Throughout the pandemic we have strived to make St Johns Medical Centre as safe as possible and this will continue: protecting patients and staff is our priority.

From 19th July nothing will change at our practice – patients will need to still wear a mask, socially distance and use hand sanitiser, and our staff will continue to wear PPE. Those visiting us are sick and vulnerable (and some cannot receive the Covid vaccinations due to medical reasons) so we feel we should take these small precautions to protect people.

In terms of opening up, as many of you know, we have never been shut and we have treated 50% more patients than we did pre-Covid (face to face, by phone, via AskMyGP and video).

St Johns Medical Centre is committed to minimising the impact of Covid and we hope you understand that our practice must be as safe as possible for all patients and staff.

The Government has confirmed:

• Patients can access details of their Covid-19 vaccination through the NHS App 
• Patients can also access details via the NHS website
• Patients without access to a smartphone, and know that the country they are travelling to requires COVID-19 vaccination status, can call the NHS helpline on 119 and ask for a letter to be posted to them. This must be at least five days after they’ve completed their course of the vaccine. It’s expected the letter to take up to seven days to reach them

NHS APPOINTMENT CARDS CANNOT BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR VACCINATION STATUS

Please do not contact your GP surgery about your COVID-19 vaccination status. GPs cannot provide letters showing your COVID-19 vaccination status  For full updated details click here

​If you think you may have coronavirus do not go to a GP surgery, community pharmacy or hospital. NHS 111 has an online coronavirus service for advice: https://111.nhs.uk/service/covid-19
For NHS information regarding coronavirus visit http://www.nhs.uk
Information is also updated at http://www.gov.uk