Rumney Primary Care Centre

13/11/2025

Good Afternoon

Next week (18th November 2025-24th November 2025) is Antibiotic Awareness Week!

-Key messages for patients
-Only use antibiotics when prescribed: They are only effective against bacterial infections, not viral illnesses like the common cold or flu.
-Take them as directed: Complete the full course of antibiotics exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider to ensure they are effective.
-Never share antibiotics: Do not take leftover prescriptions from previous illnesses or share your antibiotics with others.
-Prevent infections: Good hygiene, such as handwashing, and staying up to date with vaccinations can help prevent infections from occurring in the first place.
-Many illnesses can be treated without antibiotics please utilise the NHS Wales Symptom checker: https://111.wales.nhs.uk/selfassessments/symptomcheckers/?ScName=GenerallyUnwell2&SCTId=155

Many Thanks for your support

RPCC

14/10/2025

Good Morning!

We still have plenty of availability for our eligible patients in our flu clinic on Saturday 18th October, please contact the surgery to book in.

Look forward to seeing you there!

RPCC

26/09/2025

25/09/2025

Good afternoon!

It is very sad that we have to do this, but we have been getting some questions.

Please do not listen to Trump.

https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/paracetamol-and-pregnancy-reminder-that-taking-paracetamol-during-pregnancy-remains-safe?utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DSU+(September+2025)+-+Main+2&es_c=0C2BDD445614F8C0D560AC0B8C34EA22&es_cl=B130A04BF1E19E94D7D19B5952034CD7&es_id=y77%C2%A3o2

Thanks RPCC

Patients should be reminded and reassured that there is no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Paracetamol is recommended as the first-choice pain reliever for pregnant women, used at the lowest dose and for the shortest duration. It also acts as an antipyret...

18/09/2025

****UPDATED****

We are all up and running again now!

Good Morning!

It is not our week 😔!

Currently we are having PC issues, please bare with us as this gets resolved. It has been escalated and we will be back online as soon as we can.

Many thanks for your patience

RPCC

16/09/2025

****UPDATE****

We are now back in the practice. We will be contacting those patients who should have had an appointment this morning to reschedule. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Please bare with us whilst we rearrange these.

Good morning,

Unfortunatly we have had an electrical fire at the surgery, everyone is safe but we have had to evacuate and are unable to re enter the building until the fire brigade has said it safe to do so.

For emergency care please call 999

We will keep you updated once we know more.

Thank you for your patience

RPCC

03/09/2025

Good Afternoon!

Our technical issues with the NHS Wales App are now (🤞) resolved. Appointment requests will be available tomorrow morning at 08:00.

Many thanks for your patience.

RPCC

02/09/2025

Good Afternoon!

Please note you can no longer book appointments via the NHS Wales App, however patients can REQUEST an appointment. We have made this change to our booking system to improve our service and ensure fair access to appointments. Please log onto the App as normal to request an appointment.

Your REQUEST for an appointment may be followed up with a request for more information, we will use the information to choose the most appropriate doctor, nurse, or health care professional to help you. In some cases, depending on the information given, an appointment may be made for a future date, and you may be asked to attend the surgery. After assessment, the GP may feel an appointment is not appropriate at this time.

These changes are part of our efforts to ensure appointments are allocated based on clinical need.

Patients with serious medical emergencies should not delay treatment whilst trying to contact the surgery. If you are experiencing severe chest pain, severe breathing difficulties, one sided weakness, slurred speech, severe bleeding, or for any condition you feel needs urgent or immediate medical attention, do not hesitate to call 999.

Thanks
RPCC

14/08/2025

Good Morning!

The Welsh Blood Service blood service has asked us to reach out to our patients please follow the link below to donate.

https://donorportal.wales.nhs.uk/clinicsearch?lang=en-GB&Location=CF3%203LG

There are still 46 slots to fill!

please help

Many Thanks

RPCC

12/08/2025

Good Morning!
From the 1st October 2025 we will be offering the Seasonal Flu vaccine to eligible patients.
Please contact the surgery to book an appointment if you meet of the following criteria:
-Aged 65 and over
-Chronic Respiratory Disease
-Chronic Heart Disease
-Chronic Kidney Disease
-Chronic Liver Disease
-Chronic Neurological Disease
-Learning Disability
-Severe Mental Illness
-Diabetes
-Epilepsy
-Immunosuppression
-Asplenia or dysfunction of the spleen
-Morbidly obese
-Pregnant
-Unpaid Carers
We look forward to seeing you!
RPCC

Be vaccinated Rumney Primary Care Centre & get the Flu Jab
Please support our flu clinics this year and get vaccinated with us if you are eligible - why?

Like all other GP Surgeries, we rely on funding from each flu jab we give to help cover running costs and to keep the practice viable, sustainable and allows us to maintain services. This is even more important currently due to the lack of funding and investment by Welsh Government

Every single flu jab you have elsewhere means loss of funding for your GP surgery, which puts us even more at risk. You might be told by other providers that they are giving flu jabs to help ease your GP's workload - this is more than a little disingenuous - we are more than capable of administering thousands of flu jabs with military precision each year as we have been doing for decades. Therefore please support your local surgery by having your flu jab with us .

We know that other providers like pharmacies and supermarkets offer flu jabs to patients and there is nothing wrong in deciding to have your vaccine in this way. We will be notified, and it will be recorded in your medical records

Ultimately having your flu jab with us, you are ensuring that crucial resources stay with your GP surgery to enable us to improve our services and remain sustainable.

Thank you for your support
RPCC