Bentham Medical Practice

12/02/2026

The practice will be closed for PLT training today from 1pm.
For urgent medical problems please call 111

09/02/2026

Do you have any unwanted items that you can gift to our tombola? Or maybe you are a dab hand with a spatula and want to donated your baking?
If you are able to donate anything to raise funds for our Bentham & District Dementia Friendly Community fundraising coffee morning, please leave them for the attention of Jonathan Scott at the practice no later than Friday 13th February.

30/01/2026

The wonderful Bentham & District Dementia Friendly Community group have been preparing the posters. All we need is you and your loved ones!
Why not come along on the 14th February to our coffee morning starting at 10am.
Between 10am -12pm we will be raising funds for the Bentham and District Dementia Friendly Community through Tombola, cake sale, Raffle and more!

Do you have anything you could spare for our tombola?
Maybe you are a dab hand at baking? If so please feel free to bring any goods to the Bentham Surgery for the attention of Jonathan Scott by the 13th Feb!

We cant wait to see you x

20/01/2026

19/12/2025

We had such an amazing time at the BDDFC annual Christmas party yesterday. Thankyou to all that attended. A huge thanks to Caroline and the choir for the wonderful Christmas songs and to Jonathan, Sarah and Louise who are great at organising the community events. Mandy's food was delicious as always and we even had Lisa and (ahem) Santa involved. (All I am saying is we didn't see Santa and James in the same room!)

16/12/2025

We would like to inform our patients of a notification we have had regarding a new pilot run by NHS England. The Pilot starts in December 2025 and will end in February 2026 and aims to help maintain patient lists, allowing patients to confirm or change their home address online.
Through the pilot, roughly 10,000 patients per month with be contacted through the digital route (This is throughout the country) as follows.
1st - Contact made through the NHS app
2nd - If no response after 3 days, they will email the patient
3rd - After 8 days of no response via email, a text will be sent.
4th - If a patient does not respond after 28 days of getting the App message, a letter will be sent to the home address we have for the patient.
If patients receive an email, text or letter, but are unable to use the app to confirm their address digitally, they can call the ccc on
0300 311 22 33
Please only use this number if you have been asked to confirm your address and cannot do this digitally. When a patient fails to confirm their address the practice will be notified.
The NHS England have provided some information at the link below

We’re launching a new digital service that patients can use to confirm or change their home address directly with the NHS. This means they no longer need to ask their GP surgery to do this for them. We are testing the ‘Confirm your home address’ service with patients so they can amend the...

15/12/2025

15/12/2025

Over £60 raised for Save the Children on our Christmas Jumper day. This will be combined with our other PCN surgeries Lunesdale & Hornby GP Surgeries & Sedbergh Medical Practice

08/12/2025

If you haven't had the chance to bob in and see us about the NHS app, here is an available video from the NHS to help with set up

This is the British Sign Language (BSL) version of the NHS App - NHS Login without using Photo ID video.NHS App - Free to download from the App Store or Goog...