Latest News

ARE YOU CONSIDERING TRAVELLING ABROAD FOR SURGERY?

Please read our advice in the "Clinics/Services" tabs of our website 

**********

YOUR BREATHING MATTERS

FREE Online sessions

Click on the link below to find out more and sign up 

Your Breathing Matters

 **********

Live it Highland Pre-Diabetes and new to Type 2 Diabetes 6-week programme 


diabetes
For further information on pre-diabetes and how to reverse it and Type-2 diabetes, please see the Long Term Condition section under diabetes
   
********

Help for Poor Sleep, Insomnia, Anxiety and Worry

Sleepio

Daylight

www.sleepio.com/nhs

********

SMS COMMUNICATION text message communication to patients

The advantages of SMS over phone or letter communication are:

▫ Communication is instantaneous

▫ Reduces pressure on our telephone lines

▫ Lower environmental impact than letters

Information that may be sent by SMS:

▫ Important national updates (e.g Covid-19 updates)

▫ Practice updates (e.g clinician sickness etc.)

▫ Appointment alerts and recall reminders

▫ Results and follow-up information, where appropriate

▫ Relevant medicines information

▫ Website links as agreed with your clinician

What do I need to do?

▫ Make sure we have the correct mobile number for you on file

▫ Update us if you change your mobile number

▫ If you are concerned that we do not hold the correct mobile number for you file, you can email nhsh.gp55709-reception@nhs.scot  or you can let a member of the team know when you are at the practice.

▫ Please note this is a one-way service, please do not reply to the SMS unless prompted, as your reply will not be sent back to us.

Can I opt out? ▫ Yes, email nhsh.gp55709-reception@nhs.scot  or you can let a member of the team know when you are at the practice.

Text message limitations

▫ Appointment reminders by text are an additional service and they may not be sent on all occasions. The responsibility for attending appointments or cancelling them still rests with our patients.

▫ Text messages are generated using a secure facility but they are transmitted over a public network onto a personal telephone and as such may not be secure. However, the practice will not transmit any information which would enable an individual patient to be identified

********

Please allow four full working days for prescriptions to be processed 

********

MEDICINE SICK DAY RULES

When you are unwell with any of the following:

  • Vomiting/diarrhoea/Fevers/Sweats/Shaking (unless only minor)

The STOP taking the following medicines - restart when you are well (after 24-48 hours of eating and drinking normally)

  • ACE inhibitors - a medicine for high blood pressure and heart conditions - example names ending in 'pril' such as Perindopril/Lisinopril/Ramipril
  • ARBs - a medicine for high blood pressure and heart conditions -                   example names ending in 'sartan' such as Losartan/Candesartan/ Valsartan
  • NSAIDS- anti-inflammatory medications                                                            examples are Ibuprofen/Naproxen/Diclofenac
  • Diuretics - sometimes called 'water pills' - medicines for excess fluid and high blood pressure                                                                                             examples are furosemide/Bendroflumethiazide/Indapamide/ Spironolactone
  • Metformin - a medicine for diabetes
  • SGLT-2 inhibitors - a medicine for diabetes/kidney disease and heart failure examples are Dapagliflozin/Empagliflozin/Canagliflozin

If you are in any doubt, contact your pharmacist, doctor or nurse.

Health News from the BBC and the NHS

BBC Health
NHS Choices Behind the Headlines
 
NHS ScotlandThis site is brought to you by My Surgery Website