Jura Medical Practice

11/08/2025

📱What happens when you phone 111 in Scotland?

The first person you’ll speak to when you phone 111 will be a call handler. They’ll ask you:
🔹who you are
🔹where you’re phoning from
🔹why you’re phoning

We need to know as much about you and your health as possible to offer you the best help and advice. If you’re phoning on behalf of someone else, make sure you’re with them at the time of the call.

You’ll be assessed by our triage team and referred to your local NHS services if needed. This may involve a phone or video consultation with a clinician from your local health board or an appointment to attend A&E or Minor Injuries Unit.

During normal working hours always contact your own GP for urgent advice and treatment. The 111 service cannot arrange appointments at your GP.

⤴️find out more: https://www.nhs24.scot/111/

21/05/2025

PUBLIC HOLIDAY - MONDAY 26 MAY

The Surgery will be closed for the Spring public holiday on Monday 26th May. Please make sure you collect any medication required prior to 1pm on Friday 23rd May.

To access urgent medical care overnight, at weekends or on public holidays:

In a life threatening medical emergency (e.g. chest pain, severe shortness of breath, a major accident or trauma, symptoms of a stroke) you should call 999.

If you have a non life-threatening but urgent medical problem you can access medical advice by visiting www.nhsinform.scot. If you feel you need to speak with or see a nurse or doctor regarding an urgent medical problem, you should call NHS24 on 111.

The Emergency Department is located within Islay Hospital in Bowmore. Whilst you are free to attend without first seeking advice, if you are able to access care by the routes above it will allow us to prioritise the use of limited space within the Hospital building.

NHS inform is Scotland's national health information service helping the people in Scotland to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of the people they care for

07/05/2025

PATIENT TRAVEL SURVEY

Throughout May, Islay charity Islay Connections, the Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership, the Islay Dental Practice, the Islay Medical Practice, The Jura Medical Practice and Islay Hospital will be running a patient travel survey to gather information about the journeys that island residents have to make for medical and dental care. We want to know about journeys on Islay itself as well as about journeys further afield from Islay on
the mainland.

We want to develop a comprehensive understanding of the way that current arrangements work to see if they can be improved and to explore whether new voluntary services, such as volunteer drivers and escorts, could be started.

To keep things simple we are using a single form to gather information about journeys both on and off Islay. Whether your journey is long or short, we want to understand as much as you can about each stage of your travel :

- what was easy
- what was difficult
- how the whole process could be improved.

The survey is anonymous. We ask for your age, s*x and the first 4 characters of your postcode so that we can see that we have a representative response from the community. We only want to know which postcode area you come from - we don’t want to know your name or your whole postcode.

PLEASE PICK UP A SURVEY FORM AT THE ISLAY DOCTORS’
SURGERIES, THE JURA SURGERY, THE ISLAY DENTAL SURGERY, OR
ISLAY HOSPITAL RECEPTION AND RETURN YOUR COMPLETED
SURVEY TO ONE OF THE COLLECTION BOXES AT WHICHEVER OF
THESE LOCATIONS IS CONVENIENT FOR YOU.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING PART IN THIS SURVEY

01/05/2025

The surgery will be closed on Monday 5th May for the Mayday bank holiday. Please plan your repeat medication orders accordingly. Thank you ☀️

17/04/2025

EASTER WEEKEND: Please note that the Surgery will be closed for routine business on Good Friday and Easter Monday this weekend, reopening at 8.30am on Tuesday 22nd April. The A&E department at Islay Hospital will be open throughout this period. In an emergency, always ring 999 first. For less urgent issues, either ring NHS24 on 111 or look online at www.nhs24.scot

11/02/2025

A reminder that when needing medical attention outwith surgery hours please ring 111 for non emergency care and 999 for urgent or emergency care. If appropriate an on call GP will be contacted, do not try to contact a GP directly as they may not be the GP working at that time. Thank you!

25/01/2025

We have no power and no internet at the surgery or at home so if medical attention is required you will have come get us at the house, Keils Croft. Thanks, hope everyone is ok, that was a scary day...

23/01/2025

Given the Met Office Red warning for Storm Eowyn tomorrow can everyone please collect any outstanding medication today and if you need an appointment for routine matters please try to get down today if possible. We will be open for anyone who needs to be seen tomorrow but it is looking like a dangerous day to be moving around the island.

Be sensible and careful with activities as air rescue will be difficult tomorrow.

17/12/2024

PHONE PROBLEMS: We are having intermittent internet connection issues this morning which are affecting our phone system. If you are unable to get through, please either call in or email us at jura.health@nhs.scot

16/12/2024

These are the Surgery opening times over the festive period, for week commencing 23rd December and week commencing 30th December:

Monday - open
Tuesday - open
Wednesday - closed
Thursday - closed
Friday - open

Surgery opening times are 8.30am til 1pm.

🎄 We wish all of our patients a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year 🎄

17/11/2024

COVID VACCINES: Our supply of vaccines reaches its expiry date THIS THURSDAY, the 21st November. After this date it will NOT be possible for the Surgery to source additional supplies or arrange vaccination at an alternative location. We continue to have a surplus of stock, so if you know you are eligible or are just interested in a booster, please call us on 01496 820218 during Surgery opening hours or email jura.health@nhs.scot to arrange an appointment. Our supply of flu vaccines have a much longer shelf life and will remain available to eligible patients until January 2025.

14/11/2024

Our current batch of covid vaccines need to be used by next week so if you know you’re eligible or are interested in receiving one please call the practice: 01496 820218