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This includes people of all ages – even if you do not have any symptoms or other health conditions.
You should only leave the house for 1 of 4 reasons:
- shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible
- one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your household
- any medical need, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person
- travelling to and from work, but only where this absolutely cannot be done from home
These 4 reasons are exceptions – even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.
There is separate advice about:
- staying at home if you're at high risk of getting seriously ill from coronavirus
- staying at home if you or someone you live with has symptoms of coronavirus
To help yourself stay well while you're at home:
- stay in touch with family and friends over the phone or on social media
- try to keep yourself busy – you could try activities like cooking, reading, online learning and watching films
- do light exercise at home, or outside once a day
If you need medical help for any reason, do not go to places like a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.
If you have symptoms of coronavirus (a high temperature or a new, continuous cough), use the 111 coronavirus service.
If you need help or advice not related to coronavirus:
- for health information and advice, use the NHS websiteor your GP surgery website
- for urgent medical help, use the NHS 111 online service– only call 111 if you're unable to get help online
- for life-threatening emergencies, call 999 for an ambulance
Read the full advice on protecting yourself if you're at high risk from coronavirus on GOV.UK.
If you live with someone who has symptoms of coronavirus, you can get an isolation note, you do not need to get a note from a GP.
Only call 111 if you cannot get help online.
For further information go to nhs.uk/coronavirus or gov.uk/coronavirus.
As per Public Health England advice, we are starting to convert all of our face to face GP appopointments to telephone appointments.
We need to increase our capacity for urgent workload over the coming weeks, so if you have a routine appointment booked, please consider if it is still necessary and cancel if not.
You can still access our GPs via our eConsult service- see access point on this Home Page.
Thank you for your understanding.
We now have eConsult which allows patients to contact our practice and clinicians for medical and administrative requests. Next time you need to contact the practice, click on the banner and fill out a quick form.
eConsult is a free to use online consultation platform, which allows anyone registered at the practice to submit a medical or administrative request online at any time of the day, 7 days a week. Our team will review every request and make sure it is passed to the most relevant healthcare professional. If you need a face to face appointment we can arrange that for you, or it might even save you a trip to the practice. We will always get back to you by the end of the next working day, if not sooner.
DO YOU NEED HELP WITH PRESCRIPTION COLLECTION AND DELIVERY, OR WITH SHOPPING?
Witney Scouts have set up a fantastic service in conjunction with Windrush Health Centre, but which is available to all Witney GP practices.
Please call 07801 745 768 between 10 am and 12 noon or between 1 pm and 3.30 pm. If there is an answerphone message please leave:-
- your name
- your date of birth
- your address
- your telephone number
- the name of the pharmacy which you use and (if it has more than one branch – which branch you use eg Boots in the High Street or Boots on Deer Park).
The information will be logged and you will receive confirmation.
It will then passed on to the groups who are physically collecting and delivering the medication.
If you have a medication which needs urgent delivery (eg less than 4 working hours) then Title that email URGENT Delivery Required and also write that in the body of the email. Any urgent deliveries can be directed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
* NB: if you are not exempt from paying for your prescriptions please contact the pharmacy first to either pay over the phone or advise the pharmacy of their exemption before contacting us to ask to be put on the list for collection.
If you have a repeat prescription, then order it in the usual way either electronically or by ringing the Practice.
Volunteers will leave the medication at your front (or main access) door.
The expansion of this service is being wonderfully provided by volunteers from the Scouts and the Land Army, to whom we are really grateful.
We were recently inspected by the CQC and unfortunately we were given a rating of Requires improvement. This will not affect your care in any way; it was due to some errors that were evident on the day of the inspection. All of the errors were corrected on the day or at the latest within 2 days of the inspection. If you would like to discuss the rating, please contact Catherine Simonini, Practice Manager.
