Kew Medical Practice
14 High Park Road, Kew, Richmond, TW9 4BH
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Covid-19
We appreciate that you may have received a number of invitations and offers to have your Covid vaccination already. However, as lockdown eases and we all have more opportunities to socialise with friends and family, we wanted you to know that it’s not too late to get vaccinated against Covid.
Covid-19 infections rates are rising across England with the latest test-and-trace figures showing 45% more infections week-on-week. The Covid-19 vaccines are the best way to protect yourself and others from becoming seriously ill. Millions of people across the UK have now received a Covid-19 vaccine, which is a safe and effective way to help fight coronavirus. The latest analysis by Public Health England shows that, after two doses, the Covid vaccines are over 90% effective against hospitalisation with the Delta variant-which is now dominant in the UK. We understand you may have questions about the vaccine. Our South West London NHS website has lots of information about the vaccine including answers to frequently asked questions.
There are number of vaccination events happening which you can access, with no need for an appointment. The most up-to-date information about these walk-in clinics, including locations and times, can be found on the South West London NHS website.
If these vaccination clinics are not convenient for you then you can also book an appointment at any other vaccination site across South West London via the NHS National Booking Service or by calling 119.
We hope that you will consider joining the more than 800,000 people across South West London who have already been vaccinated against Covid-19.
In England, the vaccine is being offered in some hospitals and pharmacies, at local vaccination centres run by GPs and at larger vaccination centres. More centres are opening all the time.
It’s being given to:
people aged 65 and over
people who are at high risk from coronavirus (clinically extremely vulnerable)
people who live or work in care homes
health and social care workers
The order in which people will be offered the vaccine is based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
We will contact you when it is your turn to be vaccinated.
Please be assured that we have never wasted vaccine a the end of clinics. We work through the eligible cohorts.
The Practice staff do not have the ability to prioritise individual patients and will be guided by NHS England on who we can invite and when.
This priority list is as follows:
- residents in a care home for older adults and their carers √
- all those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers. √
- all those 75 years of age and over √
- all those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals-
People with the following conditions are automatically deemed clinically extremely vulnerable:
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5. all those 65 years of age and over
6. all individuals aged 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions. See table below
| Chronic respiratory disease | Individuals with a severe lung condition, including those with asthma that requires continuous or repeated use of systemic steroids or with previous exacerbations requiring hospital admission, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) including chronic bronchitis and emphysema; bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung fibrosis, pneumoconiosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). |
| Chronic heart disease and vascular disease | Congenital heart disease, hypertension with cardiac complications, chronic heart failure, individuals requiring regular medication and/or follow-up for ischaemic heart disease. This includes individuals with atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease or a history of venous thromboembolism. |
| Chronic Kidney Disease | Chronic kidney disease at stage 3, 4 or 5, chronic kidney failure, nephrotic syndrome, kidney transplantation. |
| Chronic liver disease | Cirrhosis, biliary atresia, chronic hepatitis. |
| Chronic neurological disease |
Stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA). Conditions in which respiratory function may be compromised due to neurological disease (e.g. polio syndrome sufferers). This includes individuals with cerebral palsy, severe or profound learning disabilities, Down’s Syndrome, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease and related or similar conditions; or hereditary and degenerative disease of the nervous system or muscles; or severe neurological disability. |
| Diabetes mellitus | Any diabetes, including diet-controlled diabetes. |
| Immunosuppression | Immunosuppression due to disease or treatment, including patients undergoing chemotherapy leading to immunosuppression, patients undergoing radical radiotherapy, solid organ transplant recipients, bone marrow or stem cell transplant recipients, HIV infection at all stages, multiple myeloma or genetic disorders affecting the immune system (e.g. IRAK-4, NEMO, complement disorder, SCID). Individuals who are receiving immunosuppressive or immunomodulating biological therapy including, but not limited to, anti-TNF, alemtuzumab, ofatumumab, rituximab, patients receiving protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors, and individuals treated with steroid sparing agents such as cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil. Individuals treated with or likely to be treated with systemic steroids for more than a month at a dose equivalent to prednisolone at 20mg or more per day for adults. Anyone with a history of haematological malignancy, including leukaemia, lymphoma, and myeloma and those with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis who may require long term immunosuppressive treatments. Most of the more severely immunosuppressed individuals in this group should already be flagged as CEV. Individuals who are not yet on the CEV list but who are about to receive highly immunosuppressive interventions or those whose level of immunosuppression is about to increase may be therefore be offered vaccine alongside the CEV group, if therapy can be safely delayed or there is sufficient time (ideally two weeks) before therapy commences. Some immunosuppressed patients may have a suboptimal immunological response to the vaccine (see Immunosuppression and HIV). |
| Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen |
This also includes conditions that may lead to splenic dysfunction, such as homozygous sickle cell disease, thalassemia major and coeliac syndrome |
| Morbid obesity | Adults with a Body Mass Index ≥40 kg/m². |
| Severe mental illness | Individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or any mental illness that causes severe functional impairment. |
| Adult carers | Those who are eligible for a carer’s allowance, or those who are the sole or primary carer of an elderly or disabled person who is at increased risk of COVID-19 mortality and therefore clinically vulnerable. |
| Younger adults in long-stay nursing and residential care settings |
Many younger adults in residential care settings will be eligible for vaccination because they fall into one of the clinical risk groups above (for example learning disabilities). Given the likely high risk of exposure in these settings, where a high proportion of the population would be considered eligible, vaccination of the whole resident population is recommended. Younger residents in care homes for the elderly will be at high risk of exposure, and although they may be at lower risk of mortality than older residents should not be excluded from vaccination programmes. |
Please note: asthma does not automatically qualify you for a priority covid vaccine. Please read the criteria
7. all those 60 years of age and over
8. all those 55 years of age and over
9. all those 50 years of age and over
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08:30 until 13:30
14:30 until 18:30 - Tuesday
08:30 until 13:30
14:30 until 18:30 - Wednesday
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14:30 until 18:30 - Thursday
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14:30 until 18:30 - Friday
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14:30 until 18:30 - Saturday
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