Tarleton Group Practice

14/11/2025

🩺🔍 Worried you could be at risk of type 2 diabetes? A few changes in your family history, lifestyle or symptoms might mean a lot.
Here’s what to keep in mind:

• 👪 Family history matters – If a parent, sibling or relative has diabetes, your own risk goes up.
• 🍔 Lifestyle factors count – Being overweight, inactive or having higher waist size can all raise risk.
• 🚩 Symptoms might be subtle – Increased thirst, tiredness or needing to wee more may be signs.
• 📊 Want to know your risk? Try this tool: https://riskscore.diabetes.org.uk/start
• 📖 More reading on what to expect and why this matters: https://patient.info/diabetes/diabetes-mellitus-leaflet

It doesn’t mean diabetes is inevitable - taking action now could make a real difference. 💪

13/11/2025

❗188 missed appointments in October — and already 57 this month.

Every missed appointment is a lost opportunity for someone else who needs care. This affects our whole team, especially our nurses and HCAs, whose time and care are just as vital as anyone else’s.

If you can’t make your appointment, please let us know — even a few hours’ notice helps us offer that slot to another patient.

We’re here to help, but we can only do that if appointments are used. Please respect our team’s time and help us care for more people. 💙

12/11/2025

🥂✨ Not drinking? That’s a valid choice - and one worth celebrating.

is about creating a space where everyone feels comfortable with their own decisions, whether they drink or not.
Some people are cutting back for health, others are taking a break, and some simply don’t enjoy it - and that’s okay 💬🧃

👂 How can we be more supportive?
✔️ Respect someone’s choice without questioning it
✔️ Offer non-alcoholic options
✔️ Keep social events welcoming for everyone

Learn more from:
👉 https://alcoholchange.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/stopsobershaming
👉 https://patient.info/news-and-features/what-not-to-say-to-someone-who-doesnt-drink-alcohol
👉 https://patient.info/news-and-features/is-sobriety-becoming-trendy

Let’s help make every setting inclusive, whatever’s in your glass 💚

10/11/2025

💙 It’s Anti‑Bullying Week 2025: Power for Good! Time to stand up, speak out, and build kinder communities 🌟

Bullying can happen anywhere: in schools, workplaces, online, even in organisations up and down the ladder. It affects everyone.

Here’s how we can make a difference together:
👫 Be an ally, not a bystander - if you see something, say something
🏫 In schools: encourage safe spaces, peer support, and open dialogue
💼 In workplaces & organisations: promote respect, zero tolerance, and clear reporting structures
🗣️ Share stories, challenge harmful behaviour, and support those who feel alone

Learn more and access resources:
👉 https://anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/
👉 https://www.acas.org.uk/discrimination-and-bullying

Let’s work together for environments where everyone feels safe, respected, and valued 💪

09/11/2025

We remember and thank all those who have served and sacrificed for our country.

Their courage, dedication, and resilience will never be forgotten. ❤️

As a Veteran Accredited Practice, we are proud to support our Armed Forces community — past and present. We are committed to providing understanding, compassionate care and helping ensure veterans and their families receive the support they deserve. 🇬🇧

Let us know if you have served so we can get you all the help you need.

Go to: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/armed-forces-community/

06/10/2025

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month! 💕 Please share and help us spread this vital message 👇
October is the most important time of our year. A time for us to come together to raise awareness of breast cancer, and get checking our breasts.
We’re here to help you understand the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, so you can feel more confident in recognising any new or unusual changes in your breasts.

04/10/2025

🌈Good morning, we are looking forward to welcoming you to our weekend vaccination💉 clinic this morning. ☔️What a dreadful morning it is, 💨but the health centre will be warm and dry and welcoming 🥰 and definitely no queuing outside this year. 🙏🏻Please try to attend your appointment if possible. If you are delayed due to the weather🚗 (or a little early) don’t worry we will try our best to get you through with as short a delay as possible. 💉💉💉👩🏼‍⚕️

Thank you

02/10/2025

Good morning, day 2 of the flu and covid clinics today - please help us to enable the clinics to run smoothly by arriving no earlier than 5 minutes before your appointment. Please arrive wearing clothes that you can easily slip off your arm. If you are advised that you are not eligible for the covid vaccination by your clinician, and you feel this isn't correct please give us a call once you are home and after the clinics and we will look into this for you. We understand many people would like the covid vaccine who are no longer eligible and we understand your frustration but the delays slow the clinics down resulting in big queues. On further checking, if you are eligible we will invite you back in. we will be running clinics until the end of January.

Thank you and we are looking forward to seeing you today.

17/09/2025

Please be aware that we are experiencing technical difficulties and our clinical system is not currently operating, if you have a non urgent request please call back later this afternoon. We will update as soon as possible
Thank you

09/09/2025

🌟 Exciting News for Our Patients! 🌟

We are now taking bookings for flu and COVID-19 vaccinations for eligible patients! Eligibility will be confirmed at the clinic. We have a variety of clinics and times available, including a convenient Saturday clinic for workers or patients relying on workers to bring them.

📱 If you've received a text, please use the self-book link where possible. Alternatively, feel free to call the surgery, where our team is ready and waiting to assist you.

Stay protected and healthy this season! 💉

31/07/2025

Have your say on the future of A&E services at Southport and Ormskirk hospitals.



🗣 You can share your views by completing the questionnaire or attending one of the public events in August and September.



For all the info you need to get involved and to find out what is being proposed visit ⬇️

www.lancashireandsouthcumbria.icb.nhs.uk/sct

A public consultation has been launched asking people to share their views on where A&E services across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire should be located. Services are currently split across

23/07/2025

So disappointing to come into work again this morning to this mess- Dr Kershaw arrived early to help with the clean up. School is out, and yesterday we could tell, as we had different groups of teenagers in the gardens from lunchtime onwards. We wouldn’t have a problem with this at all if they would kindly take their rubbish home with them. It’s such a shame to ruin such a beautiful area for the whole community to enjoy. If your Children are out and about with their friends in Tarleton this summer, please can you speak to them about respecting the area they live in for their own benefit and that of the wider community. We have children throwing our benches and their bikes into the hedges and using e scooters in the car park, this concerns us for the safety of our elderly patients with restricted mobility and also the risk for the children playing in a busy car park, and the damage to staff and visitors cars.