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1 News from Elvington Medical Practice View this email in your browser Contents Happy New Year Winter flu jabs It's not too late to join Dry and welcome to our January and learn to love your first electronic liver! Farewells newsletter As Senior Partner at Elvington Do you know someone who Medical Practice, it gives me great would like to join our mailing list? pleasure to welcome you to our first Location of the Dunnington electronic newsletter, which we Surgery have produced to improve Join our Patient Representation communication with our patients Group and friends in the villages of Results of the inspection by the Elvington, Wheldrake and Care Quality Commission now Dunnington, and the surrounding available areas. Happy New Year and welcome to our first electronic newsletter We are keen to provide patients New Defibrillators in Elvington with important information about the Introducing you to our practice, and to share information appointments system about health and wellbeing in an Dr Lightwing to be honoured by easily accessible way.

2 This will Hull York Medical School complement our website, which will Staff team at Elvington Medical continue to be the main way we Practice communicate with our patients, and Services available at Elvington which is always available at Medical Practice Healthy links If other members of your household, friends or family members would like to receive the next edition of the practice newsletter, you can provide the email address via the sign up Winter flu jabs form. A number of our patients have yet to have their flu jab this winter. If you Over the next couple of months we missed our walk-in immunisation sessions in the Autumn, there is still will be asking what you would like time to receive the jab. Eligible the newsletter to include in future patients are invited to contact the issues.

3 To be a part of this surgery to arrange an appointment conversation, please reply to this with the practice nurse. To check if email, or send your comments to you are entitled to a free flu jab, our Patient Representation Group. please take a look at the NHS. website Please can I assure you that all email addresses provided to us remain confidential and will only ever be used to send the practice newsletter, and will never be passed onto any other individual or organisation. Furthermore, you are free to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. With best wishes for 2016. Dr David Lightwing It's not too late to join Dry January and learn to love your liver! The liver is the second largest New Defibrillators in organ in the body (the skin is the Elvington largest) and it's also one of the We are delighted to report that most important ones.

4 The liver's Elvington now has access to two of its main job is to filter toxins from the own defibrillators, thanks to the blood so if it's not working amazing efforts of local resident Colin properly there is a much higher Skelton. Mr Skelton, who in his spare risk of all sorts of health problems time is a volunteer Community First developing. As with most health Responder for the Yorkshire problems, alcohol, smoking and Ambulance Service, ran both the diet pose the biggest threats to Great North Run and the York the liver, and so controlling these Marathon in 2015 to raise funds to is the easiest way to improve your enable the purchase of two public liver health. access Automated External Defibrillators for the village. The two January is the national 'AEDs' are located on the outside wall awareness month of the British of the village hall, and outside the main entrance to Elvington Medical Liver trust , 'Love Your Liver'.

5 Practice. Their message is simple: take three steps to a healthy liver by If the need arises, members of the being aware of the risks arising public can quickly access either unit to from alcohol, obesity and viral help someone in need. City of York hepatitis. You may also have Council has also provided a grant to heard of 'Dry January', which the Parish Council to enable the encourages people to give up purchase of a training AED, which will alcohol for a month, which also be used at two forthcoming improves liver health. familiarisation sessions, on Saturday, February 20th and Saturday, February If you overindulged during the 27th between 12 noon and 4pm at festive season and overworked Elvington Village Hall. These are drop your liver, now is the time to have in sessions, where Community First another look at your diet and see Responders will spend around 15.

6 How you can take steps to help minutes showing residents the kit so your liver recover more quickly. they are familiar with what to do Click here for information about should the need arise. Dry January; and here to learn how to love your liver. Both these Dr David Lightwing, Senior Partner at websites aim to teach us about Elvington Medical Practice said: 'We appreciate the effort that Colin has put the dangers to the liver and how into this initiative which provides local to avoid them. access to resuscitation equipment. I. know how much training he put into completing the marathon and he Farewells thoroughly deserves the collective On behalf of all the staff and thanks and praise of the local patients of the practice, both past community.

7 '. and present we would like to The photo above shows Parish wish Dr Urszula Dudek a very Council Chairman Ian Bailey, Happy and fulfilling retirement, Community First Responder Des after 27 years at the practice. Sykes, Elvington Medical Practice Senior Partner Dr David Lightwing and We would also like to wish Dr fundraiser and Community First Aaron Brown best wishes for the Responder Colin Skelton. future as he moves on from If you would like to find out more about Elvington Medical Practice to join Colin's endeavours, please visit Clifton Medical Practice. his fundraising page. Do you know Introducing you someone who to our appointments would like to join system In 2015 we held over 32,000. our mailing list? appointments at the practice,which You have received this electronic works out at over 100 per day - and newsletter as you have previously that doesn't take into account all the provided the practice with your phone calls and other consultations email address and agreed that we the doctors make each day.

8 To make it can use it to contact you. If you possible to see this many patients, we know anyone who would like to join have a range of clinicians and the mailing list, and receive the next appointment types available, as it is edition of the newsletter in the not always necessary to see a GP. spring, please click here to enter their details. Our receptionists are trained to ask If you would like to change the patients requesting appointments the address that we use to send you nature of the consultation that they the practice newsletter, please require. Please do not be worried or follow the link at the bottom of the offended by this enquiry: we ask our screen. staff to gather this information in order to direct patients to the best person to Remember, all the email meet their needs, so that the most addresses provided to us are only appropriate care can be provided.

9 Used to send the practice Anything that you tell any of our staff is newsletter, and will not be passed always treated in the strictest onto any other or organisation. confidence, and we understand that You can unsubscribe from the you may not always want to share this newsletter at any time by clicking information. the link below. All appointments are expected to last ten minutes, and to address one problem. To help us give all our Location of the patients the time they need, and also Dunnington to avoid long waiting times, please bear this in mind when booking your Surgery appointment. It is possible to book Patients in Dunnington can now double' appointments if you need to access our medical services at address more than one problem.

10 The MyHealth Healthcare Centre, based in Petercroft Lane. Both GP and nurse appointments There is a full list of appointments on are available, with surgeries our website, where you will also find taking place between and advice on how to get the most from 12 noon on a Tuesday and your appointment. If you're not sure Thursday. Appointments can be who you need to see, please ask a booked by phone or in person at receptionist. the Elvington surgery. Information about any health questions or concerns can also be accessed day and night via the NHS. symptom checker. Dr Lightwing to be honoured by Hull York Medical School Join our Patient As many of you will know, the practice Representation is officially designated as a Hull York Medical School teaching practice, Group offering medical students and The Elvington Medical Practice trainee GPs the opportunity to learn Patient Representation Group from the experience that our doctors meets quarterly to discuss patients' have.