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Practice Update 22/03/2022

New patients – we are currently unable to accept registration of new patients to this practice. We will continue to review our patient numbers regularly in the hope that this is a temporary measure and will update any change on this website.

Mask Wearing – Public Health advise the continuation of mask wearing in healthcare settings in line with evolving national guidance. It will remain the policy of this practice that patients entering this surgery must wear a mask.

Practice Update 4th Jan 2022

Firstly, a very Happy and Healthy New Year to all our patients and their families. Thank you from all at The Parks for your thoughtfulness and generosity shown to us over Christmas. It was greatly appreciated by us all.

Unfortunately due to Covid Staff Shortages, our normal routine clinical services will be impacted and disrupted the week of Tuesday 4th January 2022.

We will, as always, do our level best to continue to look after those who need urgent medical attention and ask for your understanding should we have to reschedule your routine appointment.

We expect Tuesday 4th January to be our busiest day, and our phone lines to be exceptionally busy once again.

Please bear with us, if you have received a text to cancel your appointment, we will be in touch as soon as we can to reschedule.

Please be assured we will do our best to look the most urgent patients.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Update to our Booster Clinic Thurs 23/12/21

Please note we are only able to book patients who are active patients of this practice. We can not accept non patients of the practice

The HSE has advised the following vaccine criteria:

MRNA Moderna Vaccine : this will be administered to patients aged 30 years and older

Pzifer MRNA vaccine: this will be administered to patients under 30 years of age and over 16 years of age.

Phone lines, Prescription Request form, Christmas hours & boosters

Phone lines

We appreciate how busy our phone lines are and the subsequent difficulties in getting through, we have implemented some changes to help and improve our service to you. Please bear with us as we navigate this new system, like all new systems there will be changes and improvements along the way. Please listen to the message and follow the prompt.

Please note for most general queries you will find an update usually in this section of this website

Prescription Policy

To order a prescription the quickest and most effective way to do this is to download our prescription order form from below or it can be found on the links and forms page on this website, fill it out and either drop it into the surgery or email to prescriptions@theparksmedicalcentre.ie 

We will always aim to have your prescription request medically reviewed and emailed to your chosen pharmacy within 72 hours and as always there is a 10 euro fee for all prescriptions except medical card patients, for payment we will send you a secure text message with a link to make your payment online.  This is a system which is widely used by most GP practices.

Please note for repeat prescriptions, all patients must attend their GP for a medication review on at least an annual basis

Christmas Hours

Our surgery hours during the Christmas period can be found in the previous post called “Christmas Hours 2021”. As always should you require medical assistance outside our opening hours, please call Northdoc on 1850 22 44 77

Booster vaccines

We are doing an extra booster vaccine clinic on Thursday 23rd December and we will be doing more in January 2022.

*** Covid Booster Clinic ***

PLEASE NOTE WE CAN ONLY ACCEPT APPOINTMENTS FOR ACTIVELY REGISTERED PATIENTS OF THIS PRACTICE

15/12/21

Covid Booster Clinic

All GP practices have been asked by HSE/IMO to run additional booster clinics before Christmas.  We will do ours on:

Thurs 23rd December 2021

If you are aged 16 years and older

If you are pregnant

Have not been diagnosed with Covid 19 within the last 6 months

And 3 months since your 2nd Vaccine dose

Christmas Opening Hours 2021

Christmas 2021Opening Hours
Monday 20th - Thursday 23rd Dec 2021Normal Hours
Friday 24th Dec 2021Emergency Surgery 9am- last appointment 12pm
Saturday 25th Dec 2021ClosedChristmas Day
Sunday 26th Dec 2021Closed St Stephen's Day
Monday 27th Dec 2021Closed Bank Holiday
Tuesday 28th Dec 2021 Closed Bank Holiday
Wednesday 29th Dec 2021 Emergency Surgery 9am to last appointment 12.15pm
Thursday 30th DecEmergency Surgery 9am - last appointment 12.15pm
Friday 31st Dec - New Years eve Emergency Surgery 9am - last appointment 12pm
Saturday 1st Jan
2022
Closed New Years Day
Sunday 2nd JanClosed
Monday 3rd JanClosed Bank Holiday
Tuesday 4th JanNormal Surgery Resumes

Should you need medical assistance outside our opening hours, please contact Northdoc on 1850 22 44 77

Practice Update 15/11/2021

Covid Boosters

We have almost finished our over 70’s booster vaccine clinics. If you fall into this category and have not received a booster vaccine from us, please let us know and we will make an appointment for you.

Children’s flu vaccine

These clinics are also finished however should you wish to get your child vaccinated, please fill out a consent form and drop it in to us. Depending on HSE stock & delivery, we will do our best to facilitate this.

Phone lines

We appreciate how busy our phone lines are and the subsequent difficulties in getting through, we have implemented some changes to help and improve our service to you. Please bear with us as we navigate this new system, like all new systems there will be changes and improvements along the way.

Please note for most general queries you will find an update usually in this section of this website

Prescription Policy

To order a prescription the quickest and most effective way to do this is to download our prescription order form from below or it can be found on the links and forms page on this website, fill it out and either drop it into the surgery or email to prescriptions@theparksmedicalcentre.ie 

We will always aim to have your prescription request medically reviewed and emailed to your chosen pharmacy within 72 hours and as always there is a 10 euro fee for all prescriptions except medical card patients, for payment we will send you a secure text message with a link to make your payment online.  This is a system which is widely used by most GP practices.

Please note for repeat prescriptions, all patients must attend their GP for a medication review on at least an annual basis.

Practice Update 08/11/2021

Children’s Flu & Covid Booster Clinic

On Saturday 13th November we will be running a designated clinic for our over 70’s patients to receive their Covid Booster. It is the Pfizer vaccine. We are currently making appointments for this clinic, if you fall into this category and haven’t heard from us, please make contact on 018203303. The clinic will run from 9am, it will be a very busy day and we ask for your co-operation once again.

This clinic will also run from 9am to 11am for our children’s flu vaccine. All appointments have now been made and the clinic is full. For those who have an appointment this morning is expected to be very busy, and we are asking all parents for their co-operation to ensure the smooth running of this clinic.

If you would like your child vaccinated and have yet to return a consent form, please do so. We are unsure if the HSE will continue to deliver more vaccines, if they do we will do our utmost to facilitate your child within our normal surgery hours with our practice nurse, Denise. This is HSE delivery dependent and dependent on appointment availability with our nurse.

Our phone lines

Once again our phone lines are unsustainably busy. Each phone call usually generates at least one or two enquiries which all take time to work through. We are doing our best to assist each and every one of you and are currently looking into ways of improving this service for both our patients and our practice staff. Our phone lines will be operational from 9am to 11.30am and from 2pm to 4pm.

If your call is to order a prescription the quickest and most effective way to do this is to download our prescription order from from our website, fill it out and either drop it into the surgery or email to prescriptions@theparksmedicalcentre.ie 

For obtain your blood results, please call our nurses phone in service on 086 2047305.  This service is operational from Tuesday to Friday from 12-1pm. Again this is a very busy service so please bear with us, our nurse is getting to as many patients as possible.

To make or change an appointment please call during the surgery phone times and we will do our level best to get you to as quickly as we can.

As always, thank you for your co-operation and consideration during this very busy time