The surgery will be closed on Friday 17th March 2023. Should you need medical assistance please contact our out of hours provider NORTHDOC on 1850 22 44 77

LÁ FHÉILE PÁDRAIG SONA DHUIT!

We will be closed for the bank holiday on Monday 6th February and will reopen Tuesday 7th February.

For medical assistance outside our opening hours please contact Northdoc on1850 22 44 77

We are running Covid Booster Clinics every Thursday afternoon. Please contact us 018203303 to make your appointment.

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.

Christmas Hours 2022

Mon 19^th Dec                     Normal Hours

Tues 20^th Dec                     Normal Hours

Wed 21^st Dec                      Normal Hours

Thurs 22^nd Dec                   Normal Hours                                Non routine/Emergencies ONLY

Fri 23^rd Dec                         9am to last app 1.30pm                Non routine/Emergencies ONLY

The Surgery will then close and reopen on Wednesday 28^th December for Emergencies ONLY

Wed 28^th Dec                     9am to last app 12.30pm               Non routine/Emergencies ONLY

Thurs 29^th Dec                   9am to last app 12.30pm               Non routine/Emergencies ONLY

Fri 30^th Dec                         9am to last app 12.30pm              Non routine/Emergencies ONLY

Normal surgery hours will re-commence on Tuesday 3^rd Jan 2023

For medical assistance outside these hours, please contact our out of hours provider

Northdoc

1850 22 44 77

We would like to wish all our patients and their families a healthy and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Please note there will be a small increase in our fees due to rising costs from Nov 1st 2022.

Full details are available in the fees section of this website.

The main change will see our fee for a GP consultation change from 60 euro to 65 euro.

As a practice we always aim to do our best, to deliver the best medical care we can to you and to your family and we thank you for your continued support.

Children’s Flu Vaccine – Fluenz Tetra (Nasal vaccine)

A live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV). This is given intranasally and recommended for all children aged 2 to 17 years at the time of vaccination. 

We are hoping to schedule our annual children’s flu vaccine clinics. Due to the lack of uptake last year, we have ordered 100 vaccines only.

Please fill out the consent form below, return to the surgery and we will contact you in due course.

Our dedicated Vaccination Clinics will be on Wednesday & Thursday afternoons by appt only from the 5^th October.

The initial programme is aimed at the following group of patients who are eligible to receive the Flu Vaccine and Covid Vaccine.

In general, these are patients over the age of 65 and immunocompromised patients who are:

• 4 to 6 months since last vaccine or since a covid infection.  (In exceptional cases this can be three months.)

Where a patient is not eligible for COVID vaccine or where they choose not to avail of the vaccine, they are entitled and eligible for Flu vaccine only.

Please note these criteria may change as the month goes on so keep an eye on this website for updates.

Flu Vaccine

The 2 Flu vaccines available this year are

• Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine for people with long term conditions and people aged 65 years and older
  • Influvac Tetra, for people with long term conditions and people aged 65 years and older

We are delighted to be able to deliver this service to all our eligible patients. Please see the link below for all details of this service

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/media/pressrel/hse-announces-free-prescription-and-emergency-contraception-for-17-to-25-year-old-women-and-people.html

If you are eligible please contact us on 01 8203303 to make your first GP initial consultation. We will need your PPS number when making the appointment. Only contraception issues can be discussed at this visit, any other medical issues will necessitate a separate consultation.

Fee increase

We will have a small increase in some of our fees from 1^st November 22.  Full details will be  available on our website in due course.  The main increase will be our GP Consultation fee which will see an increase from 60 euro to 65 euro from 1^st November 22.  

New patients

Unfortunately, we are still unable to accept registration of new patients to this practice, patients who may have attended us many years ago and would like to re-register and regrettably to family members of existing patients who would like to move GP’s. This is due to staff shortages. We will continue to review our patient numbers regularly in the hope that this is a temporary measure and will update any change on our website.

We are getting quite a lot of requests from existing patients to see Dr Myra, regrettably Dr Myra’s patient list is full to capacity and cannot take on any more patients, however as a current patient of the practice, you are welcome to see one of our other GP’s.

Appointments

As you know we changed the scheduling format of our appointments earlier this year to try and best meet your needs. On review, this format is working and therefore our appointments will continue this way. To recap, routine appointments will be scheduled for the mornings, and can be booked in advance. Hopefully with the GP of your choice. Afternoon appointments are same day appointments, for issues that need immediate medical care. During these appointments only the issue needing immediate care can be dealt with and we unfortunately cannot guarantee the GP of your choice.  Our phone lines are open from 9am, this is the busiest time for patients ringing looking for appointments, we will always do our best to see as many patients as we can but it is important to note we are limited in how many same day appointments we can facilitate. As our patient we understand the difficulties these delays cause and we thank you for your co-operation.

Please respect the goodwill of all the staff at the Parks, we will continue to always try our best to facilitate as many of you and your requests as is possible.

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.