Hedena Health

05/09/2025

05/09/2025

🛡️ Stay Protected This Winter: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccines
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✅ Who Is Eligible for the Flu Vaccine?
• ✅ All adults aged 65 and over (including those turning 65 by 31 March 2026)
• ✅ Pregnant women
• ✅ Children aged 2 or 3 (on 31 August 2025)
• ✅ Primary and secondary school-aged children (Reception to Year 11 – offered in school only)
• ✅ Children aged 6 months to 17 in clinical risk groups
• ✅ Adults aged 18–64 in clinical risk groups
• ✅ Care home residents
• ✅ Carers and those who live with someone immunocompromised
• ✅ Health & social care staff without access to occupational health
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⚠️ COVID-19 Vaccine – Limited Eligibility in Autumn 2025
This year, COVID-19 booster jabs are being offered only to the highest-risk groups:
• ✅ Adults aged 75 and over (including those turning 75 by 31 January 2026)
• ✅ Residents of care homes for older adults
• ✅ People aged 6 months and over who are immunosuppressed
👉 COVID-19 vaccines are NOT being offered to all over-65s, general clinical risk groups, carers or household contacts this autumn.
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📲 How Will You Be Invited?
We will contact eligible patients as follows:
• SMS Text Message – if we have a valid mobile number on record
🔗 The message will include a booking link so you can choose your appointment
• Phone Call – for patients with landlines but no mobile
• You can also book by calling the practice or visiting reception
📞 Please avoid calling during our busiest times in the early morning
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💉 Vaccine Clinic Details
• Clinics will run throughout October, with catch-up clinics in November
• Housebound patients and care home residents will be contacted directly to arrange home visits

05/09/2025

PRESCRIPTION REQUESTS - Please allow two working days (48hrs) for your prescription request to be processed.
(Excluding bank holidays)
To ensure that prescriptions are issued to patients in a timely and safe manner please request your medications online.
The quickest and easiest way for most patients is to do this online.

How to Order a Repeat Prescription

05/09/2025

GOV.UK
UK emergency alert test 7 September 2025
A UK-wide emergency alert test will take place on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm.
Mobile phones will emit a loud siren and vibrate - even if they are on silent.
For more information about emergency alerts, including how it works, current alerts, past alerts, public testing, operator tests and opting out of emergency alerts, please open the link:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts

Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts tell you what to do to stay safe.

02/09/2025

Got the NHS app? If yes, please remember to switch on your notifications in your phone settings to ensure you receive any updates and/or messages! For more information please open the link:

What we use notifications for in the NHS App, and how to turn them on or off.

01/09/2025

A blood pressure test checks if your blood pressure is healthy, or if it's high or low.

Blood pressure is the term used to describe the strength with which your blood pushes on the sides of your arteries as it's pumped around your body.

Having this quick test is the only way to find out what your blood pressure is – and it could save your life.

Every September, blood pressure checks are taken by thousands to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Know Your Numbers! 8 - 14 September 2025. To find out more about Know your Numbers 2025, please open the link

1.5 million1.5 million people have had a free blood pressure check during our annual Know Your Numbers! Week, the UK’s biggest blood pressure testing and awareness event.

22/08/2025

https://healthwatchoxfordshire.co.uk/news/bank-holiday-monday-25th-august-pharmacy-opening-hours-for-oxfordshire/

Bank Holiday Monday 25th August pharmacy opening hours for Oxfordshire

The pharmacies listed in the link should be open as shown. The details are correct at the time of publishing but are subject to change. You are advised to contact the pharmacy before attending to ensure they are open and have the medication you require.

18/08/2025

GOV.UK
UK emergency alert test 7 September 2025

A UK-wide emergency alert test will take place on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm.

Mobile phones will emit a loud siren and vibrate - even if they are on silent.

For more information about emergency alerts, including how it works, current alerts, past alerts, public testing, operator tests and opting out of emergency alerts, please open the link:

https://www.gov.uk/alerts

Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts tell you what to do to stay safe.

15/08/2025

PRESCRIPTION REQUESTS - A reminder to please allow two working days (48hrs) for your prescription request to be processed.
(Excluding bank holidays)

To ensure that prescriptions are issued to patients in a timely and safe manner please request your medications online.
The quickest and easiest way for most patients is to do this online.
https://www.hedenahealth.co.uk/repeat-prescriptions
By ordering online there is no restriction as to when you can order, no waiting in a queue and less opportunities for error.
To order your prescription you can:
• Use the NHS App
• Online form - https://accurx.nhs.uk/patient-initiated/k84009
• Your pharmacy can also order your medication on your behalf. This saves you time and unnecessary visits to the Practice. Please contact the Pharmacy of your choice for more information if you wish to use this service.
• In person – By submitting a handwritten request at the practice
• By post