Welcome to Kirkhall Surgery

Kirkhall Doctors' Surgery in Prestwick provides the highest quality healthcare to patients in the Ayrshire area. Our doctors, nurses and all our other staff are dedicated to offering a professional service and this surgery website will help us to keep all our patients up to date with news and information about our practice.

As well as a source of information about our practice, the staff and the services we provide, we hope you will use this website as a useful resource for other health-related information. Please have a look around and do send us some feedback if you like. We can use your ideas to improve our online services and further develop the content of this site.

FLU Vaccinations + COVID Booster

This year the Health Board have asked the Surgery to offer Flu Vaccination and COVID Booster Vaccinations to patients over 80 years only. If you are in this category you will receive an invite letter to attend our clinic.
All other patients will receive a national letter to attend a vaccination centre.
The Surgery will be unable to vaccinate any patients outwith the over 80 years cohort as we will not receive any additional vaccine.
The Health Board are currently making arrangements to vaccinate housebound patients.

Patients aged 70-79 and those classed as Clinically Extremely Vulnerable are currently being invited to appointments at local Mass Vaccination Centres to receive their COVID Boosters and Flu Vaccines. This will continue until approximately mid-November. If you are in this age group, and have not received an invitation to attend a Mass Vaccination Centre by 16th November 2021, please contact the local appointing team on 01563 826540.

 For all other patient groups (out with the 70-79 and clinically extremely vulnerable groups), who are eligible for Flu Vaccine and/or COVID Booster, you will also be invited to attend a Mass Vaccination Centre throughout November and December. Patients will be invited for vaccination in priority order by age and high risk category and will receive an appointment letter in a blue envelope at the appropriate time.

Covid Vaccination exemptions

GP Practice have no direct/patient facing role in the clinical exemption process in Scotland. Persons eligible for exemption are being identified centrally. Scottish Government has been very clear that patients should absolutely not be directed to General Practice for this purpose.

Here is the SG information, which might be helpful:

          https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-certification-scheme-information-for-customers/pages/prove-exemption/

https://nhsinform-n4.azurewebsites.net/nhs-scotland-covid-status/covid-status-common-questions/covid-status-guidance-common-questions/

COVID Exemption Certificates

New measures to support GP Practice pressures

GP Demand

SURGERY OPENING TIMES

Monday         08.00* - 17.30  (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Tuesday        08.00* - 17.30  (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Wednesday   08.00* - 17.30
Thursday       08.00* - 17.30  (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*
Friday            08.00* - 17.30  (closed 12:45 - 13.30)*

*Telephone lines will be open for URGENT HOUSE CALLS ONLY between 08:00 - 08:30 and 12:45 - 13:30

PRESCRIPTION ORDERING

Vaccination Status

Please see below the link to the Scottish Government website for information on how patients can now access their vaccination status without the need to contact their GP Practice.

https://www.gov.scot/news/covid-19-vaccination-status-scheme-launches/

Patients will be able to access their Covid-19 Vaccination status online by logging on to www.nhsinform.scot/covid19status  

For those patients unable to access the information online they can call the freephone COVID status helpline to request their vaccination status which will be sent to them in the post.  The Freephone number is 0808 196 8565.

Facemask Exemption Information for Travel

Please do not contact your GP Practice to ask for face covering exemption letters as this is not something that your GP can provide. 

As per Scottish Government guidelines exemption certifications are not required, however, should you need this for travel purposes for any Airline you can request a free face covering exemption card by phoning 0800 121 6240 or through the NHS Scotland exemption card website. http://exempt.scot/

A&E Arrangements

 New A&E arrangements are now in place, please see the attached link for any patient who thinks they may need to attend the A&E Department.

Urgent Care Poster