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We would like to advise patients that our surgery will be closed on Monday 19 September for the bank holiday announced due to Her Majesty The Queen’s funeral. If you … [continue] Her Majesty The Queen’s Funeral Arrangements – Bank Holiday 19th September 2022

The Household Support Fund is available to people who are struggling to afford energy, food, water bills and other essentials – and will be available until 30 September 2022. The … [continue] Cumbria County Council – The Household Support Fund

Update as at 25/01/22 To help protect patients and staff, we will continue to ask all patients, staff and visitors, to continue to wear masks, use sanitiser and respect social … [continue] Covid-19 – Mask Update

The government is announcing an increase in Covid19 cases every day and pushing to increase the numbers of the population who are fully vaccinated and have had their booster. In … [continue] Important Practice Update

The NHS and its partners are working extremely hard to roll out the COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to our communities. All adults are eligible from Monday 13 December, and you … [continue] Message to our patients – update on the COVID-19 booster programme

The NHS and its partners are working extremely hard to roll out the COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to our communities. All adults are eligible from Monday 13 December, and you … [continue] Message to our patients – update on the COVID-19 booster programme

Patient Update:   As per the letter from Jo Churchill, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Health Promotion   NHS Digital has paused the collection of this data, to … [continue] General Practice Data for Planning and Research update 21/07/21

Update To all the patients Following the government’s announcement regarding the changes to restrictions from Monday 19th July. We would like to inform patients that wearing facemasks on surgery sites … [continue]

This link from NHS Digital explains why data is shared, it contains their transparency & privacy notices for doing so and also points to links where the patient can opt … [continue] Opting out of NHS Digital collecting your data

Thank you for your enquiry about your need to isolate for 12 weeks. Please follow this link to the Government guidance. This guidance covers the whole of the UK population and … [continue] Enquiries about your need to isolate for 12 weeks

We have received lots of calls by patients who have been advised to contact us by their employers or by Schools. Before contacting us please read the following guidance. If … [continue] Contacting the surgery

For many people with a blood cancer or blood disorder a donation from a matching blood stem cell donor is their best chance of survival.  With blood stem cell donation, … [continue] Blood stem cell donation

We are trying really hard to ensure our patients only use A&E in a genuine emergency.  If you have a minor injury and you don’t want to have to wait … [continue] Minor injuries

There’s plenty of information and updates about the practice in the Autumn 2019 issue of our newsletter. Click here to read in full

You may have heard of some changes being made to the running of Queen Street Medical Practice.  We have been chosen to be one of the first GP practices to … [continue] North Cumbria Primary Care

Changes at Queen Street Medical Practice and Lowther Medical Centre Dr Graham Ironside has been a GP at Queen Street Medical Practice for over 30 and has dedicated his career … [continue] Important Patient News