Best wishes to everyone for a safe and happy Christmas, New Year and summer holiday season.

A juvenile Blackbird like the ones just recently fledged from the nest at the surgery.

Tarawera Medical Centre will be open normal hours every day except for the statutory holidays (Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day and 2 Jan). For those patients needing repeat scripts before going away a reminder that email script requests need to be sent the day before you need them so Tuesday of the next two weeks will be the last day to send email requests if you need them before the holiday. Urgent script requests that are needed the same day will need to be phoned through to reception as usual.

Walk-in clinics as usual 8-11:30 every morning. From next year we will be expanding the Friday afternoon walk-in clinic to more afternoons from 4:30 as a lot of patients have been dropping in at this time slot already.

Have fun, stay safe and don’t forget the sunscreen.