Practice Update 11/01/2021

Due to the high circulation of the Covid-19 Virus in the community we will continue to do telephone triage/telephone consultations until directed otherwise by Public Health/ICGP

What does this mean?

  1. If you need to see a doctor, please call us on 01 8203303. Our phones lines are extremely busy so thank you for your patience, we will get to you.
  2. You will receive a call from your GP and your symptoms will be managed over the phone. Should a prescription be required this will be emailed to your chosen pharmacy.
  3. Should your GP decide you need urgent attention and it is not covid related, an appointment will be given with one of our GP’s who will look after the most urgent medical issue ONLY. Unfortunately, we cannot offer a GP of choice service presently. All covid related problems will be referred to the community hubs.
  4. This face to face consultation will be carried out in the safest possible way for both patient and GP with all infection controls in place and only the most urgent issue will be dealt with at this time.
  5. For all routine services like blood tests, we are not carrying them out currently and will review this on a week to week basis.  Ante natal appointments will resume next week, as will childhood vaccinations.  These will be designated clinics with all infection controls adhered to.  They will be booked in on a phased basis and we ask for your patience while we work through these appointments.

We will ask any patients feeling unwell NOT to attend these appointments. 

Ante natal: 

  1. You will be given your scheduled appointment time.
  2. Arrive for your appointment and ring the buzzer to let us know you have arrived.
  3. Wait outside in your car, keep your phone on and available.
  4. The GP will ring you and go through all the necessary information prior to bringing you in.
  5. You will be brought into our designated consulting room for the examination part of the visit.
  6. Only the examination part of the visit will be done, no other queries can be dealt with.
  7. The GP will be in full PPE gear.

Childhood Vaccines

  1. You will be given your scheduled appointment time.
    1. Arrive for your appointment, just one well parent/guardian and the child to be vaccinated should come for this appointment.
    1. Ring the buzzer to let us know you have arrived.
    1. Wait outside in your car, keep your phone on and available.
    1. The Practice Nurse will ring you and go through all the necessary information prior to bringing you in.
    1. You and the child to be vaccinated will be brought into our designated consulting room
    1. Only the vaccination will be done, no other queries can be dealt with.
    1. The Practice Nurse will be in full PPE gear.
  • There is a fee of 40 euro for telephone consultations and no fee for medical card patients and to ease the pressure on our phone lines we are asking that this payment is made when making the appointment.
  • Prescription requests will be managed in the same way as before, ring or drop in your prescription request. This will be reviewed by your GP and your prescription will be emailed to your chosen pharmacy. There is a 10 euro charge for this and we will ask for payment upon request to alleviate the pressure on our phone lines.
  • Certs- this will be managed on an individual basis, there may be a 10 euro charge for certs.
  • All the above is subject to change as we move forward however, we will keep you up to date on this website.