Ballymoney Family Practice

07/11/2025

02/11/2025

A huge thank you to QJ MEDIA for capturing the opening of the reception and celebration of Beverley’s 40 years of service in the practice 🎥👏 We hope you enjoy this short video showcasing the hard work and time that has went into the refurbishment of the reception. We are very hopeful that the entire works will be complete within the next few weeks👷

01/11/2025

🎉 BEVERLEY MCALEESE, 40 YEARS SERVICE 🎉

1st November 1985 the GPs employed a very young Beverley Graham to work as a medical receptionist at Ballymoney Family Practice. 📞

Yesterday we opened our new reception area but what Beverley didn’t know (and we still don’t know how we all kept it a secret 🤫) was that we were celebrating her remarkable milestone as well. She was very surprised; she had the honour of cutting the ribbon 🎀 and there’s a special plaque on the wall to mark her years of service and dedication. 🖼️

She did say she’s well settled in her job 😂 (we’d like to hope so), that it’s a great place to work and that she really would be there forever with the wall plaque🥰. Beverley was presented with some beautiful gifts and there was a lovely lunch provided. 💐

Congratulations Beverley and well done on reaching this outstanding milestone 🥳

30/10/2025

🎉 Tomorrow, Friday 31st October 2025, the Health Centre main door and telephone lines will close from 12.30pm until 2.00pm to allow the staff and guests to celebrate the opening of our new reception. There’s still some bits of work to be finished but the main area is complete! Thank you to all of you for your patience during the disruption. We will show you some photos when works are fully complete 🎉

If you require a GP in an emergency during the closure please phone the main practice line and follow the instructions given ☎️

30/10/2025

🎓 Congratulations to our Senior Receptionist, Brigid, who graduated today at the Millennium Forum with Level 5 Leadership & Management Certificate. 📜

Brigid was supported by the GP Partners to complete her part-time study and she embraced every opportunity. Wishing Brigid a fantastic day celebrating with her family and friends. 🎓

21/10/2025

ℹ️ Alzheimer’s Society Virtual Dementia Information Programme ℹ️

Please see below for information for anyone caring or supporting someone with a dementia diagnosis.

11/10/2025

📮 FLU LETTERS 📮

Today we vaccinated 1300 patients and it was was a very sleek service. No more than a 5 minute wait and hardly any queues.

We have been notified from some patients that they have not received their flu letters even though they were all posted at the same time. Some patients only received letters this morning!

If you are one of these patients please don’t panic just come to our next clinic on Saturday 25th October 2025 at the same time that is on your letter and we will get you vaccinated.

Thank you to everyone who turned out today, we always enjoy our Saturday clinics when we get to have a chat with our fantastic patients.

11/10/2025

10/10/2025

🩼🩼 Tomorrow is the first of our flu/covid clinics. We envisage this to be a very busy day at the Practice.

🚘🚙 We also envisage the car park to be busy as well. We have Stephen and Thomas as your attendants tomorrow and we would kindly ask that you follow their instructions when parking so that we can ensure disabled people get priority near the entrance and those more able bodied park at the rear carpark and walk to the entrance 🚶🚶‍♀️

There has been an extension to the carpark in the last couple of years which has made a great difference to the large volume of traffic. Not everyone needs to park at the entrance as this causes obstruction. We would encourage if you can to please use this.

This is for pedestrian safety and will also ensure everyone gets vaccinated in a timely manner.

Thank you for your cooperation.

10/10/2025

"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation." – Glenn Close ☀️🗣️

Thank you to Louise, our amazing Mental Health Practitioner, for arranging a beautiful breakfast buffet for the staff on World Mental Health Day. Also we want to thank you for looking after our patients and our staff and ensuring we maintain good mental health. 💖

Pictured is Trestment Room Nurse Helen enjoying a few treats this morning 🥰

09/10/2025

🩼🩼 Any patients eligible to have the Flu Vaccine come your GP surgery this year should by now have received a letter from the practice. The categories for Flu are:
- Age: Everyone aged 65 and over.
- Children: Children aged 2 and 3
- Health Conditions: Anyone aged 6 months to under 65 wirh certain long-term health conditions.

🦠 This year the Department of Health has changed the criteria for the COVID Vaccination. Those eligible are:
- Age: Everyone aged 75 and over.
- Health: Anyone aged 18 to 74 who have a health condition or on medication that includes them as ‘Severely immunocompromised’ ( this is a very small number of our practice population)
Unfortunately we cannot deviate from the guidance provided by the Department of Health.

🗓️ If you are unable to attend the appointment date/time on uour letter please contact reception where one of the receptionists will make arrangements for an alternative.

We have approximately 7200 eligible patients for Flu and there has been a huge effort gone into making our clinics run smoothly. We appreciate patience and understanding at this busy time and rest assure everyone is doing their best to keep you safe this winter! 😊

07/10/2025

👼 October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss awareness month. Here are details of a local coffee morning in aid of Billie’s Little Angel Gowns NI 👼