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Woolpit Health Centre now has both Facebook and Twitter accounts.
If you’re a patient at our practice you can now use the new NHS App, a simple and secure way to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.
Welcome to Woolpit Health Centre
Based in the Suffolk village of Woolpit, the Health Centre aims to provide:
“the type of care that we would expect for ourselves and our own families.”
We provide services to over 15,500 patients who live in a practice area of 75 square miles of rural West Suffolk, straddling the A14, between Thurston in the west, and Haughley in the east.
We pride ourselves on the high standards of our care – we are holders of the Royal College of General Practitioners Practice Accreditation Award, a quality mark held by only 19 practices in the UK.
Our 7 GP partners and 4 non-partner GPs lead a multidisciplinary team of nurses, health care assistants, pharmacists and midwives all of whom are based in our purpose-built premises.
We are passionate about training the next generation of doctors – most of our current team have been trainees here in the past. Therefore as an accredited training practice we host Medical Students from the University of Cambridge, Foundation Doctors from the West Suffolk Hospital and GP Registrars from Ipswich and the West Suffolk Hospitals throughout the year.
We are a dispensing practice which means that we provide medications to all our patients who live over 1 mile from their nearest pharmacy.
Woolpit Health Centre is a ‘Research Active Practice’ – a part of the Primary Care Research Network, assisting with clinical research into how medications can be used to improve the health of our patients.
- 2024-25 Autumn / Winter Flu and COVID-19 Seasonal Vaccination Campaign Aug 22, 2024In line with government guidance, the main 2024-25 autumn / winter flu and COVID-19 seasonal vaccination campaign commences in early October.
The following groups are eligible for both vaccinations:
- Residents in a care home for older adults;
- All adults aged 65 years and over;
- Persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group.
Woolpit Health Centre will be running clinics throughout October and November. Eligible patients will receive an invitation via SMS, email or letter.
Housebound patients will be notified of their vaccination date by telephone.
During this busy time, we try hard to minimise disruption to our core primary care services. This includes protecting our Care Navigation / Reception team so that they can remain focused on supporting patients who need triaging into urgent and routine appointments.
We have a small number of staff who are dedicated to managing our vaccination programmes. During the season they handle large numbers of telephone and email enquiries.
Request to Patients
- Please wait for your invitation via SMS, email or letter.
- Upon receipt please only contact the team if you need to change your appointment or cannot use the SMS booking link.
- Our preference is for email contact as this keeps the phone line free and is an efficient way to communicate. Our email address is covid19queries@nhs.net.
- If you need to phone our vaccine line the number is 01359 243941.
- Throughout September, a member of the vaccine team will be available in reception between the hours of 10:00 -12:00 Mondays and Fridays.
- Finally, we ask you please to be patient, whichever way you contact us we will get back to you. There is no need to leave multiple messages, this only slows down our responses. Be reassured, we have plenty of vaccine and plenty of appointments.
We look forward to another successful vaccination season.
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccination Aug 6, 2024
In line with a new Government campaign, Woolpit Health Centre will begin vaccinations to protect against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) on 1st September 2024.
The single dose vaccination will be offered to eligible patients only, as listed below:
Programme for older adults aged 75 to 79 years old
- From 1st September, patients will be invited as they turn 75 years of age.
- Patients who are already aged 75 to 79 years old on 1 September 2024.
The vaccinations will be delivered by our nursing team in small clinics.
We will be in contact with eligible patients shortly to invite you to book.
Programme for pregnant women to protect infants
- All women who are at least 28 weeks pregnant on 1 September 2024. After that, pregnant women will become eligible as they reach 28 weeks gestation and remain eligible up to birth.
Please discuss with your midwife.
For more information on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and eligible patients please follow the links below.
- Chase a Referral Feb 26, 2024
To chase your referral and current waiting times for clinics and scans, please click here
- Woolpit Health Centre Pharmacy Facebook Page Aug 16, 2022
Click here to head over to our new Woolpit Health Centre Pharmacy Page for all posts relating to our Pharmacy.
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