The Ker Practice - News

Wearing a face covering on public transport

You must wear a face covering when using public transport in order to prevent the transmission of the virus. For children under 5 years of age or those with particular health conditions who cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering because of any physical or mental illness or impairment or disability or without severe distress an exemption applies.

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Changes to B12 prescriptions

Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the national guidance for patients who are usually on B12 injections is to now switch to oral preparations.  This will be done for each patient as required.  Please only contact the surgery when your ...

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Attending the surgery

When attending the surgery can we request that patients attend either alone or with one carer when possible.  This will limit the number of potential contacts if someone is to be taken unwell.

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Surgery Closure

As of 16th March 2020 The Ker Practice will be closing from 1pm to 2pm everyday for the foreseeable future.  This is to allow for any updates with regard to the Covid-19 outbreak to be discussed amongst all staff.

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Preferred Pharmacy

In order to reduce the footfall in the surgery during the Covid-19 outbreak can we ask that all patients who normally collect their prescriptions from reception contact us to nominate their preferred pharmacy instead.  When ordering your ...

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Coronavirus update

There will be no routine appointments at The Ker Practice due to the ongoing situation with Covid-19. Pre-booked appointments will instead receive a triage phone call from a GP. If you require any medical advice, please call the ...

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Coronavirus

As no doubt you have seen in the news the NHS is working hard to keep everyone healthy and with this in mind we ask anyone with ANY respiratory symptoms not to attend the surgery, but to instead call and request a GP triage call.  This will ...

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Missed appointments

In 2019, there were 2219 missed appointments at the Ker Practice! 1209 of these were appointments with a GP and 1010 were appointments with a Nurse. Please cancel an appointment you can no longer attend/no longer need with as much notice as ...

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Happy New Year 2020!

The Doctors, Nurses and all the staff here at the Ker Practice would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our patients a very Happy and Healthy New Year!

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GP Availability

Please be aware there will be no GP consulting at our Croftfoot site on the following date: Friday 22nd November 2019 afternoon Reception staff will be operating as normal for telephone calls, prescription collecting etc. Calls will be ...

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