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Macmillan Cancer

One in three of us will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will ever face. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or a loved one has, you’ll want a team of people in your corner supporting you every step of the way. Macmillan provide practical, medical and financial support and push for better cancer care.

Marie Curie Cancer Care

Marie Curie Cancer Care is a UK charity dedicated to the care of people with terminal cancer and other illnesses. Over the financial year 2010/11, we reached a total of 31,799 patients

Youth Health Talk

Youthhealthtalk enables young people, their family and friends, and professionals such as doctors and teachers to understand young people's experiences of health, illness and life in general. The website feature real-life accounts of issues such as effect on work and education, social life and relationships, consulting health professionals and treatment.

Welcome to Shaftesbury Medical Centre

We offer medical care of the highest standard.

We treat all our patients as individuals and we believe in sharing information about your care with you so that together we can make decisions about the best way to manage your care.

CORONAVIRUS

PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THE PRACTICE IF YOU HAVE:

- TRAVELLED AND RETURNED FROM WUHAN PROVINCE/CHINA IN THE LAST 14 DAYS

- EXPERIENCING ANY COLD AND FEVER SYMPTOMS

- HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH CONFIRMED DIAGNOSED CORONAVIRUS PATIENT

PLEASE CALL THE PRACTICE AND
BOOK A TELEPHONE APPOINTMENT WITH THE DOCTOR OR CALL NHS 111

THIS IS TO REDUCE THE RISK OF SPREAD OF INFECTION

For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public

Our mission statement: "To deliver top quality care, equally accessible to all patients"

Flu Clinics

Please call the surgery on 0208 423 5500 to book your appointment to have the Flu Immunisation under the NHS for eligible patients.

Bookings can be made from September 2019 to end of March 2020.

Dear patient, please speak to reception staff, we are happy to accommodate when convenient for you.

Patients Access

FAXES

Please note, Shaftesbury Medical Centre will cease to use a FAX machine, effective from 1^st April 2020,as per NHS guidance. We request that any correspondence which may have previously been sent by FAX, is now sent electronically to the following email address: shaftesburymedical.centre@nhs.net

Merger with King’s Road Medical Centre

We are in the process of a merger with King’s Road Medical Centre. CCG has been informed about this intention.

Shaftesbury Medical Centre has one site and King’s Road medical centre has two sites (one in South Harrow and one in Eastcote). All 3 sites will remain fully open and active.

We have informed the patients about the merger on the last Patient Participation Group Meeting held on Wednesday 6^th November 2019.

The planned merger would give patients greater access to GPs, nurses and other primary care support services, and would also allow the both practices to function more efficiently.

This means patients will still be able to see the same staff in these locations for face-to-face appointments.

The partners of the existing two practices say: “A merger will bring benefits for our patients, enabling us as GPs to continue to offer high quality and diverse services; while streamlining some of our systems and processes to support patients better.

As a merged practice with a growing population, we want to deliver improved services for all our patients, giving them the best experience possible. We will also be better able to support those with complex, long term needs by sharing the resources and skills of our practice staff.

We want to reassure our patients that we don’t expect these changes to affect the way they use our services. This is a really exciting opportunity for the two practices and we believe it will bring great benefit to all patients.

Patient registration will be unaffected by the proposed merger.

(Site updated 11/02/2020)