Covid Information
Long Covid Information
www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk - offers support and advice on people who are suffering clinically.
www.selfhelp.org.uk/covid19survivorsgroupuk - peer and social support through online groups.
The Post-COVID Syndrome Service (PCSS) at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) brings together a multi-disciplinary team of expert health professionals to help those who are suffering from Post-COVID Syndrome to improve their physical and psychological wellbeing, and daily functioning.
The PCSS will work with people to find ways to manage persisting symptoms to discover what changes can be made to help make a meaningful difference to their quality of life.
The service is now open to adults registered with a GP in the areas of Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Bolton or Wigan, alongside all Trust staff.
The service accepts self-referrals or referrals from other health professionals. The service will be available to those who are:
- living with the lasting effects and significant impact of a probable COVID-19 infection on physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing and/or daily functioning (including cognitive function);
- feeling low, anxious or otherwise finding it difficult to adjust to their experience of COVID-19;
- over the age of 18;
- registered with a GP in Manchester, Wigan, Salford, Bolton or Trafford.
For more information, please visit: gmmh.nhs.uk/post-covid-syndrome-service
Covid Vaccine Information
The vaccinations are being rolled out in different phases, and we have a lot of people to get through, so don’t worry if you’re not contacted immediately. Further vaccinations will take place in due course.
You will receive an invitation from your GP practice to come forward. This could be a telephone call, text message, or in some cases, a letter.
We are all experiencing a high volume of calls about the vaccine, which means our phone lines are very busy. Please be assured that we will be in touch with you to make the arrangements in due course.
If you have a query about the vaccine, visit the NHS.UK website or wait to be contacted by us. This will leave the phone lines free for people who need help with other matters.
Vaccination Centres and the national booking service
Now that more doses of Covid-19 are available, the NHS is able to open more vaccination services. People who are eligible and who live near these new vaccination services will receive letters from the NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service, telling them how they can book their appointment.
The NHS is rolling out additional services quickly, but it remains important that the public don’t try to book or go to these services before they receive their booking letter. And when you do book an appointment, please make sure you attend.
To ensure that those who are greatest risk get their vaccination first, we are asking the public to help us and wait for the NHS to contact them when it is their turn, and to not come to vaccination centres (or any other service) without an appointment. Vaccination Centres will also work directly with local health and care employers to directly book staff into appointments.
The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Booking Service
The NHS service will send out letters for eligible people to book their vaccine appointment.
They can do this in two ways:
- Booking online at nhs.uk/covid-vaccination
- Phoning 119.
The NHS will write to eligible people (based on the JCVI cohorts) offering them to book through this service. People will be able to book their appointment in a vaccination centre or community pharmacy.
The letter that people will receive also explains that people may have also been contacted by their GP services and if they have, make it clear that they can choose to book through their GP services or through the national booking service.
We cannot answer COVID-19 vaccine enquires or manage vaccination bookings on our practice telephone number. The NHS is prioritising vaccinating those people who experts have agreed will benefit from it the most. We will let you know when it is your turn to book your vaccination. In the meantime, you can get information about the COVID-19 Vaccination online at www.nhs.uk/covidvaccination.
If you have had your first jab, you will be contacted about getting your second and booster.For more information visit: www.nhs.uk/covid-vaccination
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