Current clinical capacity

Posted on January 3rd, 2022

Firstly can we wish you all a very happy New Year, we would really like to thank everyone who gave generous Christmas gifts to the staff at the Practice, they are certainly not expected but very gratefully received.

In a previous message we updated you on capacity issues within the whole NHS which were also affecting our Practice. Unfortunately along with most providers of health and social care the significant rise in Covid-19 cases bought about by the Omicron variant have placed additional pressures onto our system whilst also having a major impact on the availability of staff to be at work.

To ensure we can provide a safe service for patients with an acute need for care we are planning to continue, for the next week, to prioritise those cases where we feel your care cannot wait.

If you feel that you can wait until next week then please do so, this will certainly help.

We don’t take decisions like this lightly and are doing this to ensure we can provide a safe service during unprecedented times within the NHS.

We would like to thank you in advance for your support. We recognise that we are very lucky to serve the community that we do, we are doing everything that we can to bring services back to normal as quickly as possible, thank you.