COVID19 - Patient Information

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

 

 UK Government Guidance

Information for the public on the outbreak of coronavirus in China, including the current situation in the UK and information about the virus and its symptoms. 

 

UK Government Blog on everything you need to know about the Coronavirus

 

Guidance issued by Welsh Government 

 

Public Health Wales is working closely with the Welsh Government and the other UK public health agencies to carefully monitor the situation in China and implement our planned response, with measures in place to protect the health of the public.

 

Details and information on the Mass Vaccine Programme across Cardiff & Vale.

COVID Vaccinations

The surgery has signed up to provide the University of Oxford, AstraZeneca vaccine with Cardiff & Vale University Health Board. We are in the process of acquiring the necessary accreditation to enable us to start vaccinating. At the moment we will ONLY be able to immunise the over 80s in line with the national priority list. (This will not include patients in residential or care homes as the mass vaccination centre are organising this). There are a number of planning activities the practice has to complete before we can start calling in patients for immunisations, so we would appreciate your patience during this time. We also need to await delivery of the vaccine, so this will take time. Once everything is in place we will automatically start calling patients in for appointments, beginning with the over 80s.

At this time, we have not been instructed by the Health Board to vaccinate Patients aged under 80 years or those at risk (including those who were advised to shield). However we will continue to keep patients informed via our website and social media.

 

For information and advice about Covid-19 please visit these websites for further information:

Public Health Wales

Welsh Government

 

Click The Picture Above - For Information on the COVID Vaccine being delivered in Cardiff & Vale

COVID - URGENT UPDATE FOR PATIENTS

Cardiff & Vale and most of Wales, is experiencing unprecedented levels of COVID-19. The Health Board has issued a statement to the community warning of the critical pressure on both primary care and hospitals and the importance now more than ever about following COVID advice. The ability to deliver essential services can be critically impacted by demand and health care staff illness with very little warning.

For this reason, we have taken the difficult decision to once again pause all non-urgent services immediately and, we hope, briefly, to concentrate resources to those most in need and to protect patients and staff by minimising footfall and contact with potential COVID. We will review this daily and update the situation as often as we can to ensure this is for the minimum time possible.

In the meantime, we remain open and available for any urgent concerns and would encourage patients with any doubt as to the urgency of their problem to give as much information as possible to our reception team who will direct you to the most appropriate resources.

Information as to alternate avenues are available on this website, via 111 Wales, Choose Pharmacy, and, if a problem is of the highest urgency, CAV24/7

If your query can wait, we are grateful for your patience in these difficult times and hope that this will be the final push we need to protect the most vulnerable of our community and that the new year will start to bring calm, vaccination and a gradual return to something near normal life.