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If you think you would benefit from support that our Social Prescriber can offer you please contact the surgery.

We do not recommend patients request letters for support for blue badge applications. This is non-NHS work and as such the letter will attract a charge. You are able to get all the information you require from your medical record, which is available to you online via the NHS App or Patient Access App. You…

You may have seen or heard on the news today about the weight loss injection. Before you contact the surgery in this respect please ensure you have read who is eligible and that you do meet the criteria as it is only available for some. Who is eligible for Mounjaro from GPs right now? NHS…

The Hub of Hope is provided by national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, the Hub of Hope is the only directory of its kind in the UK that brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support services together in one place. Tens of thousands of services are listed on the…

If you are aged between 18 and 25 and leaving care, you could get free prescriptions via a Prescription Prepayment Certificate. Who is eligible? Young people who are eligible for the Prescription Prepayment Certificate must be: aged between 18 and 24, up to their 25th birthday a care leaver from a Local Authority in Buckinghamshire,…

Patients can self refer for physiotherapy direct to Practice Plus MSK Buckinghamshire without having to wait for their GP to send a referral. Please note this is strictly only for physiotherapy. For any other treatments including diagnostic imaging you will still need a GP referral.

For some time, we have been providing an unfunded post-operative wound care service for the convenience of our patients, despite the funding to provide post-operative wound care being received by the hospitals. This service has been especially valuable for those needing regular care but struggling with the travel distance to Stoke Mandeville or Milton Keynes…

You may start to see adverts about a new vaccine that is being introduced from 1st September this year. The vaccine is for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) which is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. More information regarding this can be found on the NHS website : https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv/ Everyone turning 75 years old…

You probably know about the NHS App – you might even be using it. But have you turned on your notifications? Turning on your notifications means you’ll see any messages we send you immediately, rather than having to login to the app to see if we have sent you a message. Go to your device…

Please see Stokenchurch Patients’ Participation Groups latest newsletter by following the link below

Please click on the following link to read the minutes from SPG’s meeting on 30th April 2024

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS trust has launched a new service for lung health checks. They will be contacting our patients who fit the criteria for this new service direct, so if you get a letter inviting you and have any questions, please contact them on 01296 322244.

The SPG newsletter contains lots of information including updates on initiatives and services available. Did you know that there is a Pharmacy First service that you can access for certain illnesses and obtain a prescription without the need to see a GP. There is also some helpful information and links designed to help you with…

Please click on the following link to read the minutes from SPG’s meeting on 19th March 2024

A new service called Pharmacy First is being launched from 31st January 2024. The NHS has been dealing with unprecedented demand due to a number of winter illnesses this season. The 111 service has been closed due to reaching full capacity by mid-morning in the last few weeks and at the surgery we have also…

Due to financial constraints in the local health authority, we have been asked to review some of our working practices with a view to trying to save costs where possible. One area that has been identified, due to a sharp increase in the cost, is our text messaging service. Whilst we recognise that this is…

Please note the surgery will be closed for the afternoon from 1pm for staff training (we will reopen at 8.30am the next working day) on the following dates shown below: 2024 dates: Wednesday 17th April, Tuesday 14th May, Wednesday 5th June, Wednesday 10th July, Thursday 19th September, Thursday 17th October, Wednesday 13th November, 2025 dates…