Important Information

A message from our Patient Participation Group  -

Please support your GP Surgery

As you will be aware in the October budget, the Government announced that employer national insurance contributions would rise to 15%. At the same time the threshold for payment would fall from £9,100 to £5,000.

While the Government have decided to exclude the public sector including the NHS from being affected by these changes, it has indicated that because most GP surgeries operate as a small business, in this instance it does not recognise GP surgeries as part of the NHS and therefore they will be expected to stand the full cost of these tax rises. Unlike other small businesses however, GP surgeries cannot put their prices up to cover this cost or other inflation costs. This could mean having to look at cutting services, staff etc. to stay within budget.

Given that the amount each surgery receives from the Government for each patient to provide the extensive services it does is only £112.50 per year, you can see that they have to manage on a very limited budget and it is unsurprising that over that last decade over 1,000 GP surgeries have closed. This situation needs to be rectified to ensure the stability and future of our precious GP surgeries.

You can help by raising awareness of this situation by contacting your local MP, Aphra Brandreth either by email at:

aphra.brandreth.mp@parliament.uk

or by letter to: Aphra Brandreth MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

You may wish to copy and paste the above statement as part of your communication and please ensure you include your name, and postal address in the email or the letter.

Thank you, we really appreciate your support and please share this with friends & neighbours!

Patient-led ordering

The way repeat prescriptions are ordered is changing. All patients (who are able to do so) are required to order prescriptions directly from the GP practice.

This means that for the majority of patients, the pharmacy will no longer order prescriptions on their behalf.

From the 1^st December the practice will not accept any prescriptions from the chemist on the patient’s behalf.

Purpose of the change

• Reduce medicine waste. Current arrangements mean that many medicines are routinely ordered but not needed
• Give patients better control over the ordering of their own medication
• Improve safety by avoiding stockpiling of medication and prevent medication that has been stopped from being re-ordered by mistake
• Save practice time (especially if prescriptions are ordered online) with less time spent chasing and processing prescriptions and answering the phone to queries and complaints

How can patients order their medication?

• Online via the GP practice online ordering process or the NHS App – this is the safest and easiest way
• Via the repeat prescription box at the GP practice
• Via email to the GP practice:

Tarporley:  cmicb-cheshire.tarporleyrepeatscripts@nhs.net

Tarvin: cmicb-cheshire.tarvinscripts@nhs.net

Exceptions to the change

The exception will be patients who are unable to order their medication by any of the recommended routes, are vulnerable, and/or housebound.

GPs will work closely with pharmacies to ensure patients who require additional assistance, receive the help they need.

To improve our service and continue to operate a high standard of care to all our patients, Dr Kent and Partners have made the decision to close the Waverton Branch Dispensary.

The dispensary will close from Monday 16th December 2024.

The Waverton Branch Surgery will operate as normal for GP appointments and there will be no changes to the opening times.

The closure of the Waverton Dispensary means that the patients who collected their items from Waverton will no longer be able to.  All our dispensing patients that will be affected by the closure will be contacted directly so alternative arrangements can be made.

Tarvin and Tarporley Dispensary will remain open.  

Due to the closure of the dispensary at Waverton you will no longer be able to order your repeat prescriptions via the following email address:

cmicb-cheshire.wavertonscripts@nhs.net

You will need to order your repeat prescriptions via the below email address or via the NHS APP.

Tarporley:  cmicb-cheshire.tarporleyrepeatscripts@nhs.net

Tarvin: cmicb-cheshire.tarvinscripts@nhs.net