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September 2022 September 2022

BERE REGIS A GOOD SIGNAL
SURGERY NEWS

Do you have a mobile phone? Do you
Bank holiday have your favourite place around your
house where you get a good signal?
We will be closed Monday 29 August 2022. Have you changed provider a few
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times to try to get the best service for
Please ensure you have enough the best price?
medication to tide you over the long
weekend and that any dosette boxes which start on Mondays have been Are you a specialist in ICT? Do you know
collected. what ICT stands for? Have you got an
“Alexa” in the kitchen? Do you have a
If you need medical attention whilst we are closed please call 111 PC or a Lap Top or do you have a little
If you have a medical emergency whilst we are closed call 999 book of postage stamps, a writing pad,
and some envelopes?
Have a lovely weekend!
I am impressed when I see boffins accessing information from the public system. I

am getting better at it. I am getting quite good at recognising spam and fraud
Protected learning time communications. But sometimes I need help in determining what to do. I am not
frightened of making decisions. (I remember a cartoon with Snoopy sitting on his
We have a protected learning time session during the afternoon of Thursday 8 kennel with a big grin. The caption was “today I made 42 decisions – all of them
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September from 15.30 – 18.30 when the Surgery including Dispensary will be wrong”. But the key was that he had made a decision.)
closed.
I had a difficult decision the other day. A family matter for which I had to decide
Please phone the surgery number (01929 471268) if you need medical attention if I had to make a change or not, and if so, what change should I make. So, being
whilst we are closed. You will receive guidance on how you can be helped. a church goer, I thought I would ask God to help me make the decision. Sitting at
my desk - is God there in my study? I tell you what, I will go to church and ask
The Practice will be open as normal on Friday 9 September
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there. I’m sure God will be able to hear my question. So off I went mulling the
question and potentials solutions as I went. I walked into the church (St Laurence

Flu clinics at Affpuddle) and sat on the first pew. As I sat down it was like I had sat on an
electric fence. The answer came to me immediately with such confidence that I
Patients aged 65 + or those with a long term health wondered how I hadn’t seen it before. I jumped up, said thank you to God, and
condition should have been contacted by the set off home to put the solution into practice.
Practice by now to book a flu vaccination. If you
haven’t had a call or a text message please The signal in the church was very strong.
contact Reception on 01929 471268 Mike Menzies
Patients aged 50 – 64 are eligible for a flu
vaccination again this year. NHS guidelines
stipulate this cohort of patients should not be vaccinated before 17 October.
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We will contact our patients in this age group in due course, again by text
message or phone call.
We thank you for choosing to have your flu vaccination at the Practice. The little
profit we make from your vaccination goes back into the services we provide
you.

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