely to recommend us to Family and Friends
2% Neither Likely or unlikely to recommend us to Family and Friends
3% Unlikely to recommend us to Family and Friends
3% Extremely Unlikely to recommend to Family and Friends
0% Don't know