Chawton Park Surgery

08/11/2025

06/11/2025

💙 CPR and Defibrillators Save Lives 💙

When 76-year-old Ian Jurd collapsed at Medstead Village Hall, his wife Jackie walked in to find their friend performing CPR. Within just 15 minutes, emergency services — including the air ambulance from Thruxton and Dr Rob Summerhayes — were on scene working to save his life.

After being stabilised at Basingstoke Hospital, Ian went on to have heart surgery and is now recovering well. He said:

“Two police cars, two ambulances and an air ambulance turned up within 15 minutes of me collapsing... I look at myself in the mirror sometimes and can’t believe I’m still here. I’m so grateful for everything that was done for me — especially the CPR.”

Inspired by his experience, Ian has helped organise a series of free, drop-in CPR and defibrillator training sessions in our local area:

🕑 Saturday 8 November, 2:00pm – St Andrew’s Church Hall, Medstead
🕧 Wednesday 12 November, 12:30pm – The Assembly Rooms, Alton
🕥 Wednesday 19 November, 10:30am – The Assembly Rooms, Alton
🕥 Saturday 22 November, 10:30am – Church of the Good Shepherd, Four Marks

📧 To reserve a space, please email ianjurd80@gmail.com

You can read more about Ian’s incredible story and why learning CPR is so important in our full article here 👉 a31pcn.co.uk/restart-a-heart-day-cpr-and-defibrillators-save-lives

There are also more free CPR sessions coming up at Alton Community Centre in the months ahead — check out their Facebook post for details:
👉 Alton Community Centre CPR Training https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1300240068815099&set=a.598217989017314

01/11/2025

💙💛 Ukrainian Social Group – Starting Wednesday 5 November 💛💙

We’re delighted to welcome the Ukrainian Social Group, meeting for the first time on Wednesday 5 November, 12:00–2:00pm at Health on the High Street (Alton Assembly Rooms).

Come along to connect with others, share experiences, and enjoy friendly conversation in a relaxed, supportive space. All Ukrainians living locally are very welcome!

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31/10/2025

Monday is our Alton coffee morning. Please come along if you are in the area and get to know the other carers☕️

27/10/2025

25/10/2025

Thank you to our wonderful team for running today’s vaccination clinic.

Thank you to our Patient Participation Group for supporting our weekend clinics during October.

Appointments are still available. Please support us by booking your vaccination with the Practice.

21/10/2025

📲 So many of you are now using the NHS App – which is fantastic! We hope you’re finding it useful for booking appointments, ordering prescriptions, and managing your health in one place.

One really helpful feature is the ability to switch on notifications within the app. Instead of receiving text messages, you’ll get updates directly through the app – saving both time and money.

💡 In 2023/24, patients with notifications switched on helped the NHS save over £1 million!

👉 Here’s how to switch on notifications:

Apple iPhone guide - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ppOd5tHH6ZU

Android guide - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=912260567526191

For more info about the benefits of NHS App notifications, read here:
🔗 https://www.england.nhs.uk/2024/05/nhs-app-messaging-saved-nhs-more-than-1-million-in-last-year/

Help us by switching on your notifications today – it makes a big difference! 💙

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18/10/2025

** Are you eligible and due your COVID and/or Flu vaccination and registered with Chawton Park Surgery?? **

The team at Chawton Park are holding a walk in clinic today Saturday 18th October 2025, up until 16:30. Simply walk in!

The eligibility criteria for the vaccinations has changed this year.

FLU vaccinations details:

✅ Pregnant women (vaccine is due to arrive in the practice towards the end of September)

✅All children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025 • Primary school-aged children (Reception to Year 6) • Secondary school-aged children (Year 7 to Year 11) • Children aged 6 months to under 18 years in clinical risk groups

From 1st October 2025:

✅Adults aged 65 years and over
✅Adults aged 18 to under 65 in clinical risk groups
✅Residents in long-stay care homes
✅Carers receiving Carer’s Allowance or main carers for elderly/disabled people
✅Close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
✅Frontline social care workers without employer occupational health cover (care home staff, domiciliary care, hospice workers, personal assistants)

COVID programme eligibility - from October 2025.

Eligibility:
✅Adults aged 75 and over
✅Immunosuppressed individuals aged 6 months and older

Please support the Surgery by having your vaccinations with us when you are invited.

Best wishes and thank you for your continued support

The team at Chawton Park Surgery

13/10/2025

Dear Patients

Unfortunately, we are experiencing significant staff sickness within our clinical team today, which is reducing our capacity to manage our workload safely. This may mean that if you contact the Practice, there could be a delay in receiving a response to your query.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this challenging time, and we thank you for your continued support.

For advice on minor ailments, your local pharmacy team may be able to help. More information can be found here: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/pharmacies/how-pharmacies-can-help/

Kind regards,
The Team at Chawton Park Surgery

Find out what services pharmacies can offer and how they can support you.

12/10/2025

In the NHS App, you can see messages from your health care providers to make sure you get a notification when you have received a new message in your inbox.

Your notification settings need to be turned on in your phone.

To do this, go to your account and select Settings.

Then select Manage Notifications.

Select go to Device Settings.

Select Allow notifications.

Once you've enabled notifications on your device, you need to reopen the NHS App.

Doing this confirms that you have registered to receive notifications.

For more information, go to nhs.uk/nhs-app.

https://youtu.be/R8otAic3xHY

In this video you can see how you can read your messages in the NHS App and manage notifications on your mobile phone to make sure you get a notification whe...