The Brimington Surgery

21/11/2025

Have you had a message that you think might be a scam?
You can report it here https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

It doesn't have to be financial - some of our patients think they may have had a scam message asking them to update their medical records. It did not come from us.

Keep cyber safe!

National Fraud & Cyber Crime Reporting Centre

07/11/2025

Social prescribing gives you time to think about what is important to you and identify ways to improve your health and happiness.

Together we will develop an action plan and assist you to access services and activities within your community.

Your GP or Nurse can refer you.

05/11/2025

NHS care navigators are trained staff who help patients get to the most appropriate NHS service for their needs, which may not always be a GP. They act as the first point of contact, ask a few questions about a health query, and use their knowledge of the practice and local services to direct patients to the right person, such as a pharmacist, nurse, or other specialist. This helps ensure patients get the right care at the right time and frees up GP appointments for those who need them most.

04/11/2025

Did you know that local Pharmacies can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions without seeing a GP?

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

Think pharmacy first and get seen by your local community pharmacy team.

25/10/2025

Our Winter newsletter can be found here:

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02/10/2025

Yesterday we held our Macmillan Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support💚
Thank you to everyone who contributed and donated, it is very much appreciated!
We raised £95.00 plus any donations made via the QR code.

01/10/2025

Great news - we will be able to give COVID vaccinations to those eligible patients who have booked into one of our 3 flu clinics and for those eligible patients who are housebound.

PLEASE NOTE that the criteria has changed.

For Autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to:
adults aged 75 years and over
residents in care homes for older adults
individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over - this is not a straightforward area and eligibility has been reduced.

Click the link for more information

This blog post was reviewed and updated in September 2025. When autumn comes, protection from any earlier COVID-19 vaccination you may have had will be starting to wane. For those who are more likely to become seriously ill from COVID-19,

30/09/2025

As part of saving money in the NHS, the Government require us to reduce the number of SMS we send from October 1st.

IF YOU CAN, please register for the NHS App and TURN ON notifications. This means that our messages to you will come through to your phone in the same manner as an SMS (as a "push notification").

ALSO - please ensure we have your personal email. We will have to send many longer messages this way.

PLEASE DO NOT WORRY, if you do not have an email or a smart phone, we are working hard to ensure that our communication channels are as efficient and effective for you also.

26/09/2025

From 1st October 2025, the Government has said that all GP surgeries must offer unlimited routine online requests for patients from 8-6.30pm.

We have carefully discussed this, both within our practice and with other local GP surgeries. Like them, we feel that bringing in this change without extra staff or resources would be unsafe for patients and unsustainable for practices. Unfortunately, this would create very long and potentially harmful waiting lists to see your GP. These changes have been brought about without the relevant safeguards in place for patients.

Our top priority is always your safety and the quality of care you receive. We do not believe we can guarantee this under the new system as it currently stands.

Together with other local surgeries, we have written to our local NHS (ICB) to explain our concerns. This is also a national issue, and the British Medical Association (BMA) is continuing discussions with the Government to try to agree on a safer and more workable way forward.

We are keeping in close contact with our patients, our Patient Participation Group, and our practice team as this develops.

This has been a very difficult decision for us, but at the moment we feel we have no other choice.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

19/09/2025

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17/09/2025

Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week, 15th - 19th September

This Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week, we’re focusing on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) – a serious autoimmune condition that’s often misunderstood. RA isn’t just “aches and pains”. It’s chronic, it’s painful, and it can affect every part of a person’s life.
Let’s dispel the myths, raise awareness and support the millions living with RA every day.

Since the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) was founded in 2001, one of our key aims has been to increase public understanding and awareness of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as distinct from other forms of arthritis.