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Flu Vaccination Information 2024

When should you get your flu vaccine? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

At Risk Groups

Those in the risk groups below are more likely to develop potentially serious complications of flu, such as pneumonia so it is recommended they have a flu vaccine every year to protect them: 

  • Age Over 65 (including those who will be 65 by 31 March 2024)
  • Pregnant women
  • Under 65 with an underlying chronic disease:
  • Respiratory disease including severe asthma or COPD
  • Heart Disease
  • Kidney Disease
  • Liver Disease
  • Neurological Disease
  • Spleen dysfunction or no spleen
  • Weakened immune system due to disease or drug treatment
  • If you are in receipt of a Carer’s Allowance
  • Those living with anyone with a weakened immune system
  • Health & Social Care Workers who are registered patients at the practice who are employed by a registered residential / nursing home or registered domiciliary care provider and health and care staff employed by a voluntary managed hospice provider who are directly involved in the care of vulnerable patients / clients aged 65 yrs+ who are risk from exposure to influenza.

 

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)

From 1 September 2024, those who turn 75 and those age 75 to 79 will be eligible for a free vaccine to protect them from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).  RSV is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including:

  • cough
  • sore throat
  • sneezing

a runny or blocked nose

 

FLU CLINIC DATES & BOOKING 2024

Appointments for all clinics can be booked online via Patient Access

 

RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus)

Where: at the surgery on

Thursday 5th September

Tuesday 24th September

 

Adult’s Aged 65 and Over Flu Vaccine Clinics

Where:  at the surgery on

Thursday 3rd October

Friday 4th October

Monday 7th October

Tuesday 8th October

Wednesday 9th October

Thursday 10th October

Saturday 12th October

Monday 14th October

Tuesday 15th October

Thursday 17th October

Friday 18th October

Monday 21st October

Tuesday 22nd October

Thursday 24th October

Monday 28th October

Tuesday 29th October

Wednesday 6th November

Thursday 7th November

More clinics for adults & children will be offered as the vaccines become available.  Please check our website for regular updates.   www.longfurlongmedicalcentre.co.uk

 

Children’s Flu Information

All children aged 2 and 3 years on 31 August 2023 - Will receive the nasal vaccine at the GP surgery.

School-aged children (from Reception - Year 11) - Will receive the nasal vaccine at school this year.

 

Children’s Nasal Flu Vaccine Clinic

Where:  at the surgery on

Tuesday 24th September

Wednesday 25th September

Thursday 26th September


Published on 25th Sep 2024

Data Opt Out

We have been asked to share the following important information with you. 

This practice is supporting vital health and care planning and research by sharing your data with NHS Digital. For more information about this see the GP Practice Privacy Notice for General Practice Data for Planning and Research." =

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research

This collection will start on 1 July 2021

If you do not want your data to be shared with NHS Digital please register your Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice by 23 June 2021.

What data is shared:

Data may be shared from the GP medical records about:

  • any living patient registered at a GP practice in England when the collection started - this includes children and adults
  • any patient who died after 1 July 2021, and was previously registered at a GP practice in England when the data collection started

NHS Digital will not collect patients’ names or addresses. Any other data that could directly identify patients (such as NHS Number, date of birth, full postcode) is replaced with unique codes which are produced by de-identification software before the data is shared with NHS Digital.

This process is called pseudonymisation and means that patients will not be identified directly in the data. NHS Digital will be able to use the software to convert the unique codes back to data that could directly identify patients in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason.

If you would prefer that your identifiable patient data is only shared for your own health care purposes, you can opt-out by registering a Type 1 Opt-out or a National Data Opt-out, or both.

 These opt-outs are different and they are explained in more detail below. Your individual care will not be affected if you opt-out using either option (or both).

A Type 1 opt out has to be registered by your Practice; please let us know if you want to register a type 1 opt out.  

A National Opt out can be done without contacting your practice, at https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/

 

 

 

 

 

Type 1 Opt-out (opting out of NHS Digital collecting your data)

NHSD will not collect data from GP practices about patients who have registered a Type 1 Opt-out with their practice. More information about Type 1 Opt-outs is in the GP Data for Planning and Research Transparency Notice, including a form that you can complete and send to your GP practice.

This collection will start on 1 July 2021 so if you do not want your data to be shared with NHS Digital, please register your Type 1 Opt-out with your GP practice by 23 June 2021.

If you register a Type 1 Opt-out after this collection has started, no more of your data will be shared with NHSD. They will however still hold the patient data which was shared before you registered the Type 1 Opt-out.

If you do not want NHS Digital to share your identifiable patient data with anyone else for purposes beyond your own care, then you can also register a National Data Opt-out.

National Data Opt-out (opting out of NHS Digital sharing your data with other organizations)

NHSD will collect data from GP medical records about patients who have registered a National Data Opt-out. The National Data Opt-out applies to identifiable patient data about your health, which is called confidential patient information.

NHS Digital won’t share any confidential patient information about you - this includes GP data, or other information, such as hospital data - with other organisations, unless there is an exemption to this.

To find out more information and how to register a National Data Opt-Out, please read NHSD GP Data for Planning and Research Transparency Notice.

= https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research/transparency-notice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD

The data held in your GP medical records is shared with other healthcare professionals for the purposes of your individual care. It can also be shared with other organisations to support health and care planning and research.

If you do not want your personally identifiable patient data to be shared outside of your GP practice for purposes except your own care, you can register an opt-out with your GP practice. This is known as a Type 1 Opt-out.

a National Data Opt-out which is not done at GP practice level; for this, you must contact NHS Digital - more information about the National Data Opt-out is here: https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/

 

You can use this form to:

  • register a Type 1 Opt-out, for yourself or for a dependent (if you are the parent or legal guardian of the patient) (to Opt-out)
  • withdraw an existing Type 1 Opt-out, for yourself or a dependent (if you are the parent or legal guardian of the patient) if you have changed your preference (Opt-in)

This decision will not affect individual care and you can change your choice at any time, using this form. This form, once completed, should be sent to your GP practice by email or post.

Yours faithfully

Long Furlong Medical Centre

 

Details of the patient

Title

 

Forename(s)

 

Surname

 

Address

 

 

 

Phone number

 

Date of birth

 

NHS Number (if known)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details of parent or legal guardian

If you are filling in this form on behalf of a dependent e.g. a child, the GP practice will first check that you have the authority to do so.  Please complete the details below:

Name

 

Address

 

 

 

Relationship to patient

 

Your decision

Opt-out  

I do not allow my identifiable patient data to be shared outside of the GP practice for purposes except my own care.

Withdraw Opt-out (Opt back in))

I do allow my identifiable patient data to be shared outside of the GP practice for purposes beyond my own care.

Your declaration

I confirm that:

  • the information I have given in this form is correct
  • I am the parent or legal guardian of the dependent person I am making a choice for set out above (if applicable)

Signature

 

Date signed

 

When complete, please post or send by email to receptionists.longfurlong@nhs.net

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For GP Practice Use Only

Date received

 

Date applied

 

Tick to select the codes applied

Opt – Out - Dissent code:

9Nu0 (827241000000103 |Dissent from secondary use of general practitioner patient identifiable data (finding)|)

 

 

Opt – In - Dissent withdrawal code:

9Nu1 (827261000000102 |Dissent withdrawn for secondary use of general practitioner patient identifiable data (finding)|)]

 

 


Published on 3rd Jun 2021