JOHN RYLE MEDICAL PRACTICE PATIENT NEWSLETTER WINTER 2017/18 WELCOME Welcome to our Winter newsletter. Xmas and New Year Closures Please note that the Practice will be closed on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th December and Monday 1st January. If you require urgent medical treatment when we are closed, please ring 111. Dr Stephen Riley Dr Riley is leaving us at the end of February. He and his family are moving to Pembrokshire. We wish them all the very best and would like to thank Dr Riley for his many years of dedicated service at John Ryle. Our 2 new Doctors We are extremely pleased to announce that we have 2 new Doctors starting with us at the beginning of March 2018: Dr Priya Lakshmanan currently working in a Practice within the South West Lincolnshire area. – Dr Sherene Thomas has just finished at a Practice in Burton Joyce and is now doing some – locum sessions. We hope you will join us in welcoming both Doctors and support them whilst they settle into the Practice. Signposting Health About SignpostingHealth the best “Helping patients choose help, first time” SignpostingHealth is an Active Signposting programme developed by the . NCGPA are a federation of 47 GP Practices in Nottingham City. We developed SignpostingHealth to help our practices meet the challenge set by NHS England and the RCGP in the GP Forward View, to to all GP deliver ‘Active Signposting’ training Receptionists. People are living longer and are developing more complicated illnesses; which is putting pressure on health care services such as your local GP surgery. This increasing number of patients also means it can be hard to get an appointment with your GP as quickly as you would perhaps like. For some symptoms, patients may be able to self-care or go directly to the service they require, without the need for seeing their GP. But given the volume of services available, how is the patient to know how to access them or indeed which one they need?
JOHN RYLE MEDICAL PRACTICE PATIENT NEWSLETTER WINTER 2017/18 WELCOME Welcome to our Winter newsletter. Xmas and New Year Closures Please note that the Practice will be closed on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th December and Monday 1st January. If you require urgent medical treatment when we are closed, please ring 111. Dr Stephen Riley Dr Riley is leaving us at the end of February. He and his family are moving to Pembrokshire. We wish them all the very best and would like to thank Dr Riley for his many years of dedicated service at John Ryle. Our 2 new Doctors We are extremely pleased to announce that we have 2 new Doctors starting with us at the beginning of March 2018: Dr Priya Lakshmanan – currently working in a Practice within the South West Lincolnshire area. Dr Sherene Thomas – has just finished at a Practice in Burton Joyce and is now doing some locum sessions. We hope you will join us in welcoming both Doctors and support them whilst they settle into the Practice. Signposting Health About SignpostingHealth “Helping patients choose the best help, first time” SignpostingHealth is an Active Signposting programme developed by the . NCGPA are a federation of 47 GP Practices in Nottingham City. We developed SignpostingHealth to help our practices meet the challenge set by NHS England and the RCGP in the GP Forward View, to deliver ‘Active Signposting’ training to all GP Receptionists. People are living longer and are developing more complicated illnesses; which is putting pressure on health care services such as your local GP surgery. This increasing number of patients also means it can be hard to get an appointment with your GP as quickly as you would perhaps like. For some symptoms, patients may be able to self-care or go directly to the service they require, without the need for seeing their GP. But given the volume of services available, how is the patient to know how to access them or indeed which one they need?