We will be closed on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th March due to the St Patrick’s day bank holiday. Should you need medical assistance outside our opening hours please contact

Northdoc on 1850 22 44 77

We will re-open on Monday 21st March 2022

28/02/2022

Public Health advises the continuation of mask wearing in healthcare settings in line with evolving national guidance

It is always the policy of this practice to follow all Public Health guidance, therefore all patients entering this surgery must wear a mask.

Thank you for your co-operation.

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.

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

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.

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 23^rd 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 2^nd Vaccine dose

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

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.

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

Covid Booster Vaccines

We have one last clinic scheduled to finish our booster vaccines for our patients aged 80 and over. Please make contact with us if you fall into this category and have not received an appointment.

Children’s Flu Vaccine (nasal)

Due to the low uptake of this vaccine in 2020 our first order received is for 100 vaccines. We are scheduling a designated clinic in November and will be in contact shortly for those who have dropped back the consent forms. Should you wish your child to be vaccinated please complete and return the consent form below and we will do our best to facilitate you.

Childrens-Flu-Vaccine-campaign-2021-Consent-Form.docx

New Prescription Policy

There will a significant change to how you order your prescription from now on. Please see our previous post for all the details however as always we will update this page in due course.

Under 6 children and plan for Winter 2021

We are heading into another Autumn/Winter with our Under 6 contract. Based on this year so far, we envisage the demand to be even greater than previous years.

Our previous experience has shown more often than not that these appointments are made too early and will require a 2nd appointment for review.

This has led to unsustainable pressure for GP appointments, our office continually working off daily cancellation lists, and always try to prioritise those as directed by the GP that need the appointments the most.

We will no longer be working off cancellation lists.

We will have daily designated emergency appointments allocated to facilitate our Under 6 children however as they are not limitless and the demand every growing we need your understanding and co-operation

These appointments are deemed “emergency” appointments meaning the GP can and will only deal with the one presenting issue.

Please respect the nature of these appointments as they are designed to enable us to see your child in a quick and safe environment.

Routine appointments can be made and booked in advance.

And finally, while we would like to thank you for your support and understanding during this very busy period, it is with regret that we have to say, although in the minority, we are experiencing unacceptable demands and behaviour from some of our patients.

Abusive and excessively demanding behaviour towards our staff is not acceptable, it will never be tolerated in this surgery and if directed at any staff member, a change of practice will be required.

Thank you in advance of your co-operation.