Dr Peter Kapff

COVID19

We are in the middle of the Covid19 pandemic.

This has of course had a profound effect on all our lives. I realised that I had to stop normal surgeries and work from home from the 25th March 2020. I will be available for telephone consultations and all advice, including repeat prescriptions with medication review by telephone consultation, when appropriate during normal working hours ( 9.00-18.00) every weekday until further notice. My Practice Manager Audrey Crow and Secretary Sue Goddard are also working from home and calls to the surgery will be redirected to them.

In order to keep things going for you all I will have to charge for prescriptions and telephone consultations. I do hope that you appreciate why this has become necessary and I ask for your understanding in these exceptional times.

COVID19 Testing

We have a very very limited supply of antibody tests and thus will be highly selective in those whom we agree to test. We cannot test families but we hopefully can test those whom have almost certainly  had the virus and need to check their immunity so that they can return to key roles. We will let you know if more test kits come through.

Please note that several of Dr Kapff’s fees have been revised from January 2020.  These apply to consultations, medicals, and visits, and also affect some blood tests and immunisations.

Click here for an overview of fees

A study from 2010 showed that over a quarter of those infected with HIV were unaware that they had it.  The findings concluded that a wider availability of testing was required to reduce both heterosexual and gay transmissions.

In fact, the heterosexual figure almost doubled between 2003-2007, with the overall number doubling in the past ten years.  At the end of 2010, there were an estimated 91,500 people with HIV in the UK, up from 86,500 the previous year.  The current estimation is around 100,000.

Kensington and Chelsea was the fourth highest primary care trust in England where the prevalence of diagnosed HIV infection exceeded two adults per 1,000 population, with Hammersmith and Fulham coming sixth.

Dr Valerie Delpech, Head of HIV surveillance at the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for Infections, said, “It is very worrying that so many people remain unaware of their HIV status. Wider HIV testing in high prevalence areas of the UK is urgently needed to reduce the number of undiagnosed infections.”

For a quick and discreet HIV test, please ring Kapff Medical on 0207 349 1499

Table 1. Primary care trusts in England where the prevalence of diagnosed HIV infection exceeded two adults per 1,000 population (aged 15-59 years) in 2007.

* Office for National Statistics population estimates for local/unitary authorities aggregated where appropriate to match primary care trust boundaries.
† Numbers accessing care, population estimates and diagnosed HIV prevalence in the City of London UA were 45, 5,700 and 7.89 per 1,000, and in Hackney UA were 1,087, 141,400 and 7.69 per 1,000.
‡ Numbers accessing care, population estimates and diagnosed HIV prevalence in the Sutton UA were 208, 116,000 and 1.79 per 1,000, and in Merton UA were 411, 133,700 and 3.07 per 1,000.
§ Numbers accessing care, population estimates and diagnosed HIV prevalence in the Bournemouth LA were 257, 98,500 and 2.61 per 1,000, and in Poole LA were 97, 77,800 and 1.25 per 1,000.
¶ Office for National Statistics 2006 population estimate for Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT.

For many of our patients, it is far easier to receive updates about Kapff Medical through websites such as Facebook, which are visited more regularly than our site.  Therefore, we have added ourselves as a Facebook Page, which will include basic information about the practice as well as a feed of our news page.  Please feel free to “like” us, either on Facebook or with the button to the left of this post, if you wish to be kept up to date.

Additionally, we can be found on the location-based network Foursquare, which allows people to find services (from pharmacies to restaurants) in their area.

If there are any further websites where our presence would be of use to you, please let us know in the comments section below.

TRAVELLERS’ DIARRHOEA

• Travellers’ diarrhoea is the most common illness affecting travellers
• It occurs in up to 60% of travellers

HEPATITIS A

• Hepatitis A is one of the most common travel-related vaccine preventable diseases and is endemic in many developing countries
• There are around 1.5 million cases of hepatitis A globally each year

HEPATITIS B

• One third of the global population – two billion people – have been infected with Hepatitis B5 It is one of the world’s most prevalent diseases
• An estimated 600,000 people die every year from the consequences of the disease
• It is 50-100 times more infectious than HIV

MALARIA

• Malaria kills an estimated one million people globally each year
• The UK is one of the biggest importers of malaria in Europe
• Between 1999-2008 on average 1,800 people every year returned to the UK with malaria
• Malaria is preventable, but can be fatal if left untreated

DENGUE FEVER

• There has been a dramatic increase in the incidence of the disease in the last 10 years with an estimated 50 million cases worldwide every year

RABIES

• More than 3 billion people are at risk of contracting rabies in at least 85 countries worldwide
• More than 55,000 people die of rabies each year, with around 95% of deaths occurring in Asia and Africa
• Once the signs and symptoms of rabies start to appear, there is no treatment and the disease is almost always fatal.

TYPHOID

• There are more than 21 million cases of typhoid globally each year, a high proportion of which occur in Asia, Africa and South America
• Each year an estimated 200,000 deaths occur globally from the disease

TUBERCULOSIS

• Every second someone somewhere in the world is infected with TB
• One third of the world’s population is infected with the disease
• About 1.6 million deaths occurred in 2005

Find out more about travel health at www.8weekstogo.co.uk

As holiday season approaches, Kapff Medical would like to remind you that we offer travel vaccinations for all the family, whether you are going on safari in Africa or trekking in the Andes.

Last year Britons went on over 60 million trips abroad, with longer holidays to far-flung destinations and rural areas becoming increasingly popular.  It is now more important than ever to ensure that your immunisations are up to date (and consequently, that your holiday remains stress-free!).

We are happy to accept new patients for immunisations – the injections only require a short appointment.   If you are unsure about whether you need vaccinations for your trip, please call the surgery on 0207 349 1499 for more information.

For more information about staying healthy abroad, visit the NHS Fit For Travel website.