Organ Donation

What is the NHS Organ Donor Register?

The NHS Organ Donor Register is a confidential record of people's organ donation decisions.

It records your choice whether to become an organ donor or not when you die.

You can also use it to nominate someone to make an organ donation decision on your behalf.

Why Register an Organ Donation Decision?

When you register your organ donation decision, you are helping your loved ones to know what you want.

Organ donation will only go ahead with the support of your family, and clinicians will never proceed with organ donation if your family or loved ones object.

If you are able to become an organ donor in the future, a specialist nurse will check the NHS Organ Donor Register to see if you had recorded a decision and discuss this with those closest to you.

Without your decision to help them, your loved ones may be unsure what to do.

Act now to save lives in future.

For more information: Organ Donation Website

Flu Clinics

You can now start booking your appointment for a flu vaccine at Kew Surgery.  Please read information below to guide you on who is eligible.

Patients detailed below that are eligible for the flu vaccination from 1st September 2024 will be contacted once we are in receipt of the vaccine, to arrange an appointment.

From 1 September 2024:

• pregnant women
• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6) – this will be administered at School by School Immunisation Team.
• secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11) – this will be administered at School by School Immunisation Team.
• all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 year

Eligible patients from October 2024

Appointments are now available from 2nd October 2024 onwards. Appointments can be booked by contacting the surgery (after 11am when the lines are not as busy).

• those aged 65 years and over
• those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
• those in long-stay residential care homes
• carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
• close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants

Flu appointments for 2 - 3 year olds, and Under 18's who are eligible

Dear Parents and Guardians of children aged between 2 and 3 years and those under 18 eligible for a nasal spray flu vaccine, we wanted to inform you that our practice will contact you soon (to vaccinate in mid-September).

We will contact you by text or letter to invite your child to receive their nasal spray flu vaccine at Kew Surgery.

Our nurses are dedicated to ensuring your children stay healthy during flu season, and we encourage you to bring them in for this important preventive measure.

Your child's well-being is our top priority, and we look forward to seeing them at the surgery for their nasal spray flu vaccine appointment.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination - aged 75 to 79

RSV vaccination from September 2024

A vaccine to help protect against RSV will be available on the NHS from 1 September 2024.

You'll be able to get the vaccine if:

• you're aged 75 to 79
• you're 28 weeks pregnant or more – this will help protect your baby for the first few months after they're born
• If you're aged 75 to 79, your GP surgery will contact you about getting vaccinated. Please wait to be contacted.

From September, you can speak to your maternity service or GP surgery about getting your RSV vaccination if you're 28 weeks pregnant or more.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine - 28 weeks pregnant or more

RSV vaccination from September 2024

A vaccine to help protect against RSV will be available on the NHS from 1 September 2024.

You'll be able to get the vaccine if:

• you're aged 75 to 79
• you're 28 weeks pregnant or more – this will help protect your baby for the first few months after they're born
• If you're aged 75 to 79, your GP surgery will contact you about getting vaccinated. Please wait to be contacted.

From September, you can speak to your maternity service or GP surgery about getting your RSV vaccination if you're 28 weeks pregnant or more.

Welcome to our new website!

We have worked hard behind the scenes to bring you a highly accessible and user friendly website, to help you to book appointments, repeat prescriptions and find test results as easy and quickly as possible.

We have designed our new website with our patients in mind and we hope it makes your experience with our surgery even better.

The key tasks that our new website will help you to carry out are:

• Book an appointment
• Get help and advice online (PATCHS)
• Order a repeat prescription
• Register at this surgery
• Find out your test results
• Request a fit note

Our website links to the NHS England website to ensure that while looking at the Ainsdale Village Surgery website, you will find the most up to date health information from the NHS around vaccinations, screening, mental health and other services.

You will notice that we have chosen to use the trusted NHS colours, blue and white. This way you can be confident that you have come to the right place to find information about your healthcare.

We have also included a handy NHS number finder tool in our footer on every page for whenever you need to know your NHS number quickly.

We hope that you enjoy using our new website and we would love to hear any feedback that you may have.