Please find here recent news from your surgery. We also include a topic in each news update that you may find it interesting to learn more about.

Staffing

In January we welcomed Dr Charlie Mance, joining us as a salaried GP. Dr Mance will also work closely with our Paramedic Practitioner Chrissi and care homes, and with our Clinical Pharmacist Heelen with regard to prescribing.

We also welcomed Nurse Sue to the team in January. Sue has added valuable experience to our nursing team in many treatment room skills such as wound care and vaccinations.

In Dispensary we have recently welcomed Sue and Becky to the team, their training began in March.

Premises

We are very grateful to staff from the soon-to-be new Care Home, Waterhaven Place, who have been in and painting many of our internal walls over the past months. We hope you enjoy the fresher appearance next time you are in the practice!

Following the continued support from the Friends of Tangmere, we will also now go ahead with the addition of an information screen for the waiting room. This will be alongside (not instead of) the variety of helpful printed literature which we provide. Huge thanks to all involved in the fundraising, it will be installed in the next month.

Our next focus areas will be the car park and planning for additional clinical space in the future.

Events

We are currently planning some educational events for patients for 2025. These are likely to be 1 hour events either in the middle of the day, depending on the topic and therefore the likely attendees. Currently we hope to cover Ageing Well, the Menopause and another topic aimed at families and younger children.

Please do let reception know if you have any specific ideas for topics for these.

Topic of the month: Recalls for annual reviews

Our pharmacy and admin teams have been working hard preparing a more efficient process for arranging annual reviews and medication reviews for those who need them each year (or more frequently). Efficient in terms of the invitations but also so that we avoid inviting people for multiple blood tests when everything could be covered by 1.

If you are a mobile phone user you will receive 1 or more messages when the time comes to plan your annual reviews. We have tried to include everything you need to know in the messages so that you can simply follow the guidance to book and prepare for the appointment(s).