Shore Medical

14/05/2026

RSV is not just a winter illness. We see cases increase in winter but it can occur all year round and can make older people seriously ill. It is vital everyone eligible gets vaccinated https://www.nhs.uk/rsv-vaccine

The RSV vaccine has been proven to reduce the chance of those aged 75 and over from ending up in hospital with an RSV infection – at 82% effective. The vaccine programme has recently been expanded to include all adults aged 75 and over. Only one vaccine is needed for protection for a few years.

Contact us online to book your RSV vaccine https://shoremedical.co.uk/online/

13/05/2026

06/05/2026

April showers didn't slow us down - another very busy month here at Shore Medical. Over 22,000 appointments with our Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Pharmacists, Mental Health specialists, Physios, Social Prescribers, Phlebotomists........the list goes on.............

02/04/2026

Did you know that here at Shore Medical we provide over 250,000 appointments a year for our patients. These include appointments with a Doctor or Nurse or for physiotherapy and blood tests as well as many other types of care.

This averages out as nearly 5 appointments a year for each patient.

If you no longer need your appointment please remember to cancel so that someone else can use it - we lost nearly 1000 appointments in March where patients did not attend.

We want to wish all of our patients a Happy Easter and hope to see more warmer weather arriving in the weeks to come!

19/03/2026

Guidance – Meningitis B Outbreak in Kent

Dear Patients/Parents/Guardians

We are aware some of you may be concerned due to the current outbreak of Meningitis B in Kent.
Please be assured we are closely monitoring the situation and national guidance.

There are no specific concern or outbreak in Dorset at this time, but the NHS is reminding people to stay aware of the signs and symptoms of meningitis and to check that they and their children are up to date with routine vaccinations.
Meningitis can be very serious, so it’s important to know what to look out for and to seek urgent medical help if symptoms appear.

All the evidence is that this outbreak is only local to Kent and specifically those who visited Club Chemistry between 5 and 7 March and to University of Kent students, who have been asked to seek preventative treatment which is a one off antibiotic dose. There are several walk-in clinics in Kent providing this service. However anyone who has travelled home, or away from Kent, can easily access this important preventative treatment. If this applies to you please contact us urgently and we can prescribe the one of dose of antibiotics

Meningitis B Vaccination
Vaccination with Meningitis B is only being offered by the national team to a small number of people in Kent

Please note – that we are not able to offer the Meningitis B vaccine to children over the age 2 years or adults. Meningitis B vaccine has been part of the children’s vaccine program since 2015 so all children born after then will have been offered it as standard before the age of 1. Currently the NHS only organises a catch-up program to children who missed this these vaccines and are still under 2 years old.

Meningitis ACWY Vaccination

The Men ACWY vaccine helps protect young people against four different causes of meningitis and septicaemia: meningococcal groups A, C, W and Y disease. You only need one dose of the vaccine. This is a different vaccine which covers the other common strains in teenagers and young adults and given to school age children – aged 13-15 in Year 9/10 in Dorset schools.
This service and catch-up clinics for those who missed the vaccine is run by Dorset HealthCare.

Advice for parents of children who missed the Meningitis ACWY vaccine via the school’s program.
“If your child has missed this vaccination and are in Years 9/10/11 then they can be offered the vaccine either in school or a community clinic catch up clinic. Parents/guardians need to follow the link below and completed a consent form.
They will be contacted by Dorset HealthCare once the consent form as been done
https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services-and-sites/children-young-people-and-families/school-age-immunisation-service
https://www.schoolimmunisation.dhc.nhs.uk/

Those older than 15 years
If you or your child are older than 15 years and upto your 25th Birthday and have NOT had the Men ACMY already. Please contact the surgery for an appointment with a nurse to receive the vaccine.

https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/news/update-meningitis-incident-kent-england
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cases-of-invasive-meningococcal-disease-confirmed-in-kent

11/03/2026

Happy No Smoking Day!

Let us know if it's your quit day and if we can help in any way by contacting us online to book in to our Stop Smoking Clinic
https://shoremedical.co.uk/online/

You can also download the NHS Quit Smoking App
https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/

05/03/2026

Another busy month here at Shore in February. 20,000 appointments delivered means 1 in 3 of our patients seen. We had 820 appointments lost through patients not attending, this equates to 205 hours or over 25 days of wasted clinical time. If you cannot make it to your appointment, please remember to cancel it in sufficient time for another patient to make use of it. Thank you to all our staff who work tirelessy to support our patients.

18/02/2026

Our latest newsletter is now ready to view
https://shoremedical.co.uk/winter-2026-patient-newsletter/