The Rycote Practice

02/04/2026

02/04/2026

April is Stress Awareness Month
For more information & resources please visit:
www.stress.org.uk/stress-awareness-month-2026/

01/04/2026

From 24 March, the NHS Cervical Screening Programme will start sending results requiring referral to colposcopy available through the NHS App.

This change follows the introduction of digital invitations, reminders and some results in 2025 and comprehensive user research which has demonstrated strong support for receiving screening results digitally.

Digital-first communications first appear as an NHS App notification. For results requiring referral to colposcopy, if the NHS App message isn’t read within 24 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe. For all other communications, if the NHS App message isn’t read within 72 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe. Some participants may also receive an SMS notification.

For more information about registering with the NHS App please visit the NHS App page on our website:

https://www.therycotepractice.co.uk/clinics-and-services/nhs-app/

01/04/2026

April is Stress Awareness Month

30/03/2026

26/03/2026

Social Prescribing Day - 26th March 2026

WHAT IS SOCIAL PRESCRIBING?
At the Rycote Practice Social Prescribers are known as The Patient Support Team.

Many things that affect our health cannot be treated by doctors or medicine alone, like loneliness, isolation or stress due to problems with debt or housing. Our Patient Support Team connects people to non-medical support to address these
issues and other unmet needs. This could involve a Social Prescribing Link Worker or an equivalent role:

💊 Helping someone who is isolated to join a befriending group, an art class or a community gardening project, based on what matters to them.
💊 Connecting someone struggling with financial stress to a service that helps with managing debt or claiming benefits.
💊 Working with someone with high blood pressure to take up a form of exercise that they’re comfortable with.

Patient Support involves understanding the complexities of people’s lives and the inequalities they may face. It can help change the circumstances that make people unwell, and empower people to manage existing health problems. It can help people to connect and to grow in confidence.

21/03/2026

World Down Syndrome Day - 21 March 2026

Wearing Lots of Socks on World Down Syndrome Day gets your friends, colleagues and classmates talking!
Being asked why you’re wearing is the perfect opportunity to explain: ‘I’m wearing them to raise awareness of Down’s syndrome.’



https://www.facebook.com/DownsSyndromeAssociation/

20/03/2026

www.worldoralhealthday.org

18/03/2026

Spring Covid Boosters

COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions. For these reasons, people aged 75 years and over (including those who turn 75 by the end of June), those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system are being offered a spring dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

The Rycote Practice are running vaccination clinics on the following dates:
Saturday 18th April 08:30 – 13:30
Saturday 25th April 08:30 – 13:30

Please book online when you receive your text message, using the link provided. Alternatively, you can call the practice after 09:30 to arrange your appointment. If you do not wish to have the Covid booster, please let us know so that we can update your medical record to reflect this.