Kippax Hall Surgery

08/12/2025

It’s useful to know about local services available if you become unwell.

You can also find help, advice and tips for keeping well and staying healthy by visiting: https://orlo.uk/VoSbN

08/12/2025

05/12/2025

Think you need urgent dental care? Urgent dental appointments are now available.

Find out how to get the help you need. Go to nhs.uk/urgentdentalcare

05/12/2025

Christmas can be stressful and emotionally challenging, especially for people with dementia and their families. Here are some tips to help you prepare. 💙

🕰️ It can be helpful to try to maintain some normal routines over Christmas.

🛒 Vital services like pharmacies, shops and GPs have reduced opening hours over the Christmas period. Planning ahead ensures you have everything you might need.

🕯️ Think about how you can adapt traditions so the person with dementia can continue to participate.

🎁 The person with dementia could help with festive preparations, such as wrapping presents, sending cards or putting up decorations.

🍽️ Consider if there’s any food the person with dementia prefers, and the portion sizes they normally eat.

🎬 You could ask a friend or family member to sit with the person with dementia, listen to music or watch your favourite film.

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05/12/2025

If you are aged 40+, registered with a Leeds GP and have a cough that isn't going away.

Go to any of the Leeds NHS hospitals sites for a free walk in chest x-ray! ❤

Early detection saves lives.

03/12/2025

This week is Grief Awareness Week 💜

At some point in our lives, we will all be impacted by grief. And yet, it's something so many people don't talk about or have misconceptions of.

We wanted to start Grief Awareness Week by sharing some reminders- are there any you would add to this list?

If you need support, you're not alone

https://www.cruse.org.uk/

03/12/2025

Great, powerful night at Kippax last night with 14 brave men attending.

We're back next Monday as usual, where the brews and the conversation will be flowing.

Kippax welfare sports and social club
Ls25 7bp

Numbers for last night

Clubs: 331 👀
Total Attendance: 6,372 🔥
New Faces: 490 💥

03/12/2025

Around 1 in 3 people with dementia do not have a diagnosis.

If you're worried about yourself, or someone close to you, speak to your GP or complete this symptom checklist. https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/dementia-diagnosis/how-to-get-dementia-diagnosis/dementia-symptoms-checklist ❤

02/12/2025

02/12/2025

If you need urgent medical help but you're not sure where to go, use 111 to get assessed and directed to the right place for you.​ Call, go online or use the NHS App.

➡️ https://orlo.uk/yI8Xt

02/12/2025

This week is Grief Awareness Week, and a chance to recognise how any type of loss can affect our wellbeing.

There’s no right or wrong way to feel — grief affects everyone differently.

If you're finding things difficult, there’s support that can help.

➡️ https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/grief-bereavement-loss/

28/11/2025

12 in 100,000 people aged 85+ were admitted for flu last week.

Flu outbreaks happen every winter but this winter it’s happening earlier. There is a new variant circulating which looks particularly severe, so it is especially important to get your flu vaccine and get it as soon as possible. Find out more about vaccines and why they are important here: https://bit.ly/4nCnqcr