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The Shenstone surgery will close at 1.00pm on Friday 13th December due to the Xmas Festival, Thank You. 

The Practice will close for PLT (Protected Learning Time) on Tuesday 17th December at 2pm, 1pm at Shenstone surgery.

Please ensure you have enough medication to last you over the Christmas and New Year period, last date to order for Christmas is Friday 20th December before 10.00am. Last date for New Year is Friday 27th December before 10.00am.

Christmas and New Year Closures:

Monday 23rd December: 8:00am - 6.30pm

Tuesday 24^th December: 8:00am - 6.30pm (Shenstone 1pm)

Wednesday 25^th December: Practice closed

Thursday 26^th December: Practice closed

Friday 27^th December: 8:00am - 6.30pm

Monday 30^th December: 8:00am - 6.30pm

Tuesday 31^st December: 8:00am - 6.30pm (Shenstone 1pm)

Wednesday 1^st January: Practice Closed

Thursday 2^nd January: 8:00am - 6.30pm

Friday 3^rd January: 8:00am - 6.30pm

Protect your health this winter

Have you had your annual 'flu vaccination?

  The Practice offers free vaccinations for our eligible patients (anyone over 65 or patients under 65 who meet the criteria below), it is important that you attend surgery for your vaccinations so that we can review your medical history and record that you have had the vaccination.

Eligibility for under 65's includes: Pregnancy; suffer from a chronic disease (asthma/diabetes/heart/kidney/liver/neurological disease); are immunosuppressed; morbidly obese.

Carers and those in close contact with immunosuppressed individuals are also eligible for a free flu vaccination.

Please ask at the surgery if you are unsure.

Have you had your Shingles vaccination?

If you are 70 years old and not yet reached your 80th birthday then you are eligible for the shingles vaccination, this is only required once.

Have you had your Pneumococcal vaccination?

If you are over 65 years of age you are eligible for this vaccination, this is only required once.

Appointments are now available to book for your vaccination.

 Children's 'Flu Clinics

Is your child 2 or 3 years of age (born on or after 1st September 2015 to 31st August 2017) or under 17 with a long term condition?

Appointments are available to book online and will be released weekly due to availability of the vaccines.

Please keep checking the website and practice noticeboards for further information.

Is your child up to date with their vaccinations? Please contact the practice for more information & advice.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING LONG TERM CONDITION ANNUAL REVIEWS

YOUR ANNUAL REVIEW WILL NOW BE DUE IN YOUR BIRTHDAY MONTH.

A LETTER OF INVITATION WILL NO LONGER BE SENT.

PLEASE CONTACT THE PRACTICE ONE MONTH PRIOR TO YOUR BIRTHDAY TO ALLOW TIME FOR YOUR NECESSARY BLOOD TESTS.

Try our E-Consult Service below

 view this useful video eConsult 

 Extended Access Appointments - Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network

 From the 1st of September 2018, in addition to the Practice’s normal opening hours, you can also book an appointment to see a local clinician in the evenings between 6:30 to 8:00 pm, or on Saturday and Sunday at locations across Lichfield and Burntwood. GP Practices are working together to provide Extended Access appointments to our patients. This means that your appointment may be with a different GP or health professional  based in a different location or Practice than you are used to, and some of these appointments are telephone only.  These appointments are pre-bookable by contacting the surgery during our normal opening times. When you call, our Patient Services Team will be able to help you to find a suitable appointment.

At The Westgate Practice in Lichfield our doctors and nurses take pride in offering the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. We run many clinics for chronic disease care and offer a wide variety of other medical services such as antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

Please note, to access our online appointment and prescription services, patients will need to register for this service. Please call into our surgery at your convenience, bringing one form of identification with you - thank you.

At Westgate we offer a text reminder service to all our patients who inform us of their mobile number. This service is used to remind patients of appointments booked and for general clinic dates. Any risk of the messages being intercepted is addressed by minimising the information sent. If you use the online services to update your contact details and do not want to be included in the text reminder service please contact the practice. 

We have a variety of leaflets about our services at Westgate Practice, which can be picked up from both our Greenhill and Shenstone sites. If you would like information in an alternative format, for example large print or easy read, or if you need help with communicating with us, for example because you use British Sign Language, please let us know.