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25.01.21 The Hillingdon CCG has published the following on their website on 22.1.1.2021 We wholly disagree with contents. CCG says: Patients may have read that the West London Medical Centre and Church Road Surgery have not been accredited as Covid vaccination centres by NHS England and that the practices are campaigning against this decision. ……………………. Response: For clarity – following our submission of the application to provide the vaccination service, the decision was taken by the CCG to do a site visit on 29.12.2020. This decision was made by NHS Hillingdon CCG in consultation with NHS England. This site visit decision was later cancelled without explanation by the CCG but with assurance that this would take place and we would be contacted as to when this would take place. We understand the decision by NHS England to not approve the site relates to the position of the CCG set out in their letter of 06 January 2021. We do not agree with the points raised in that letter and have since responded to each point to clarify why we are in a position to provide the service and meet its requirements. The intended outcome of this was so that the CCG could then make its recommendation to NHS England to approve the site as we understand NHS England are making their decision based on the recommendation of the CCG ……………………………………….. CCG says The CCG is taking steps to ensure that the patients in that practice are not disadvantaged and can make use of the same vaccination centres as all other Hillingdon residents. Patients will have a choice of nearby locations where they can be vaccinated. We wanted to be clear on why West London Medical Centre and its partner practice Church Road Surgery have not been accredited as vaccination centres. The Covid vaccination process is one of the most ambitious vaccination programmes in the history of the NHS. A huge amount of planning has gone into it and NHS England has worked out that the quickest and most effective approach is for all GPs to work together in local networks, alongside a national programme of mass vaccination centres. This means every general practice working with the neighbouring practices in its Primary Care Network (PCN) and each PCN working together. …………………………. Response: We wholly disagree with this assertion. The service specification specifically states that the GP practices can apply as a ‘PCN grouping’ which it specifically defines as “the group of GP practices which collaborate to deliver the services under this ES, which may include established Primary Care Networks, and additional neighbouring GP practices and/or other groups of GP practices working together. In our case, West London Medical Centre and Church Road Surgery are the 2 non-PCN practices within CCG and are working together as a “PCN Grouping”. It is specifically not limited to just PCNs, but includes groups of practices, which is why we applied. In fact the Covid specification (Enhanced Service or “ES”) specifically states: “A GP practice need not be a member of an established Primary Care Network to participate in this ES” ………………………………… CCG says: The aim is to get as many people as we can vaccinated as quickly as possible, with no vaccine wasted. Criteria for vaccination centres published by NHS England focus on mutual support, collaboration and sharing of resources between centres, so that the maximum number of patients are vaccinated with no waste. This means each vaccination centre needs to be a shared resource locally – no practice is only vaccinating its own patients. West London Medical Centre and Church Road Surgery are proposing the Church Road site to become the vaccinating site. There will be no wastage West London Medical Centre and Church Road Surgery have refused to be part of a PCN or to work with local PCNs, which is a key requirement for vaccination centres. ……………….. Response: Taking part in a PCN is voluntary and the CCG have been aware that both practices are not part of a primary care network since their inception in April 2019. As noted above, the service does not require practices to be part of a PCN in order to vaccinate patients – merely to collaborate with other practices, which is what we have asked to do. The agreement to participate in the Covid service is an agreement between each individual practice and NHS England with a delivery model that requires collaboration – which we have agreed to do as between both practices. We are disappointed that the CCG is not seeking to support us after having initially agreed to support us by arranging the site visit. We are at a loss as to why there has been a change in stance as this is now causing the delay in vaccinations. ……………….. CCG says: They were also unable to perform the required 975 vaccines a day ……………………… Response: The practices are able to build the capacity to deliver 975, if needed. To clarify what we have told the CCG, we explained that our PCN Grouping did not have 975 within our initial cohort of patients that was proposed (the above 80’s). The National medical directors office at NHS England asked us to contact the CCG for smaller packs to suit our patient population – but the CCG have not agreed to do this. Ability to provide 975 vaccine does in a week is no longer a required of the enhanced service specifications. Please see version 3.published on 7.1.2021 ……………………………. CCG says …and were not able to provide sufficient assurance that Church Road Surgery could vaccinate patients 7 days a week from 8am-8pm. …………………… Response: We disagree with this statement- in fact we gave firm reassurances. We specifically stated to the CCG that we will open every day ,including bank holidays 8 am to 8pm . The CCG have not given any indication of what “further reassurance’ they require. ………………………….. CCG says: While this is a decision taken by NHS England, it is one that the CCG fully supports. ………………… Response: As we understand, NHS England have made a decision based on the recommendation (or not) of the CCG. As noted, above, NHS England wrote to us and said they won’t approve for the reasons the CCG has stated in their 06 January letter. The contents of the press release appear to be reflective only of the content of the CCG’s letter to us from CCG Chairman Dr Goodman of 06.01.21. We have responded to each point of this in our responses on 08.01.2021. The CCG has not responded to that email to date. We are concerned that the position being stated here is not an accurate reflection of the service requirements and that we have not received adequate responses to the counterpoints we have made. ………………………. In summary, we say: For the reasons above, we believe the CCG’s reasoning is incorrect, doesn’t reflect the latest requirements of the Covid specification and didn’t give the Prime Minister/our constituency MP and our patients the full picture. Further delay on this can only seek to put our patients at risk and we believe that we are in the best position to mobilise and to start vaccinating our patients. End of response ………………………………………… 25.01.21
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21.01.21 Covid Vaccine – practice notice Further to our previous announcements on 06 and 18 January 2021, we want to keep you, our patients, abreast of the practice’s continuing struggle in getting approval to allow us to provide the Covid-19 vaccinations to our patients.
We are committed to delivering the best service we can to our patients and have been proactive in readying ourselves to begin delivering the patients to the government’s identified patient cohorts. As per our announcement on 06 January, this has included obtaining an ultra-low temperature freezer to store the Pfizer vaccine. However, despite our continuing efforts, we are finding it almost impossible to obtain the relevant approvals to begin the vaccination programme.
We had written to the CCG on 17 November 2020 requesting approval to deliver the vaccine from our site and we were provided with the requisite forms to complete immediately before Christmas. The Covid vaccination service is an “enhanced service” which forms part of a practice’s core primary care contract held with NHS England and as such a practice based service. NHS England requires to apply as a ‘grouping’ and we have done with our sister practice- West London Medical Centre- on 7th December 2020. As part of the approvals process, we were told the CCG would be carrying out a site assurance visit on 29 December 2020 . This visit was then cancelled without explanation leaving us hamstrung to be able to commence delivering the vaccine, as we had hoped, in early January. Since that date, we have been continually trying to establish why our application has not been approved given the urgency of the need to vaccinate patients. NHS England has told us they declined the application due to lack of support from Hillingdon CCG and Hillingdon CCG has not explained why they would not support us. Hillingdon CCG chair wrote to us on 6.1.2021 with reasons that were factually incorrect and we have clarified and provided further information on 8th December 2021. In the middle of this national emergency we are in this bizarre situation where we are bounced back and forward between NHS England that says they will not approve because the CCG would not support our application and the CCG who are refusing to allow us to vaccinate because NHS England would not approve our application! The only other alternative being suggested to us by CCG is to pass on the responsibility for delivering the vaccines to our patients to other providers which doesn’t make sense to us at all given our willingness and readiness to deliver the vaccine from our surgery site. Specifically, the CCG are suggesting the following:
Given that we would propose being a designated site for Covid delivery in any event and would anticipate delivering the vaccine to our own patients, above seems an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy which would not impact how and to whom we would provide the vaccine and which in times of national emergency astonishes us. Once designated site is approved, vaccines will be delivered to the site. Oxford vaccine can be transported between surgeries for the convenience of patients to make sure they receive it closer to home. We can vaccinate housebound patients at their homes. We do not have any care homes. The safety of our patients and the need to roll out the vaccine is our utmost priority and as previously stated, we are petitioning our local MP and Prime Minister Rt Hon. Boris Johnson MP to highlight this issue and we would welcome your support in getting us to a position where we can begin vaccinating our patients. The government has announced the current cohort needs to be vaccinated before middle of February 2021 . Once provided with vaccines we will act fast. ………………………………… 21.01.2021 Click here to read letter from Mrs Yvonne Blowfield to Rt Hon. Boris Johnson MP ………………………………… 18.01.2021
This morning we have received many calls regarding letters received from NHSE. Our patients have been asked to visit this link to book appointment or contact surgery. We understand the vaccination centres offered are far from locality. We have been chasing up last week the response to our reassurances to Hillingdon CCG Chairman Dr Ian Goodman requesting to allow us to vaccinate our own patients in the surgery. We have also written again to Rt Hon. Boris Johnson MP requesting to persuade Hillingdon CCG and NHS England to allow us to start vaccinating our patients. We will be writing again. We shall keep you updated. Some of our patients have told us they are booking appointment via link. 7.1.2021
Please click here for Operational guidance …………………………….. 6.1.2021
We started preparing for covid vaccination programme early. The pfizer vaccine is transported and stored in dry ice at minus 70 degrees . We are the only practice in UK to obtain an ultra low temperature freezer in preparation to the vaccination programme. We are grateful for Brunel University for allowing us to borrow a high quality freezer. We applied early with our sister practice West London Medical Centre to vaccinate our own patients. We have come across some difficulties due to red tape .We have now approached our local MP and Prime Minister Rt Hon. Boris Johnson MP asking for help to expedite approval process. We are committed to vaccinate all eligible patients locally ,closer to their homes. We have a team on stand by and ‘ready to go’ as soon as we are approved. …………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………. 05.01.2021
Shielding advice for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people The Government has reintroduced shielding advice for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) people across all areas of England from 5 January. This shielding advice is expected to be identical to that which was in place nationally from 5 November to 2 December, and which was already in place in areas under Tier 4 restrictions. This advice does not alter if an individual has received the COVID-19 vaccination. …………………………..
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General PractitionersPrincipal GP Dr Sashi Shashikanth MD MRCGP DCH DRCOG DFFP LRCP (Lon.) LRCS (Eng.) PG Dip. Urgent Care ( Brunel) Sessional GPs The following GPs are responsible for day to day running of practice. Dr Ranjanee Arulnanthy MBBS MRCGP DFFP Mondays/Fridays Dr Stuti Talwar MBBS DPD DRCOG DFSRH MRCS nMRCGP Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays Church Road Surgery
Cowley , Middlesex
UB8 3NA Tel: 01895 233736 Fax: 01895 256881 Email: admin@churchroadsurgery.london
CQC Provider ID- 1-199724207 Location ID- 1-1754652641 |
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