Woodlands Surgery - Banbury

08/09/2025

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High blood pressure can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses.

High blood pressure has no symptoms, so the only way to know if you have it is to check it!

Home monitoring is an effective way to keep blood pressure under control and reduce your risk of illness.

Our vision is for everyone to know their blood pressure numbers in the same way they know their height or weight and take steps to keep them healthy, both now and in the future.

04/09/2025

02/09/2025

You matter every single day

01/09/2025

29/08/2025

Getting active in Oxfordshire:

We’d like to hear from you about your current level of activity, whether you’d like to be more active, and what might help you increase your activity.

Please follow the link below to give your feedback:

Have your say We’d like to hear from you about how active you are, whether you’d like to be more active, and what might help you move more. Your feedback will help us better understand what people in Oxfordshire need to stay active, what we are missing and how we can

28/08/2025

Free healthy living services for residents of Oxfordshire! Self-refer using the link below:

https://oxf.maximusuk.co.uk/

• Antenatal Support starts Wednesday 24th September, 6.00–7.00pm, Online. For pregnant people aged 18+ (12-34 weeks).

• Beezee Families starts Thursday 25th September, 4.00-6.00pm at The Hill Community Centre, Banbury. Also, available online. Families with children aged 4-12 years.

• HENRY’s Healthy Families starts Monday, 29th September, 9.30am-12.30pm at Rose Hill Community Centre, Oxford. Parents and carers of children aged 0-3 years.

• Beezee Youth starts Wednesday 8th October, 6.00-7.00pm, Online. For 13 to 17-year-olds.

21/08/2025

A UK-wide emergency alert test will take place on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm. This will send an audible alert to UK mobile phones.

You can opt out of emergency alerts. For example, victims of domestic abuse with a concealed phone may find it appropriate to turn off alerts.
For info on opting out use this link -

Opting out of emergency alerts

07/08/2025

In the UK, the HPV vaccine is offered to all boys and girls in year 8 (aged 12 to 13) at school.

Catch-up vaccination:
Individuals who may have missed their vaccination can still get it, usually up to the age of 25.

Specific groups:
Gay and bis*xual men, and other men who have s*x with men, are also recommended to get the vaccine.

05/08/2025

To help reduce prescription medicines waste, which is costing the NHS nationally £300m
Check your medicines at home and expiry dates – only order what you need; for more advice and support: https://staywell-bob.nhs.uk/reducing-medicines-waste/

01/08/2025

Breastfeeding is a natural, renewable food that is environmentally safe.
Breastfeeding is produced and delivered without pollution, packaging or waste and is the sustainable solution that is good for the planet and its people.
Prioritising and supporting breastfeeding will reduce the growing climate impact of artificial infant feed supply chains.
However, breastfeeding can be challenging when parents are not fully supported. WBW2025 will outline the roles and connect the actors in the Warm Chain of Support for Breastfeeding to create a breastfeeding-friendly environment together at all levels; national, health, workplace and community.
By connecting the actors working at different levels, a synergistic effort to support the parents will be in place.

25/07/2025

Hot weather and your lungs!

Hot weather can make asthma and other lung condition symptoms worse.

Find out how to stay well in hot weather

Hot weather can make asthma and other lung condition symptoms worse. Find out how to stay well in hot weather.