Dear Patient,

With all the enquiries and requests I have received it has become obvious how many of you require ongoing care for your acute dermatological problems, and many others with urgent consultations and surgeries pending. These are essential medical services and are endorsed as such under the current lockdown.

My greatest concern for you, my patients, is that you are forced to seek sub-optimal care in a facility such as an ER or busy outpatients department, where you will be at risk of contracting the virus on everyone’s mind. The virus outbreak at Morningside clinic being a case in point.

Having been in lockdown I have been unavailable to my more than 12 000 patients, for your urgent skin conditions and indeed the general medical conditions I have been managing for you for the past 37 years of General Practice.

I have held a meeting with my loyal and concerned staff and we have taken a decision together to reopen the practice to you all for the limited hours of 9am to 3pm daily.

We will limit bookings so that there are no more than two patients on the premises at any given time, with strict adherence to the recognised guidelines for infection control. There will be a staff of one receptionist, myself and one clinical therapist at a time.

I hope that the security of knowing that your dermatological and urgent medical needs will be attended in a safe environment will bring a little light to your horizon and keep you out of the Emergency Rooms.
 
You are welcome to purchase Hand Sanitiser (with hydrating emollients to protect the hands) from reception, we have good stock.

CALL 011 883 3116, or 060 7182178 for appointments, Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm.

Kind regards,
Dr Alastair Clark