Cowfold_Surgery The Surgeries in Cowfold and Partridge Green provide the highest quality healthcare to patients in the West Sussex area. Our doctors, nurses and ancillary staff are dedicated to offering a professional service and we hope this surgery website will help keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.

As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff and the services we provide and how to access them, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. We welcome your feedback on the site to improve our online services and further develop its contents.

You will also be able to access any surveys we are running via the website.

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UPDATE ON GLOBAL SHORTAGE OF BLOOD TEST EQUIPMENT - WHAT IT MEANS FOR PATIENTS

ANYONE WHO NEEDS A TEST FOR URGENT HEALTH PROBLEMS, WILL STILL GET ONE BUT WHERE YOUR CLINICIAN RECOMMENDS THAT IT IS SAFE TO DO SO, THEN YOU MAY BE ASKED TO COME BACK FOR A TEST AT A LATER DATE, OR YOUR APPOINTMENT MAY BE RESCHEDULED.

GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE SHORTAGE, WE CANNOT GIVE AN EXACT DATE FOR WHEN THE TEST WILL BE RESCHEDULED, BUT PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT IF YOUR CONDITION OR SYMPTOMS REQUIRE IT, THEN YOU WILL GET A TEST, AND WE WILL BE REBOOKING YOUR TEST WHEN SUPPLIES BECOME MORE EASILY AVAILABLE.

IF YOUR CONDITION OR SYMPTOMS CHANGE OR GET WORSE, PLEASE CONTACT THE NHS AS YOU WOULD NORMALLY.

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COVID VACCINATION PROGRAMME 2021

First and follow-up dose Covid vaccination phases have now been concluded. No further first and follow-up vaccinations are available via the practice as we await details and guidance on the booster programme in the autumn. Patients still requiring first and second dose, are asked to follow the link below for further information. Our Receptionists will not be able to assist with any appointment bookings.

West Sussex Covid Vaccination Clinics

Patients aged 16 and 17, please wait to be contacted by the NHS. Our Receptionists will not be able to assist with any national appointment bookings. More information can be found by clicking on the following link:

National Covid Vaccination Information

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Although the Government has amended the national guidance, patients may wish to consider the following:

- We are here to help and support patients, do not neglect your health needs. Our Cowfold site has been and will remain open for the community, operating on a telephone and e-consult basis with face to face appointments available if the GPs need to see you. Please DO NOT attend the Surgery unless you have been asked to do so;
- Please do not attend if you are experiencing any one of the Covid symptoms, telephone us or 111 first;
- Please help us to protect each other to observe social distancing measures and by continuing to wear a face mask;
- Online appointment booking is still suspended due to the renewed Covid virus spread.
The above are all steps in the interest of infection control management. Having to shut the surgery for a day for a deep-clean is not helpful to anyone and costly to the NHS. Please help us to operate safely.

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