Woodhead Medical Practice will be closed on the following dates.
- Friday 29th March 2024
- Monday 1st April 2024
Please make sure that you order your prescriptions in time remembering that Acute prescriptions take 2 working days to process.
Woodhead Medical Practice will be closed on the following dates.
Please make sure that you order your prescriptions in time remembering that Acute prescriptions take 2 working days to process.
We are pleased to announce that our practice list is open to new registrations from Monday 3rd July 2023.
In agreement with the Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board our catchment area now excludes those new patients living in the postcodes G66 1 and G66 5.
Patients currently registered with the practice are unaffected by these changes to new registrations.
The surgery will be closed on Monday 27th September for the local holiday and will reopen on Tuesday 28th September 2021.
A service that allows people travelling abroad to access a record of their vaccination status has been launched. This is an interim solution if you are travelling in next 21 days.
A vaccination status letter can be downloaded from NHS Inform at the link below :
For people not online, they can requested in the post via a Freephone Covid Status Helpline:
The practice will be closed on the following dates :
Please make sure you have sufficient prescription(s) for this period.
Cathy’s convoy AKA Woodhead Medical Practice are taking on the challenge of virtually walking from Lands End to John O’Groats to raise money for Beatson Cancer Care.
Our lovely friend passed away on the 8th of February from lung cancer this year and we miss her everyday.
Although she was not a huge fan of exercise she did love walking if it was to go out shopping or for dinner and drinks.
GPs, nurses and receptionists from Woodhead Medical Practice are assisting the government of the rollout of the COVID vaccination programme. Because of this there will be less appointments available for GPs and nurses over the coming weeks.
Thank you for your patience and please only contact the surgery if you believe your health concern cannot wait.
Homeopathy isn’t widely available on the NHS. In 2017, NHS England recommended that GPs and other prescribers should stop providing it. This is because they found “no clear or robust evidence to support the use of homeopathy on the NHS”.
Report : Clinical evidence for homeopathy (PDF)
Homeopathy is usually practised privately, and homeopathic remedies are available from pharmacies.
There is still the Centre for Integrative Care in Glasgow (based in Gartnavel – formerly known as the Homeopathic hospital) and when a patient receives a consultation there, an integrative care assessment takes place and following this they may or may not receive a recommendation for homeopathic treatment.
The GPs at this practice have taken the decision in line with NHS England and many practices in Scotland that they will no longer be issuing prescriptions for any homeopathic medications, even if they are recommended by the Centre for Integrative Care (CIC). These prescriptions can be purchased privately or obtained from the Gartnavel pharmacy on site at the CIC.
Due to recent increase in COVID-19 cases locally we have had to make further changes to how the surgery operates in order to help protect both patients and staff. This includes :
Unfortunately our staff have experienced a significant increase in the amount of aggressive behaviour towards them during phone calls with patients. This will not be tolerated and as such staff have a right to end a call. Patients may also be removed from our list.
You can find out more about the changes we have had to make by visiting the page below
Coronavirus COVID-19 Information
We have been informed by the Chief Medical Officer that preparations have been made by the Government to reduce the risk to the supply of medicines, medical devices and clinical consumables at the end of the EU Transition Period.
Medicines and other medical supplies will be given priority for entry into the UK as ‘category 1’ goods.
GP practices, community pharmacies, hospitals, social care providers and members of the public should not stockpile. Prescriptions will be issued as normal. Shortages are a regular occurrence and the NHS has strengthened the systems used to manage the situation.
There is no need for you to do anything different.