Overdale Medical Practice

15/10/2025

14/10/2025

Are you ready to stop smoking this Stoptober?🚭

With the right support, you have a much better chance of quitting for good! To learn more about the free Personal Quit Plan, The NHS Smokefree Facebook Group, and free NHS Quit Smoking app visit
🌐Visit https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/ready-to-quit-smoking/explore-your-support-options/

📞You can also reach out to the National Smokefree Helpline to talk to a trained adviser for advice and support.

Call 0300 123 1044 (England only).

Lines are open:
Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 4pm

13/10/2025

Today marks Secondary (Metastatic) Breast Cancer Awareness Day - so please share and spread the word. While most breast cancers don’t come back after treatment, it’s important to know the signs and symptoms in case they do.

Speak to your GP or breast care nurse if you have any new symptoms that:
✅Are new or unusual for you
✅Don't have an obvious cause
✅Don't go away

13/10/2025

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month!🩷
📲For support and more information, visit https://breastcancernow.org/

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.

07/10/2025

Join millions of people who have quit smoking with Stoptober🚭

Over 5 million adults in England still smoke.
Smoking causes 75,000 deaths a year, making it the biggest cause of preventable illness and death.

Quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health.
The good news is, if you quit smoking for 28 days, you’re five times more
likely to quit for good!😀

🤳For more information and support, visit https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/?ndclid=5A24BED7-D2F7-40DC-9BB4-EA455E447C8A

26/09/2025

Come and have a chat with the friendly Social Prescribers from Overdale Medical Practice and Park Medical Practice, about how they might be able to help you!😀

📍Borrowash Library, Victoria Avenue, Borrowash, DE72 3HE
📅Friday 14th November 2025
🕙10am-12pm

22/09/2025

Rapid Health, our online booking system is going live today. Use the link below tobook appointments and make administration requests.
The system is easy to access, no username or password needed. We encourage our patients to give it try. If you have any problems our reception team are on hand to support you and help you through the process.

To book an appointment and further information visit:
https://overdalepractice.com/rapid-health/

19/09/2025

As we prepare for the launch of Rapid Health—our new online booking system—on Monday 22nd September, we’ve identified a necessary change to our current telephone line schedule.
Rapid Health enables patients to book urgent same-day appointments throughout the entire day, which means maintaining the 'ring after 1:30pm for afternoon appointments' would disadvantage those who rely on phone access. To ensure fairness and accessibility for all patients, our telephone lines will remain open continuously during working hours.
We appreciate this update comes at short notice but hope our patients will understand the reasoning for this change. Data from other practices, already using Rapid Health, indicates that appointments scheduled within 2–4 days are in significantly higher demand compared to urgent same-day bookings. We are hopeful that appointment availability should not be greatly affected by this change to the telephones.
Kindest regards
Overdale Medical Practice Team.

18/09/2025

📣Reminder to all Overdale Medical Practice patients that our new digital self-booking system will go live on Monday 22nd September 2025.

This short video explains how you will be in control of the booking system going forward. Please note this video is not an exact replica of our website but will show you how to utilise the booking system.

☎️Please note: Rapid Health is an additional option to contact us, you can still phone or attend in person if you are not able use Rapid health.

We encourage our patients to give this new booking system a try but should you require assistance in using Rapid Health, our reception team will be more than happy to provide guidance 🙂As part of our GP contract all patients should be offered appointments in the same way regardless of how they contact us. This means our reception staff will also be using Rapid Health as triage tool. Please be patient as your call or visit may take longer.

💙Please be kind and respectful to all our staff while we learn this new booking system with you all.

❌Exclusions
There are some types of appointments that do not fit within Rapid Health and you will need to contact the surgery via telephone or in-person. These are:
📣Request for an interpreter or British Sign language (BSL) - contact the surgery to arrange these in time for your appointment.
🏠Home Visit requests
👩‍👧 Children under 16 years old - Parents or guardians can submit appointment requests. However, these requests are manually reviewed by a duty doctor and the outcome communicated to the parent/guardian.
‍👩‍⚕️Nurse Appointments (e.g Blood tests, Wound care, Vaccinations, Injections etc)
👶Post Natal and Baby Checks.
🩺Coils and Pessary fits/removal and smears
🩺Long Term condition reviews (e.g Diabetes, Respiratory, Hypertension etc)
💊Medication Reviews
👨‍⚕️Follow up appointments requested by a clinician

We hope you find the above information useful and we will continue to keep our patients updated throughout the implementation.

This is "Rapid Health - Patient Explainer" by Rapid Health on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.