Downs Way Medical Practice - News

Flu Vaccinations

Details of the walk in flu vaccination clinics 2025

Shorne Closed pm 4th Sept

Shorne Surgery closed pm 4th September due to a power cut.

No vehicular access ...

No vehicular access possible this morning to Istead Rise Surgery

Access restored 1130

Road to Istead Rise Surgery now reopened.

New System 1st July

Anima will replace eConsult as the online request system from 1st July 2025

Weight Loss Meds - Update

Your GP practice will not be able to prescribe the weightloss medication Mounjaro and Wegovy

Infected Blood Inquiry

Recommendations from the Infected Blood Enquiry and potential actions for patients to take if they had a blood transfusion before 1996

Weight Loss Meds Prescribing

Update on weight loss medicines prescribing

Istead Rise - Traffic

Disruption in getting to Istead Rise Surgery for 2 weeks from 6th May 2025

Computer issues

Apologies to patients affected this morning by a complete outage of the clinical computer system. Normal service now resumed.