News
Updates from the practice, and the latest national news from the NHS.
From the practice
New online request system
You can now send us a request about any health problem online. We reply within 2 working days. Nothing has changed if you prefer to phone us.
Car park resurfacing in September
Our car park will be resurfaced during the week of 21 September. Parking will be limited. Please allow extra time or use the street parking on Hartley Road.
National NHS news
Published by NHS England. These links open on the NHS website.
- NHS EnglandTens of thousands of young people get vital protection from MenB in just a fortnight (opens in a new tab)Tens of thousands of young people have received the first of a life-saving double dose of the meningitis B vaccine within just 2 weeks of the NHS launching its biggest ever catch-up campaign for the virus. Since the prog...
- NHS EnglandNHS inviting 500,000 men to join major prostate cancer research programme (opens in a new tab)The NHS will begin contacting half a million men from this week inviting them to join a major research programme to improve early detection and treatment of prostate cancer. Men who have had or are living with prostate c...
- NHS EnglandHundreds of thousands of women access free morning-after pill at NHS pharmacies in first 5 months (opens in a new tab)Hundreds of thousands of women have accessed the morning-after pill at high street pharmacies in the first 5 months since the NHS made it available free-of-charge. New NHS figures show that almost 305,000 doses of the em...
- NHS EnglandThousands with MS to get “life-changing” drug on NHS to help them walk more freely (opens in a new tab)Thousands of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in England are to be offered a new ‘signal booster’ therapy on the NHS to help them walk more easily and live more independently. Fampridine is the first medicine designed...
- NHS EnglandLandmark NHS approval of cancer drugs offers new hope for children and adults with rare blood cancers (opens in a new tab)Infants and young children are among hundreds of patients set to receive new life-saving drugs for rare blood cancers. Around 200 patients a year will benefit from the 2 new cutting-edge treatments approved by NHS Englan...
- NHS EnglandCancer patients rate NHS care highly as record numbers checked and treated (opens in a new tab)Tens of thousands of cancer patients have rated the care they received from the NHS as nearly 9 out of 10, as NHS teams see and treat record numbers of people for the disease. The latest patient experience figures come a...
- NHS EnglandNHS aims to prevent one in four sepsis deaths (opens in a new tab)The NHS will aim to prevent thousands of deaths from sepsis by 2035 as part of a series of measures to improve the treatment of the deadly condition. Sepsis is a life-threatening response to an infection in the body, whi...
- NHS EnglandYoung people urged to book lifesaving meningitis jab at high street pharmacies (opens in a new tab)Hundreds of thousands of students heading to university this autumn are being urged by the NHS to book a potentially lifesaving MenB vaccine from today before term starts. Appointments to get the jab can now be booked at...