COVID-19 & Practice updates
Covid vaccination status
Information regarding your COVID vaccination certification.
We are unable to issue this certificate at the practice.
Please see the Gov.uk website for further information.
Proof of your vaccination status will be available on the NHS app, which is also valuable for accessing your health records and ordering repeat prescriptions.
The NHS app can be downloaded from here for iPhone or here for android.
Alternatively, you can call the NHS helpline on 119 (from 17 May) and ask for a letter to be posted to you. This must be at least 5 days after you’ve completed your course of the vaccine, the letter may to take up to 5 days to reach you.
Kind regards Darwen Healthlink
Legal Duty to self-isolate after a positive COVID-19 Test
Legal duty to self-isolate - people in England will be required by law to self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 or are contacted by NHS Test and Trace. Fines will also be introduced from today for those breaching self-isolation rules, starting at £1,000, in line with the existing penalty for breaking quarantine after international travel. This could increase to up to £10,000 for repeat offences and the most serious breaches, including for those preventing others from self-isolating. Employers who force or allow staff to come to work when they should be selfisolating will also be liable for fines of up to £10,000.
- Covid-19 Grab Sheets
- CV19 Grab sheet 1.pdf
- CV19 Grabsheet 2.pdf
- CV19 Grab Sheet 3.pdf
- Covid-19 Grab Sheets (Easy Read)
- CV19 Grab sheet 1 easy read.pdf
- CV19 Grab sheet 2 easy read.pdf
- CV19 Grab Sheet 3.pdf
Useful links during COVID-19
- Check if you have corona virus symptoms
- what to do if you or someone you live with has symptoms of coronavirus
- Testing for corona virus
- People at higher risk from corona virus
- corona virus in children
- social distancing advice and changes to everyday life because of coronavirus
- Links for more information about coronavirus
All information on the above links sourced through the most up-to date sources/ re-sources from the NHS UK website. www.nhs.uk
Wearing face masks
The government is advising that the public is to consider wearing face coverings in enclosed public spaces such as shops, when using public transport and visiting health settings including GP surgeries, to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.
Darwen Healthlink is therefore promoting the use of face mask if at all possible when you attend the practice. Further guidance on this can be found using the links below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-advised-to-cover-faces-in-enclosed-spaces
Guide on making your own face mask
Prescribing Desk
From the 10/06/2020 the prescribing desk will now be open each day:
09:00-10:00am - 1 hour
17:00-18:00pm - 1 hour
This is to limit the amount of patients attending the surgery at any one time and therefore reduce the risk of potential covid-19 infection rates
The phone lines will remain the same open from 10:00am-12pm and 14:00pm -16:00pm for queries.
The Reception Desk
Telephone lines and reception desk
08:00am -18:30pm
Please only attend for an appointment if you have received a telephone call and been invited in by the GP Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Practice Nurse or Health Care Assistant.
GP Practice One way system for social distancing
There is now a one way sysetm in operation at the surgery and social distancing measures are in place.
Patients will also notice protective screens are in place at the reception and prescriptions desks, these are purely to protect staff and patients to minimise infection risk.
Patients must follow the new system to abide by goverment social disctancing measures
New message for Face to face appointments (PPE)
The new message is as follows:
"You have an appointment booked today at the surgery and we ask that you wear a face covering, this can be a scarf or a face mask as a precautionary measure against Coronavirus. Visit cdc.gov/coronavirus for more information about cloth face coverings".