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Welcome to The New Hall Lane Practice

The New Hall Lane Practice is a four Partner Training Practice comprising three male and one female. This is a medical partnership with the practice name of “The New Hall Lane Practice”. It is not a limited company.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL PHONE CALLS INTO AND OUT OF THIS PRACTICE ARE RECORDED.

In general, we cover the East side of Preston, St Matthews and Fishwick wards, and a map of the practice area is available in reception.

The Health Centre was constructed in 1978 and updated in 1990 and 1996.

Car parking is available on site, and the Health Centre is accessible to disabled patients. The premises are owned by NHS Property Services.

In addition to everything you need to know about the practice you will also find a wealth of health-related information in the menu on the right hand side. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like.

We are aware of the difficulties that some patients are experiencing in getting through to the practice via telephone. We do apologise and we are working hard to resolve this with our IT/telephone supplier.

We are aware that during peak periods, for example during the mornings, phone lines tend to be by far the busiest. Ourselves and other practices in the area are working with the supplier to migrate away from what was an old system to a new one and this work will conclude soon. This new system has additional capacity for practices when a high volume of calls are being experienced.

We will keep you up to date with this and in the meantime ask you to please to bear with us, particularly during peak periods.

Act FAST if you or a loved one have symptoms of stroke

The NHS is urging anyone who thinks they or a loved one have symptoms of stroke not be put off seeking help because of coronavirus but to ‘act FAST’.

NHS staff have worked hard to ensure anyone who needs stroke care can safely get it despite the biggest public health emergency in over a century.

Now there are concerns that people are putting off getting help when they need it due to coronavirus worries.

As part of the Help Us Help You campaign the NHS is urging the public to continue to act F.A.S.T. and dial 999 when stroke strikes.

Services across the country have been restructured to reduce the risk of patients being exposed to,o r passing on infection in hospital.

The F.A.S.T. (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym is a simple test to help people identify the most common signs of a stroke, and emphasises the importance of acting quickly by calling 999

Face – has their face fallen on one side? Can they smile?
Arms – can they raise both arms and keep them there?
Speech – is their speech slurred?
Time to call 999

For health advice and information, visit www.nhs.uk.

Invitations to vaccination services: update for patients

Now that more doses of Covid-19 vaccines are available, the NHS is able to open more vaccination services in Lancashire and South Cumbria, including large Vaccination Centres and, in the near future, pharmacies.

People who are eligible, live near these new vaccination services and who haven’t already been vaccinated by their local GP led vaccination services or hospital hub, will receive letters from the NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service, telling them how they can book their appointment.

The NHS is rolling out additional services quickly, but it remains important that the public don’t try to book or go to these services before they receive their booking letter.

If you receive a letter from the national NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service and you book an appointment, please make sure you attend it. The sooner you get your vaccination, when eligible, the earlier you will be protected from Covid-19.

Vaccination centres offer an important additional option for people who are eligible, and we expect more sites to be available across Lancashire and South Cumbria in the coming days and weeks.

Please don’t delay having your vaccine, but if you can’t travel to a vaccination centre or you would rather wait for an appointment closer to home, you can choose to do that, and your local GP-led service will be in touch soon to offer an alternative.

In Lancashire and South Cumbria, we expect to put in place additional Vaccination Centres over the coming weeks in Central Lancashire, Fylde Coast, Morecambe Bay and Pennine Lancashire. As soon as these are ready and available they will appear on the national NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service.

We are continuing to vaccinate patients over the age of 80 years of age and are inviting people in according to the criteria and prioritisation set by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Like the rest of the NHS we are working to offer vaccines to everyone in the top priority groups by the middle of February.

Please do not contact us if you haven’t received an invite yet. We are very busy at the moment and doing so could prevent a patient who needs our help from getting through. We will contact you when it is the right time for you to book your appointment.