Milton Abbas Surgery

18/11/2025

Our phone lines are now up and running, thankyou for being patient 🙏

18/11/2025

Activity helps you mentally and physically feel better and helps to reduce stress and anxiety. Walking is a free and easy way to build more activity into our lives.

Why not make a start and join our Walking Group on a Wednesday? Please see the walking programme for November below.

If you know of someone who would be interested but doesn't have access to the internet and would like a printout of the programme, please let Reception know.

18/11/2025

Please bear with us this morning, we seem to have telephone issues . Apologies for the inconvenience

17/11/2025

17/11/2025

Did you know your health isn't just about medication or treatment?

Here at Milton Abbas Surgery, we have two Social Prescribers (Anna and Kelly) - friendly and supportive professionals who can help connect you to non-medical services that improve your wellbeing.

Whether you are feeling isolated, struggling with finances, needing a foodbank voucher, or want to find local support groups or activities, our Social Prescriber's are here to listen and guide you.

Ask at reception or speak to one of our team to be referred, and one of our Social Prescriber's will get in touch to see how they can help - because your wellbeing matters.

16/11/2025

Looking for something to do this week or some company? Why not join one of our Wellbeing Team Groups?

⭐ Our Beginners Line Dancing group is on Mondays 2.30pm - 3.30pm at the Winterborne Whitechurch Village Hall
⭐️ Walking group is on Wednesday's at 10am - please see our surgery page for the walking schedule for November
⭐️ Our next Crafting group will be on Wednesday 19th November at 12.30pm at the Milborne St Andrew Sports Club Pavilion (DT11 0JA)

Everyone is welcome and no need to book a space, just turn up on the day. Our Wellbeing Team would love to see you!

Information about any of the above groups, please see our Wellbeing Team page on our surgery website: https://www.masurgery.co.uk/wellbeing-team

16/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in joining a local singing group. It’s been wonderful to see so much enthusiasm!

Our Wellbeing Team will be gathering in the New Year to explore ideas, discuss possibilities, and look at how we can bring this group to life.

Stay tuned for updates!🎶

16/11/2025

It can be hard to keep kids active over the winter months - meet the Activators! Your child’s new favourite fitness friends.

Joe Wicks is getting kids active with 5-minute ‘Activate’ workouts alongside his new animated friends, the Activators. Green, Red, Pink, Blue, Yellow and Turquoise are making movement feel personal, playful and inclusive. 🤸🏃

Head to The Body Coach YouTube channel to work out to Activate for free 👉

Welcome to the Body Coach TV where I post weekly home workouts to help you get, stronger, healthier and happier.

15/11/2025

We would like to say a very BIG thank you to all our lovely health champions (Dotti, Jacqui & Jean) who helped out with our Surgery Coffee Morning on Tuesday this week. We couldn't have done it without you!

Thank you also to Angie Porter from Dorset Council, Isobel Shewell from the Mid Dorset Primary Care Network Occupational Team and Simon Thompson from Help & Care for their support and advice.

We will do another Surgery Coffee Morning in the near future, but in the meantime if any of you need support please just give us a call or send an email to the surgery for the attention of our Social Prescribers Anna & Kelly, and we will help in anyway we can.

And to our carers - you are all doing a fabulous job!

15/11/2025

Just in case you are shopping or visiting anywhere near an ASDA, if you are over 60 you can visit any ASDA café this winter and get soup, a roll and butter and unlimited tea or coffee for £1.

From 1st November until the end of February.

14/11/2025

The Dorset Women’s Health Survey is live until Tuesday, 25 November 2025!

If you’re a woman or girl living in Dorset, share your views and experiences of healthcare by taking part in the survey today.

Click here to take part: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DorsetWomensHealthSurvey2025.

All responses are confidential.

14/11/2025

It’s Men’s Health Month... or rather, Movember!

Men can be notoriously bad about looking after their physical and mental health – and there are some shocking statistics out there to prove it. Men die on average nearly five years earlier than women and often for reasons that are preventable.

Men need to talk more about how they feel and not feel they can’t talk to their doctor about anything that is worrying them. It’s up to all of us to support men to do this – and not just for one month a year.

👉 www.livewelldorset.co.uk/articles/better-health-for-men
LiveWell Dorset

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