Bruntsfield Medical Practice

Breast Screening 2013

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:11:00 +0000

Breast Cancer Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting woman in the UK. In Scotland 1 in 8 woman are diagnosed with it, with around 1000 deaths in Scotland each year. Breast Screening Breast cancer screening involves an X-ray examination called a mammogram, which tries to detect cancer before it causes symptoms or findings [...]

Website Security

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:19:53 +0000

If you’re a regular user of our website, and especially if you ever send us information through any one of our forms, such as the Cancel Appointment form, or the Repeat Medication Request form, you will be interested to know that your browsing experience is now much more secure. This is because the Practice has [...]

No Smoking Day 2013

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:30:09 +0000

In 2013, Wednesday 13th March is No Smoking Day in the UK. This year the theme, Swap Fags for Swag, is all about what smokers will gain when they quit – as well as improved health, they’ll have extra cash to spend on whatever they like! Stopping smoking now could be like giving yourself a [...]

Preferred Pharmacy for Repeat Prescriptions

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:49:23 +0000

We are about to begin using a function within our Practice clinical system that will allow us to print your choice of destination for your prescriptions on the counterfoil page, whether it is for you to collect them from us, for us to post them to you, or whether they are to go to your [...]

Winter 2012 Newsletter

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:39:20 +0000

The Winter 2012 issue of the Bruntsfield Medical Practice newsletter is now available to read online. In this quarter’s issue we report back our findings from the recent survey we carried out on our repeat prescribing process. We also mention our call for patient consents to send information by text (as we did online a [...]

Alcohol Awareness Week 2012

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:30:17 +0000

This year, Alcohol Awareness Week runs from 19-25 November 2012. Alcohol Concern reported that it has been found by many supporter organisations that a date in the run up to Christmas lends itself to making people think about alcohol and the amount they consume. With this in mind, the practice plan to focus on alcohol [...]

End to Bruntsfield Well Baby Clinic

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:57:11 +0000

From this month, the Health Visiting team led Well Baby Clinic, that was run on Wednesdays at the Practice, will no longer be held. Babies under 1 year can be weighed at Patchwork. Venues: Elim @ Holy Corner – Thursday 1pm-2.15pm Boroughloch Medical Practice – Monday 10.30am-12noon

Text Messaging

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:29:01 +0000

123RF Stock Photo The Practice is planning a trial of using text based messages to patients’ mobile phones. These would only be used occasionally and it would solely be for non-clinical reasons e.g. to invite individuals to book an annual review appointment or flu clinic appointment. We will not be sending any clinical information, such [...]

Whooping Cough – advice for pregnant women

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:34:18 +0000

In the last few months, whooping cough has been rising sharply, with over 16 times as many cases up to the middle of September 2012 compared with the same time in 2011. You can help protect your unborn baby from getting whooping cough in his or her first weeks of life by having the whooping [...]

Musculoskeletal Advice and Triage Service

K McDonald - IT Supervisor — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:50:17 +0000

A new phoneline has been launched today within Lothian to help people suffering from musculoskeletal aches and pains – everything from a sprained ankle to a stiff neck. The phoneline is run by NHS24, and is available for adults only, Monday-Friday, 2pm-8pm. 0845 604 0001 As well as the phoneline, there is a whole library [...]