Birchington Medical Centre

12/11/2025

What is Gastric Cancer?

Also known as stomach cancer, common symptoms include unexplained weight loss, stomach pain, difficulty swallowing and nausea. It is important to get any symptoms you may have checked by a doctor as soon as possible.

Find out more ➡ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/stomach-cancer/

10/11/2025

💭🤔Think pharmacy first!

Your pharmacist can now provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions, without you seeing a GP.

📌Sore throat.
📌Earache.
📌Sinusitis.
📌Infected insect bites.
📌Impetigo.
📌Shingles.
📌Water infection.

Just visit your local pharmacy instead of making a doctors appointment.

➡ nhs.uk/thinkpharmacyfirst

07/11/2025

Did you know, you don't always need to see a GP or visit an emergency department to get the medical help you need.

📞Call 111 or visit your local pharmacist for a range of guidance and help.

Don't want to pick up the phone?
➡ Visit nhs.11.uk for online help

05/11/2025

Notice to Patients – Staff Sickness
We are currently experiencing higher than usual staff sickness within the practice. This may mean longer waiting times on the phones, fewer available appointments, and some delays in our usual services.
Please bear with us during this time – we are doing our best to maintain care and support for all our patients. Your understanding and patience are very much appreciated.

05/11/2025

Movember is on a bold mission to change the face of men's health. Men will die on average 4.9 years earlier than women and for reasons that are largely preventable, which means that it doesn’t have to be that way.

United, they want to help stop men dying too young.

Find out more about Movember and their campaign for better men's health here ➡

Unite to take on mental health, su***de, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

04/11/2025

04/11/2025

We love hearing from our patients! 💬 Your feedback - good or bad - helps us improve the care we provide. Share your thoughts using the link below 👇

https://www.birchingtonmc.nhs.uk/feedback-and-complaints-index

02/11/2025

If you catch flu and you have a certain long term health condition, you are at a much higher risk of being seriously ill or hospitalised. 🤧

Give yourself the best protection with the flu vaccine.

Check your eligibility and book now ➡ nhs.uk/book-flu or give us a ring 📞

30/10/2025

Did you know you can view your test results in the NHS App?

📲 You can see recent test results that have been added to your online GP health record, without having to phone your GP practice.

Find out more ➡ www.nhs.uk/nhs-app

23/10/2025

Need medical advice or care this half term?
You don't always need to see a GP or visit an emergency department to get the medical help you need.

☎️ Call 111 or visit your local pharmacist for a range of guidance and help.

Don't want to pick up the phone? 📲 Visit nhs.111.uk for online help

22/10/2025

Norovirus is a stomach bug that causes diarrhoea and vomiting.

Cases of norovirus are higher than normal at the moment. Despite being known as a 'winter bug', it can spread all year round.

Treating it at home is usually the best remedy, find out how ➡️ http://nhs.uk/norovirus

22/10/2025

Notice to Patients – Staff Sickness

We are currently experiencing higher than usual staff sickness within the practice. This may mean longer waiting times on the phones, fewer available appointments, and some delays in our usual services.

Please bear with us during this time – we are doing our best to maintain care and support for all our patients. Your understanding and patience are very much appreciated.