As of 2025 as a surgery we would like to statistics our patients.

Please see below for September 2024 to the 2nd week of January2025.
We would like make patients aware of how hard our teams work within the surgery at Darley Dale, Winster and Youlgreave surgeries.
As of 2025 as a surgery we would like to statistics our patients.

Please see below for September 2024 to the 2nd week of January2025.
We would like make patients aware of how hard our teams work within the surgery at Darley Dale,

The Practice has recently invested in a system called 'Abtrace' to support medication monitoring management for patients.

The new systems allows us to issue automated invitations to patients who are due regular monitoring of bloods, BP and weight for medication monitoring.

This new service will go-live from Tuesday 25 March 2025.

Patients who are due medication monitoring will receive either an SMS or email with a link to book an appointment with the Practice.

When a patient selects the appointment booking link, the patient will be directed to the NHS app, where they will be given option of appointments available across our 3 sites over the next 28 days.

We are looking to align all medication monitoring management for patients to reduce the number of visits each patient attends the Practice over the year by completing all medication management at the same time rather than in individual appointments.

We strongly encourage our patients to use the new automated appointment booking process where possible please.

 We're hoping that this new service will:

• Reduce telephone calls to the Practice – allowing additional time for clinically urgent queries
• Reduce the number of visits a patient needs to attend the Practice over the year – opening up more appointment capacity

Kind regards

The Management Team

Credas Medical

Whilst GP surgeries do not yet have all of the details; we wanted to take the opportunity to explain what this means with an aim to reduce any worries or concerns about the NHS and GP Practices:

• The closure of NHS England will not directly impact GP Practices.
• NHS England is one element of the NHS who support the Government with the overall running of the NHS by managing the funding, policies & process etc.
• Any important work completed by NHS England will be outsourced to another appropriate part of the NHS.

Integrated Care Boards (ICB's) who manage the funding & contracts for GP Practices will remain in place and will continue their work with GP Practices to minimise any impact.

The NHS overall will still exist and will continue to service patients in the same way we do currently.

There is talk that the Government would like to transfer some patient services from secondary care into primary care with funding – the details of such services are currently unknown – however, we see this as a positive step forward for the future of primary care.

GP Practices offer excellent patient services for an effective cost and would be happy to review and introduce new patient services with appropriate funding in the future.

During the winter local authorities provide emergency beds for people sleeping rough. This is activated when the temperature drops below a certain point for a certain amount of time (this may be applied differently across different local authorities and councils).

In Derbyshire, people need to approach their local council (rather than Derbyshire County Council) to access these provisions or to find out if these provisions have been put in place. If it is outside of the usual council opening hours, the Derbyshire Outreach Team should be contacted (details below).

• To contact the out of hours team: Derbyshire Outreach Team (DOT) - P3
• Out Of Hours number: 0808 1692 333
• Outreach Team e-mail: DOT@p3charity.org  
• Additional support during severe weather: Severe weather planning - Derbyshire County Council
• Updates from DCC on road closures, location of grit bins, changes to bin collections etc: Latest snow update - Derbyshire County Council

• We know that people may be concerned about their own health following recent media coverage, so we have set up a new online resource for patients and the public to find help and support - https://nhs.uk/infected-blood-support
• Since 1991, all blood donated in the UK is screened and distributed by NHS Blood and Transplant following rigorous safety standards and testing to protect both donors and patients.
• Since testing has been introduced, the risk of getting an infection from a blood transfusion or blood products is very low. 
• All blood donors are screened at every donation and every donation is tested before it is sent to hospitals. Blood services and blood safety has been transformed, not only in terms of technological advances in testing but also in the way donors are recruited and checked they are safe to donate.
• Given the time that has elapsed since the last use of infected blood products, most of those who were directly affected have been identified and started appropriate treatment. However, there may be a small number of patients where this is not the case, and particularly where they are living with asymptomatic hepatitis C
• If you are concerned about a possible hepatitis C infection, you can book a home NHS test online. The tests are free and confidential. To receive a self-testing kit which can be quickly dispatched to your home visit hepctest.nhs.uk.
• Hepatitis B is also linked to infected blood, this usually clears up on its own without treatment, but could develop into chronic hepatitis B.  Patients can find out more information here - hepatitis B information
• HIV testing is also provided to anyone free of charge on the NHS.  Home testing and home sampling kits are also available.  You can find out more about HIV testing and the HIV testing services search tool on the NHS website.
• Patients who want more details about the safety of blood from donations in England can find more information here:  https://www.blood.co.uk/the-donation-process/further-information/your-safety/

The Surgery would like to invite you to use the NHS App

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Patients who are concerned that they may be at risk of hepatitis C can now do a simple test at home to find out if they have hepatitis C using the new hepatitis C testing website.