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4worldlovers: Hillside Bridge Health Centre, 4 Butler St W, Bradford BD3 0BS, United Kingdom

4worldlovers:
We would like to share some of the difficulties we are experiencing with gaps in our workforce. Recently we have said goodbye to receptionists, nurses and doctors, mainly due to the level of verbal abuse levelled at the team by patients.


Abuse has increased significantly over the last 2 years leaving us with a front of house team with little experience. Please be tolerant of any minor mistakes that may be made and be assured that the staff are doing their best to accommodate what the patients need.

At times it may be necessary to cancel or move appointments at short notice due to gaps in our teams. We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience this can cause, however, any rude or abusive behaviour towards any staff member is not acceptable.

We have a zero-tolerance policy towards rude and abusive behaviour. Any patient in breach of this policy will be contacted in writing and in some cases may be removed from the practice list.

We appreciate your cooperation at what is a challenging time for all of us.

Community Action Bradford & District, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, and Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership (Act as One) have worked alongside voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations to establish a network of Warm Spaces throughout the district this winter

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You can download a handy booklet to help you know what to do and when to access health services when your child is feeling poorly. The booklet gives you advice about how to help treat your child at home when they have a common childhood illness like a cough, a cold or sickness and diarrhoea. Also included is some advice about asthma.

When you ring to book a GP appointment, you might notice the reception team will ask you for a brief outline of how they can help you.

This is because we have introduced something called Care Navigation. It means reception teams at GP practices across Bradford District and Craven have been trained to ensure they can help you to find the best service for your needs, so you can receive the right care more quickly.

The service is only for all patients and anything you share will be kept confidential.

Through this specialist training, reception teams will be able to direct you to the most appropriate clinician or service for your needs.

Reception staff will never offer clinical advice. Instead, this new way of working is about offering your choice to see more appropriate professionals in your local practice team or even somewhere else. If they can deal with the problem directly, it will often be quicker and means you may not need to see a GP at all.

By working this way, it helps to free-up time for GPs to care for patients with complex or serious health conditions that can only be managed by a doctor. More importantly though, it means people are seen first by the clinician that is best placed to help you with your health needs.

This practice is part of the extended access service which provides GP, Physiotherapy, Nurse, and Health care assistant appointments from the following locations (hubs) across Bradford:

North hub: Shipley Medical Practice, Alexandra Road, Shipley, Bradford BD18 3EG

Central hub: Picton Medical Centre, Westbourne Green Community Health Care Centre, Manningham, Bradford, BD8 8RA

South hub: The Ridge Medical Practice, Cousen Road, Bradford, BD7 3JX

As a patient registered with this practice, you have access to the following:

Evening appointments (6.30pm – 9.30pm) at any of the three hubs to see one of the following, subject to availability:

Weekend appointments are available with a GP from 10.00am - 1.00pm on Saturdays and Sundays from the central hub, subject to availability.

The service is run by Bradford Care Alliance, which represents all GP practices in the Bradford area. Medical appointments are with GPs and other healthcare staff who work in the area; so your appointment may not be with a clinician from this practice.

To use the service we will ask for your consent to share your medical record and our reception staff will explain what this means and why it is necessary. Click here to learn more about how and why we process your information.

Further details of the services and location maps are available here.

4worldlovers:
Please consider we care for over 10,000 patients and our phones are very busy. If your problem is urgent and requires a same day response you need to ring before 9.30am if possible.

Calls after 9.30am will be passed to our administrative team for assessment, care navigation and processing. Alternatively you can submit a request via PATCHS, you will recieve a response from us by the end of the next working day.

If your request is assessed as requiring same day treatment an appointment will be made for you.

If you have a face to face appointment please arrive up to 10 minutes before your appointment.

"We aim to provide holistic high quality patient centered care in a safe environment for our patients and staff in inner city Bradford."

We are a friendly, caring and supportive highly skilled team providing a range of services to patients.

We are a teaching and training practice with a strong emphasis on the development of staff to ensure that quality of care is a priority.

NHS services across the North East and Yorkshire region are experiencing extremely high demand at the moment. This includes GP practices and the 111 service which are both extremely busy.

If you need advice for a minor/mild illness or injury, in the first instance please either contact your local pharmacy for help or look at the self-care that’s available online from the NHS website - The NHS website - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

If you want to check your symptoms, there is an online symptoms checked available at Get help for your symptoms - NHS 111 which will re-direct you to a health professional if you need to be consulted by someone.

For parents of young children, concerned about Strep A, this video has some very sensible advice. For more information click the link - Strep A - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

4worldlovers:
Group A Streptococcus (GAS), also known as Strep A, are bacteria commonly found on the skin or in the throat. Under some circumstances these bacteria can cause disease.


GAS infection commonly presents as a mild sore throat ('strep throat') and skin/soft tissue infections such as impetigo and cellulitis.


Your child is having difficulty breathing (you may notice grunting noises or their tummy sucking under their ribs)

Your child is floppy and will not wake up or stay awake

Has had a dry nappy for 12 hours or more or shows other signs of dehydration

Is older than 3 months and has a temperature of 39°C or higher

Feels hotter than usual when you touch their back or chest, or feels sweaty

If you feel that your child is seriously unwell, trust your own judgement and seek medical assistance.

GAS bacteria can cause a wide variety of skin, soft tissue and respiratory tract infections ranging in severity from mild to life-threatening. These include:

GAS can very rarely cause more serious conditions, known as invasive group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infections. These can include:

Necrotising fasciitis (a severe infection involving death of areas of soft tissue below the skin)

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (rapidly progressive symptoms with low blood pressure and multi-organ failure)

IGAS infections tend to happen in the elderly, the very young, or people with an underlying risk factor such as injecting drug use, alcoholism, immunosuppression or cancer.

GAS are spread by close contact between individuals, through respiratory droplets (moisture in your breath) and direct skin contact.

To help reduce the risk of picking up or spreading infections: