Welcome to the latest of our weekly newsletters. We regard it as a priority that all patients at our Adlington, Buckshaw, Croston, Eaves Lane Chorley and Lostock Hall surgeries are kept fully informed of news and developments relevant to them. We hope these updates continue to prove useful.
Surgery Christmas Opening Times
We have now finalised our opening times for all our surgeries over the Christmas period. All services will be operating as normal during the opening hours indicated below.
Up to and including Tuesday, December 24: Normal opening hours.
Christmas Day and Boxing Day: Closed.
Friday, December 27: Normal opening hours.
Saturday, December 28: Closed except for pre-booked appointments via our enhanced service.
Sunday, December 29: Closed.
Monday,, December 30 and Tuesday, December 31: Normal opening hours.
New Year’s Day: Closed.
Thursday, January 2 onwards: Normal opening hours.
Outside these times, normal procedures apply ie call 111 for all issues except for emergencies, in which case you should call 999.
Annual Flu Jab and RSV Vaccination Clinics
There is still just time to get your annual flu jab and for eligible patients the RSV jab and we have a series of clinics next week
These clinics are for our registered patients only and are appointment only. Please call your surgery to make an appointment.
All patients are eligible for the flu jab but only patients aged 75-80 are eligible for the RSV jab.
Please note we cannot administer both jabs at the same time and you will have to make separate appointments for each.
Dates of clinics are as follows:
Monday, December 16: Adlington Medical Centre 4pm-5pm.
Tuesday, December 17: The Village Surgery, Lostock Hall 4pm-5pm.
Wednesday, December 18: Buckshaw Village Surgery 4pm-5pm.
Thursday, December 19: Croston Medical Centre 9.30am-10.30am.
Friday, December 20: Eaves Lane Surgery 8.30am-9.30am.
Pharmacy Christmas Opening Times
As you will know, we always advise local pharmacy opening times over the holiday period.
We are attempting to obtain this information and we will pass it on as soon as it’s to hand.
NHS 111 and Pharmacy First
There is always a big demand for appointments at this time of year and while we make every effort to have as many appointments available as possible, to ease that burden patients are encouraged if appropriate to use the NHS 111 service.
This 24 hour service is staffed by qualified health professionals who can if needed arrange a call back from a nurse, doctor or paramedic.
The Pharmacy First service is also available whereby a local pharmacy registered with the scheme can suggest treatments and offer prescription medicine without a GP appointment.
The service can be used if you are suffering from impetigo, infected insect bites, earache, sore throat, sinusitis, urinary tract infections or shingles.