Birchington Medical Centre

19/12/2025

Did you know, you don't always need to see a GP or visit an emergency department to get the medical help you need.

📞Call 111 or visit your local pharmacist for a range of guidance and help.

Don't want to pick up the phone?
➡ Visit nhs.11.uk for online help

18/12/2025

17/12/2025

Have you got your repeat prescriptions sorted? 💊

With the bank holidays coming up during the festive period, you should check you have enough of any regular medicine you take.

📲 You can request a repeat prescription through the NHS App or by talking to a receptionist the the surgery.

16/12/2025

Norovirus is a stomach bug that causes diarrhoea and vomiting 🤢

It can be very unpleasant, but usually goes away in about 2 days.

If you catch it – stay home to stop the spread, rest up and have plenty of fluids. 🏠🚰

Find out more ➡️ www.nhs.uk/conditions/norovirus/

12/12/2025

IT Update
Our clinical systems are now back up and running and are working through any backlogs that this has created this morning, so please do be patient with our teams.

12/12/2025

💭🤔Think pharmacy first!

Your pharmacist can now provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions, without you seeing a GP.

📌Sore throat.
📌Earache.
📌Sinusitis.
📌Infected insect bites.
📌Impetigo.
📌Shingles.
📌Water infection.

Just visit your local pharmacy instead of making a doctors appointment.

➡ nhs.uk/thinkpharmacyfirst

12/12/2025

Please be advised, we currently have no Internet at the surgery, we have been informed this is down for all surgeries within the Kent area - we are doing everything we can to ensure that clinics continue to run

09/12/2025

💉 Haven’t had your Covid vaccine yet?

Local drop-in clinics are running in the area for eligible patients.

No appointment needed — just turn up on the day.

📍 Margate Library, Thanet’s Gateway Plus, Cecil Street, CT9 1RE
🕘 9am–5pm on 12/12/2025 and 10/01/2026

📍 Ramsgate Library, Guildford Lawn, Ramsgate, CT11 9AY
🕘 9am–5pm on 18/12/2025 and 13/01/2026

📍 Age Concern, Millmead Community Centre, Dane Valley Road, Margate, CT9 3RU
🕘 9am–5pm on 22/12/2025

08/12/2025

If you catch flu and you have a certain long term health condition, you are at a much higher risk of being seriously ill or hospitalised. 🤧

Give yourself the best protection with the flu vaccine.

Check your eligibility and book now ➡ nhs.uk/book-flu or give us a ring 📞

08/12/2025

We love hearing from our patients! 💬 Your feedback - good or bad - helps us improve the care we provide.

Share your thoughts using the link below 👇
https://www.birchingtonmc.nhs.uk/feedback-and-complaints-index

05/12/2025

You don't always need to see a GP or visit an emergency department to get the medical help you need.

☎️ Call 111 or visit your local pharmacist for a range of guidance and help.

Don't want to pick up the phone? 📲 Visit nhs.111.uk for online help