This website has been created to give you information about the services available and to help you make the best use of them. Our aim is to provide a first class medical service. We are always keen to improve our facilities and would welcome your ideas. If you have any suggestions please contact our practice managers, Ms Jackie Elvidge and Miss Shonagh Strathdee, or use the suggestion box in the waiting room.

We understand there is a keen interest in finding out when Covid vaccination will be rolled out by the practice. Vaccination of our care home residents/staff and medical staff are underway.

We will be starting to vaccinate patients aged 80+ years W/C 18th January 2021 in the practice. All patients in this age group will be contacted by telephone with an appointment date and time.

Please do not call the practice to enquire about vaccine availability.

The practice will be following the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation (JCVI) guidelines (below) throughout the Covid Vaccine roll out with the over 80’s being the next cohort of patients to be offered vaccination.

It is unclear at this stage, how much of the vaccine programme will be undertaken directly by the surgery. There are plans for larger clinics to be run throughout Grampian serving multiple practices, but final details on this are still to be confirmed. We will update you when more information is available.

JCVI advised the order of priority for the coronavirus vaccination is:

1. Residents and workers in care homes for older people

2. All those 80 years of age and over, frontline health & social care workers

3. All those 75 years of age and over

4. All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals

5. All those 65 years of age and over

6. All individuals ages 16years to 64 years wth underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality, and unpaid carers

7. All those 60 years of age and over

8. All those aged 55 years of age and over

9. All those aged 50 years of age and over 

FLU VACCINATIONS

Our local Pharmacies, Duke Street & Largue Pharmacy will be able to give flu vaccines for those who are over 60 or missed the earlier flu vaccine clinics.  Please telephone your local pharmacy to arrange an appointment Duke Street (01466 792141), Largue Pharmacy (01466 792728).

HOUSE OF CARE

Staff at Bydand Medical Group are getting ready for a new way of working with their patients who are living with long-term health conditions. This new way of working is based on a method called “the House of Care”. Having been tested in general practice in other parts of Scotland, it is now slowly spreading to practices across Grampian. The main change is that people receive a longer appointment to review their health, rather than a number of short appointments focusing on a single health condition. All the routine tests are still done, but the results are sent to the patient a couple of weeks before this appointment. The results are sent out so that they are easy to understand, along with some questions to prompt the person to think about their health. Their healthcare professional also sees all their results, and will offer the same high quality care as before. But with both having access to the results in advance, it is more likely that the appointment will focus on things that are important to the person.

Dr Fiona Reid, one of the GPs at the practice, said 'As a practice, we are very enthusiastic and excited to be moving to a House of Care approach for patients with long term conditions. The main difference with this is that patients will be able to look at their results and discuss them before their appointment and be able to make plans and goals for themselves. It will also be much more patient-centred and give them the real opportunity to be involved in their care and decision making. It will be exciting to be able to link in with the vast array of community resources that Huntly has to offer so that patients can be motivated to make lifestyle changes using diet, exercise and social interventions and not just medications.'

Living with a long-term health condition often involves tests and medications, but this is only a part of the picture. It also means being able to get on with everyday life, making decisions that protect and improve health for the future, drawing on available community support, and from the people around you. It is about facing down anxiety and uncertainty, maintaining hope and self-confidence, and experiencing meaning, belonging and purpose in everyday life. Most of what is important in living with long-term conditions can’t be found in a pill.

Bydand Medical Practice will contact people who are eligible for House of Care in the month of their birth, and invite them to make an initial appointment when the process will be explained and routine tests completed. The longer discussion appointment will then happen around two weeks later.

Doctors

Dr Barry Watt

Dr Linda Silcocks

Dr Shaughna McLuckie

Dr Julie Herald

Dr Fiona Reid

Dr Andrew Gatenby

Dr James Jack

Dr Aline Arthur.

In this Practice we do not have personal lists, all Patients are registered with the Practice and therefore can see any Doctor. We would however recommend you see the same Doctor for a continuing problem, if at all possible.

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