Dear Patients,

It is with regret that we inform you Dr Sinead Kelly-Keating will be leaving the practice on the Friday 29^th July 2022.

Sinead has been a valued member of our medical team for the last 9 years and has looked after many of our patients over those years.  We are fully aware that this will have an impact on you, our patients, and we would like to reassure you that we will do our utmost to look after you after Sinead’s departure.

We would like to wish Sinead all the very best in her future career.

Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.

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.

2nd Booster Vaccine Clinics – we are currently not running 2nd booster clinics, please visit the HSE website for details on eligibility and vaccination centres

https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/booking/

New patients – we are currently 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 and the current post pandemic situation in our health service. 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.

We have changed the scheduling format of our appointments to try and best meet your needs. Routine appointments are now scheduled for the mornings, these are booked in advance and are hopefully with the GP of your choice. Afternoon appointments are same day appointment, 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.

Please respect the goodwill of all the staff at the Parks, we are trying 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.

We will be running a 4^th dose Covid Booster clinic on Wednesday 11^th May 2022 (MRNA Moderna Vaccine). 

All patients aged 65 and older are eligible for this vaccine, however they must be either 4 months post 3^rd booster or 4 months recovery from the Covid 19 illness. 

If you fall into the above criteria and would like your 4^th dose of Covid Booster vaccine, please call us on 01 8203303 to make your appointment. 

We will add on additional clinics should there be suitable demand for this booster vaccine.

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.

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