WHAT RESTRICTIONS WILL LOOK LIKE FROM 19TH JULY 2021

For the time being there will be no changes here at Student Health. Patients coming to the surgery will still need to wear a mask, use the hand sanitiser and socially distance. Our staff will continue to wear appropriate PPE. We have made this decision because often patients coming to the surgery are sick, vulnerable and maybe unvaccinated due to medical reasons, so we feel that these precautions will help to protect everyone. We also need to minimise the number of our staff catching Covid so we can keep a functioning service, so for this reason alone these measures are vital.

Consultations will continue; these might be offered as face to face, by phone or by video. Our doors are open but just in a different way.We hope you will understand why we need to continue with these measures and keep the surgery as safe for everyone as we can. Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe.

We apologise if waiting times on the phone are longer than previously, as more work is being done over the telephone and we have a finite number of telephone lines. If your question is administrative rather than medical e.g. you need a medical certificate, report, or letter, consider doing this online via e-consult.

BLOOD TESTS- due to a global shortage of blood test tubes, we have been asked to restrict the blood tests we do, to emergency blood test only or those needed for certain medications. We may therefore ask you to delay less urgent tests and to call back to book them in at a later date.