Practice news & health campaigns
The latest information and advice on Coronavirus (COVID-19), including who to phone with symptoms or general enquiries, and sources of advice and information.
Read more...We are seeking an enthusiastic employee to take up a new Receptionist post to compliment our well established and friendly practice team.
Read more...The Angus Mental Health Peer Workers service is a new service from Hillcrest Futures to provide peer support to people with their mental health and wellbeing. Find out about this and other services in Angus.
Read more...Academy Medical Centre are offering vaccination to all eligible patients. Appointments will be available to book from Wednesday 16 September 2020. Find out how to book and view a video about what to expect during your vaccination appointment.
Read more...Living in Angus with persistent pain? Want to do something about it? Try the Pain Association Scotland online course, starting 6 October.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Suicide Prevention and Blood Pressure Awareness. Please share and raise awareness.
Read more...SilverCloud online programmes help reduce symptoms of low mood, anxiety and stress. There are several programmes available each specifically tailored to treat a different clinical condition.
Read more...The practice will be closed between 1pm and 2pm for staff training on various days in September, December, January and February. Details of the dates are available on our list of practice closures.
Read more...Staff working at the 2 Sisters factory in Coupar Angus have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past few days. The specialist teams from NHS Tayside, Perth & Kinross Council and Public Health Scotland, have taken a number of decisions to keep everyone safe.
Read more...From Friday 10 July it became mandatory to wear a face mask/covering in shops and indoor public areas including our surgery. Find out about exemptions and print out a card.
Read more...The surgery will be closed on Monday 27 July 2020 in line with the public holidays for GP practices across Tayside. We will be open as usual from 8am on Tuesday 28 July.
Read more...Announcing our new eConsult service... get self-help advice for hundreds of common conditions and request advice and treatment from the practice online.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Sickle Cell Awareness Month, World Hepatitis Day, and Talk to Us - Samaritans Awareness Month. Please share and raise awareness.
Read more...The Keeping Well at Home printed booklet is for older people who are digitally excluded. This free resource is specifically targeted at those who are currently unable to go outside, or have limited or no access to online resources. Please print and share it with your friends, family and community.
Read more...Community alarm and telecare cover a range of devices and services that use technology to keep you safe in your own home and help you to maintain your independence. Find out more about the technology available and how to make a referral direct to Angus Health & Social Care Partnership.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Carers Week, Men's Health Week, and Cervical Screening Awareness Week.
Read more...The latest practice newsletter is now available. The Summer issue includes information about services during the Coronavirus pandemic, staff changes, a welcome back to our Behavioural Health Psychologists, Near Me Video Consulting, physical activity and keeping active at home, osteoporosis prevention and care, First Contact Physiotherapy Service, and living with pain.
Read more...Academy Medical Centre is now using Near Me, a video consulting service, that enables you to have health care appointments from home or wherever is convenient. All you need is a device for making video calls like a smartphone and an internet connection.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Sun Awareness Week, Deaf Awareness Week, and Anaphylaxis Awareness Week.
Read more...Staying at home just now may be difficult but in doing so you are helping protect yourself and others. You may be feeling anxious, low, worried, bored, frustrated but this situation is temporary. Here are things from Angela Gorman, our Mental Health & Wellbeing Nurse, that you could do to manage your mental health and wellbeing whilst at home.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Stress/Anxiety Awareness and Bowel Cancer Awareness.
Read more...The My Guide service supports people who are blind and partially sighted get out and about in their community. My Guide partners trained volunteers with a blind or partially sighted person to help them get out and about on their own terms.
Read more...The latest practice newsletter is now available. The Spring issue includes information about your Key Information Summary (KIS), children and young peoples’ mental health, our dedicated mental health and wellbeing nurse, spring/summer public holidays, and top tips to help when dealing with stress.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features No Smoking Day on Wednesday 11 March and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, as well as some other news from your PPG.
Read more...We now have all of our revised patient information leaflets available to view or download online, as well as in the practice. Covering many aspects of the practice, our information leaflets are a good way to find out about the services we provide.
Read more...Notes of the meeting of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on Tuesday 11 February 2020 are now available.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features National Heart Month and mental health for children.
Read more...Our next Third Sector Health Hub will take place on Monday 17 February at Academy Medical Centre between 2pm – 3:30pm. These events are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat. Organisations in attendance include ANGUSalive Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Service, Angus Citizens Advice Bureau, Angus Alcohol and Drug Partnership (AADP), Dundee & Angus ADHD Support and Home Energy Scotland (HES).
Read more...Details of when the practice will be closed during 2020 for public holidays and protected learning days.
Read more...Notes of the Meeting of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on Tuesday 14 January 2020 are now available.
Read more...Future Pathways offers help and support to people who were abused or neglected as children while they were living in care in Scotland.
Read more...Our next Third Sector Health Hub will take place on Monday 20 January at Academy Medical Centre between 2pm – 3:30pm. These events are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat. Organisations in attendance include Angus Citizens Advice Bureau, Housing Solutions, Angus Falls Service, and Move More ANGUSalive.
Read more...People in Forfar and Kirriemuir who have not yet been vaccinated against flu in the 2019/20 flu season have another chance to protect themselves against flu at a catch up session. This final session will be held at Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre on Saturday 18 January from 8am to 12 noon.
Read more...From January 2020 patients will no longer receive liquid nitrogen treatment in the practice for warts or verrucas. Instead patients will be directed to the community pharmacy for over the counter preparations for treatment of warts or verrucas.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features New Year New You, with some suggestions for information resources, Cervical Cancer Awareness, and Young Carers Awareness Day.
Read more...Notes of the Meetings of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on 10 December 2019 are now available.
Read more...Find out when we are closed over Christmas & New Year, and what to do if you are ill when the surgery is closed and you can't wait until it reopens.
Read more...This week we said a sad farewell to Margaret Murray. Margaret has been a Practice Nurse and latterly Nurse Practitioner with us for the last 12 years.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features International Volunteer Day, Crohns and Colitis Awareness Week, and Decembeard for Bowel Cancer.
Read more...The latest practice newsletter is now available. The Winter issue includes information about our new Online Appointment Service, our Patient Participation Group (PPG), staff changes and successes, Christmas opening, and Third Sector Health Hub events.
Read more...Our next Third Sector Health Hub will take place on Monday 16 December at Academy Medical Centre between 2pm - 2:30pm. These events are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat. Organisations in attendance include Angus Citizens Advice Bureau, Housing Solutions, Angus Falls Service, and Move More ANGUSalive.
Read more...Notes of the Meetings of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on 12 November 2019 are now available.
Read more...We have three additional flu clinic dates in December for adults who have not yet attended for flu vaccination. The clinics will take place at Whitehills Health & Community Care Centre, Forfar. Find out the dates and times.
Read more...We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated doctor to join our practice. We are a friendly, long established and innovative practice with a commitment to providing high quality person-centred care to our patients.
Read more...Notes of the Meetings of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on 1 October and 13 August 2019 are now available.
Read more...Please note the Practice will be closed from 12:30pm on Wednesday 6 November 2019 for training and staff development.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features World COPD Day, Alcohol Awareness Week, Self Care Week and Movember.
Read more...Hear Me Counselling Services is a free and confidential service for survivors of sexual abuse.
Read more...If you are an adult living in Angus with Fatigue you are warmly invited to register for the Fatigue Management Programme.
Read more...The surgery will be closed on Monday 7 October in line with the public holidays for GP practices across Tayside. We will be open as usual from 8am on Tuesday 8 October.
Read more...Falls are a common problem and as we get older we can be more likely to experience a fall. It is therefore important to identify what is causing you to fall in order to reduce the chance of it happening again. The Falls Assessor, Joyce Simpson, can triage patients who are at risk of falls, or who have had falls, giving advice on awareness and prevention of falls.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Back Care Awareness Week and World Osteoporosis Day.
Read more...Our next Third Sector Health Hub will take place on Thursday 10 October at Academy Medical Centre between 10.30am – 12 noon. These events are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat.
Read more...Details of flu clinic times for Academy Medical Centre patients at Whitehills Health & Community Care Centre (you will not be able to get your vaccine at Academy Medical Centre this year).
Read more...Academy Medical Centre has now introduced an Online Appointment Service. The first available appointments to book online will be chronic disease appointments, smear appointments, and physiotherapy appointments.
Read more...Our next Third Sector Health Hub will take place tomorrow (12 September) at Academy Medical Centre between 10.30am – 12 noon. These events are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat.
Read more...There are changes to vaccinations this year - adults will get their vaccinations in Whitehills Health & Community Care Centre.
Read more...Find out why any requests for medications to avert feelings of anxiety during flights will be declined by our GPs.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features Self-Care Awareness Month, National Dementia Carers' Day and World Alzheimer's Day.
Read more...People from across the region are being encouraged to share their views on NHS Tayside’s Transforming Tayside plans. The three-year Transforming Tayside 2019-2022 plan sets out key programmes which will deliver important service changes for the people of Tayside and North East Fife.
Read more...Please note the Practice will be closed from 12:30pm on Wednesday 21 August 2019 for training and staff development.
Read more...We are holding a Third Sector Health Hub on Thursday 8 August between 10.30am – 12 noon. Health Hubs are open to anyone to attend, regardless of which medical practice you are registered with. No booking required, just come down for information or a chat.
Read more...You may be able to have your hearing tested without seeing a GP. Find out if you qualify to self refer and how to do it.
Read more...Has your doctor referred you for an x-ray? An open access service is available at various locations (no appointment is required).
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of health and wellbeing campaigns. This month features sexual health and "breastfeeding is best".
Read more...The surgery will be closed on Monday 22 July in line with the public holidays for GP practices across Tayside. We will be open as usual from 8am on Tuesday 23 July.
Read more...Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of some of the health and wellbeing campaigns running nationally and worldwide. This month features 'Talk To Us', the Samaritans annual awareness-raising campaign, and World Hepatitis Day.
Read more...An end of month update, including news on staff changes, monies raised at the recent Cake & Candy Stall run by our Patient Participation Group, the date of our next Third Sector Health Hub, plus forthcoming Angus Arthritis & Diabetes Forum meetings.
Read more...If you have had a cancer diagnosis, whatever stage you are in your cancer journey, Move More ANGUSalive is here to support you to get and stay active.
Read more...We are celebrating the achievements of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group in National Patient Participation Awareness Week, along with other national health and wellbeing campaigns. Patient Participation Awareness Week aims to highlight the importance of patient participation in achieving excellence in care for all patients.
Read more...The Kirriemuir Meeting Centre is now open, and offers ongoing warm and friendly expert support to people and families affected by dementia.
Read more...We are holding a Third Sector Health Hub at Academy Medical Centre, Academy Street, Forfar, DD8 2HA this Thursday, 13 June, between 10.30am – 12 noon.
Read more...We are seeking a full-time Nurse Practitioner to join our team. The closing date for applications is 14 June 2019.
Read more...Patients may claim travel expenses for admission to hospital or attendance at an out-patient appointment if they or their guardian are in receipt of relevant benefits or allowances. Find out who qualifies and how to claim.
Read more...Please note the Practice will be closed all day on Monday 27 May 2019. We will also be closed from 12:30pm on Wednesday 5 June 2019 for training and staff development.
Read more...We are delighted to announce that Dr James Denholm joined our team at the end of April. Following a short period of induction and orientation Dr Denholm will be responsible for his own list of patients as from 20 May 2019.
Read more...The Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group are holding a Cake & Candy stall at Academy Medical Centre on Thursday 13 June 2019, from 10:30am to 12 noon.
Read more...POWWOWs are workshops on wellbeing and they are running at Academy Medical Centre during May. Come together to share knowledge and experience about a particular area of wellbeing, with a focus on tips, ideas and practical steps that can be taken to improve wellbeing in the chosen area.
Read more...Did you know we offer patients who are experiencing joint problems access to a fast access Physiotherapy Clinic?
Read more...The latest quarterly practice newsletter is now available. The Spring issue includes information about our nurse practitioner service, surgery pod, and changes to repeat prescriptions.
Read more...As from 1 May 2019 our practice list is now open to accept new patients for registration.
Read more...We are seeking to recruit a part-time, preferably experienced, medical secretary to work 12 hours per week over 3 days. The closing date for applications is Friday 10 May 2019.
Read more...This is an evaluation based on the Health Psychology work in the practice. Hannah and Alyssa worked with us for 18 months embedding behavioural psychology work into the running of our teams as part of our new models of care service.
Read more...GP practices have a new system for patients receiving long term repeat medication. The new system involves prescriptions lasting 24, 48 or 56 weeks and will allow you to collect your medication every four or eight weeks directly from your pharmacy. This will mean you do not need to place an order with the practice.
Read more...Notes of the Meeting of the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group held on Tuesday 12th March 2019 are now available.
Read more...Ashley McGregor from Voluntary Action Angus is a community Development Worker who has taken referrals from Healthcare staff in the practice to offer individual, one to one advice and provide any non-medical support they may benefit from. This is available for anyone who could benefit, including people who's health is affected by social and environmental issues which cannot be dealt with by only a medical response, which can be called Social Prescribing.
Read more...Details of when the practice will be closed for public holidays and protected learning days in 2019.
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We are one of the largest GP practices in Tayside, Scotland, with approximately 10,000 patients on our list.
The surgery is open Monday to Friday from 8am - 6pm (except public holidays).