Welcome to Rosehall Medical Practice Online

  Welcome to our practice website. We aim to provide all of our patients with a comprehensive range of healthcare services covering one-off problems to longer term illnesses. Feel free to explore the site and find out how you and your family can benefit from our personal and professional approach to healthcare provision.

Flu & Covid vaccines 2025

The practice will soon be issuing invitations to our vaccine clinics which will be held on

Sunday 12th & Sunday 19th October

There will be catch up clinics available at the end of October, please check back for further information

Patients will start to receive invite links from 1st October. We recommend families travel together so if invitations are received for different dates please come along together, there is no requirement to phone the practice and advise staff.

There has been a change to the patients eligible for the Covid vaccine..

COVID autumn/ winter programme 2025/26

The vaccination programme, to help protect Northern Ireland against deadly viruses ahead of winter, will be available from 6 October until January 2026.

You will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine if you are:

• aged 75 and over
• a resident or staff member in a care home
• aged six months to 74 years and immunosuppressed

You may be eligible for both the flu and the COVID-19 vaccines.

If you're offered both vaccines, it's safe to have them at the same time.

The vaccine that will be administered during the autumn 2025/26 programme is COVID-19 Comirnaty® JN.1 (Pfizer)

For more information on the flu vaccine please click on the blue link below to view the Public Health leaflet

Flu Vaccine Information

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Respiratory syncytial Virus (RSV)

What is RSV?

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system. RSV infection is common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people

How does the vaccine work?

Almost all older adults will have had several RSV infections during their life. A single dose of vaccine will help to boost protection as you reach an age group at highest risk of serious RSV infection

Who should have the vaccine? 

Everyone turning 75 years old on or after the 1 September 2024 will be offered a single dose of RSV vaccine. This is because older adults are more at risk of serious complications from RSV. You can still get the vaccine up to the day before you turn 80.

For the first year of the programme, the vaccine will also be offered to those who are already aged 75 to 79 years on 1 September 2024 as part of a catch up programme.

Our reception team will soon be contacting everyone that is eligible by text message or phone. Clinics with our Practice Nurse will begin in September.

Clinics for other vaccines including FLU & COVID will be scheduled for October / November

Please click the link below for a leaflet containing more information about the virus and the vaccine from Public Health Agency

https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/sites/default/files/2024-08/RSV%20Older%20Adults%204pp%20A5%20leaflet%2007_24.pdf

Prescription Collections

Please allow 48 hours for all prescriptions to be issued from date of ordering. If  your prescription goes to a pharmacy please allow 3 working days from date of ordering. As this is a service provided by the pharmacy we have no control over the prescription once it has left us. 

If ordering your prescription via our practice website over the weekend ie after 4.30 on a Friday and 9am on a Monday, please be aware this will not be looked at until Monday afternoon, therefore you need to allow extra time before collecting at the surgery or your nominated pharmacy.

Please be aware that not all pharmacies collect from us on a daily basis, some only collect twice weekly, therefore prescriptions will take longer than the normal 3 working days. Please enquire with the pharmacy re collection days.

Convenience

As well as being able to see when we are open at the click of a mouse we’ve made it easier for you to do a number of things. Check out how to order a repeat prescription  online.

Join Us

Registering can be done in person at reception. You’ll enjoy a confidential service in comfortable surroundings from a helpful and dedicated team.  The practice covers postcodes BT36 and BT37 within a 5 mile radius

Our professional team will ensure you receive the best attention at all times whether you’re attending a specialist clinic or a routine appointment. If you’re new to the area registration is easy and comes with the comfort of discretion and confidentiality assured.

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