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Image: Howden Medical CentreWelcome to Howden Medical Centre.
We are a GP surgery located in the historic town of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Our modern health centre can be found in Pinfold Lane DN14 7DD. These website pages provide details of the services on offer at the practice. You will also find a wealth of health information from local, regional and national sources.
We are here to help and new patients are welcome.
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NEW WAY TO REGISTER
We are using a new online service that makes it easy to register with this GP surgery. Just fill in this quick online form to start the process. You do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number. The service is designed and run by the NHS, so your personal information is safe. It cuts our administrative workload and makes it easier for you to register. Paper forms are still available if you need one. Contact our reception team at the practice
My Planned Care is a national digital platform which hosts average waiting time
information for the 137 NHS acute providers across England.
This site is updated weekly and can be viewed by anyone, which means you, your family or carer as well as your NHS team can all see the latest information, no login or registration required.
My Planned Care has two key elements:
- Average waiting time information by specialty
- Access to information to support patients’ physical and mental health and wellbeing while they wait
My Planned Care gives you advice and support while you wait and helps you to prepare for your hospital consultation, treatment, or surgery. This includes giving you
information about waiting times at your hospital and other supporting and local services.
At the current time, the waiting times shown on the My Planned Care digital platform are averages for all procedures across a particular specialty. Urgent cases will
continue to be prioritised.
Your hospital team will be in touch with you as soon as they can. If you are looking
for an update, please check this website before contacting your hospital or GP.
We have received guidance from the NHS ICB (Integrated Care Board) that mask wearing in all healthcare settings is to be reinstated to minimise the spread of illnesses and to protect both staff and vulnerable patients.
This will be compulsory in the Practice as of Monday 31/10/22
for all staff and patients.
Please remember to bring a mask with you to all appointments.
Thank you in advance for your compliance and understanding.
Fast access to key features
This leaflet is for patients with suspected coronavirus who have not been admitted to hospital and will be isolating at home.
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Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer’s Society initiative that sets out to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts, and talks about the condition. Howden Medical Centre is proud to be a supporter of this campaign. We are committed to working with the Alzheimer’s Society to make improvements, where this is appropriate and possible, to our systems, cultures, diagnosis and care and our physical environment.
We will continue to make positive changes to improve our accessibility for patients with dementia and would be happy to hear from you if you have any suggestions. Please get in touch with the practice manager if there is anything we can do to make your visits to us easier.
If you care for someone with dementia it is important for you to have access to information and support as well. Please ensure the practice knows that you are a carer.
Visit our mental health page for more information:
CLICK FOR More information on dementia The UK Health Security Agency has confirmed that cases of monkeypox have increased recently but the risk to the UK population remains low.
Anyone can get monkeypox. Currently most cases have been in men who are gay, bisexual or have sex with men, so it's particularly important to be aware of the symptoms if you're in these groups.
Contact a sexual health clinic if you have a rash with blisters and either:
+ you've been in close contact, including sexual contact, with someone who has or might have monkeypox (even if they've not been tested yet) in the past 3 weeks
+ you've been to west or central Africa in the past 3 weeks
If you have an unexplained rash, please contact NHS111 or phone the practice to make an appointment.
Further public information is available - see below.
Please don't contact us about the Autumn/Winter covid-19 vaccines. We will be arranging clinics as soon as we have the vaccine. Details will follow as and when we have information to share. We will contact all eligible patients. We appreciate your support to keep our phone lines clear for those who need to speak to us.
If you are eligible for, and require a Covid-19 vaccination, you can book online via the national booking system (see button right below) or alternatively ring 119. Additionally, you are welcome to contact The Vaccinate Hull & East Riding initiative -(see button left below).
To support the evergreen offer for the covid vaccine, patients will be able to obtain the vaccine from a number of sites in East Riding and Hull; Community Pharmacies, pop up clinics, vaccine bus and vaccine centres. To find out where you can get the vaccine in the East Riding and Hull please look on this site:
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