Cranleigh Gardens Medical Centre

22/07/2025

Health and Wellbeing Coaches support individuals with long term health conditions like Hypertension to live fulfilling, active lives.
We have NHS Health and Wellbeing Coaches at the practice. They can help you look at your health and wellbeing and guide you as you overcome your challenges. Refer yourself here: https://www.sasp.co.uk/forms/view/hwc

22/07/2025

We know that lots of people feel anxious about having their cervical smear. This link has information to help - having a smear is very important to help prevent cancer - so please have a read and see how we can make it easier for you to have yours:

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14/07/2025

Woman who do not have s*x with men can get cervical cancer. Research suggests that although HPV is more easily passed on through heteros*xual in*******se, it can also be transmitted through le***an in*******se. As with other s*xually transmitted infections, HPV is passed on through body fluids. This means that oral s*x, transferring vaginal fluids on hands and fingers, or sharing s*x toys, can all be ways of being exposed to HPV. Studies involving le***an and bis*xual women found between 3% and 30% of the women in the study groups tested positive for HPV.

As well as s*xual behaviour, smoking is also a risk factor for cervical cancer. Read more here:

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07/07/2025

07/07/2025

What if I'm too embarrassed to attend my cervical screening? Will it be painful? Do I need to shave, down there?
Perhaps you have some questions about smear tests that you might not be comfortable asking yourself?
Meet Liz, a Practice Nurse based in Somerset. Liz sees hundreds of women each year and understands why some people feel nervous about attending their cervical screening.
In this video, she answers some of the questions you might be worried about asking. If you have more questions that aren't answered here, don't rely on google - please contact your practice nurse who will be happy to help.

Perhaps you've been invited to attend your first cervical screening, or maybe you've been putting it off?Meet Liz, a Practice Nurse based in Somerset. Liz se...

07/07/2025

Making health lifestyle changes can sometimes help reduce your chances of getting high blood pressure and help lower your blood pressure if it is already high

07/07/2025

Same Day Appointments

If you need to be seen the same day for an emergency appointment, please can you phone to arrange this.

We have a limited resource to manage same day appointments which involves the on-call doctor phoning the patient first. If same day access is required, we will get back to you the same day.
Please do not present at the practice asking to be seen as this will not be possible. The Same day access team must manage their finite time carefully given the increasing demand.

If you present without phoning this will lengthen the process for all involved.

30/06/2025

There are cervical smear leaflets in different languages: Cervical smear in Arabic
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aae5274a27c977e56b/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Arabic.pdf
Cervical smear in Bengalihttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aaed915d522f3e6adc/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Bengali.pdf
Cervical smear in simplified Chinese
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aa40f0b61cde27250c/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Chinese_CN.pdf
Cervical smear in Polish
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aa40f0b61c992ba4ea/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Polish.pdf
Cervical smear in Portuguese
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aaed915d522f3e6add/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Portuguese.pdf
Cervical smear in Punjabi
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aaed915d5eeecd1d18/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Punjabi.pdf
Cervical smear in Urdu
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8374aaed915d51e9aff890/Cervical_helping_you_decide_HPV_Urdu.pdf
Cervical smear in Hindi
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66fa81cb30536cb927482960/Cervical_screening_leaflet_HINDI.pdf

24/06/2025

From Monday 23rd June 2025 the national roll out of tirzepatide (Brand name Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity begins.
We anticipate a lot of demand for this BUT there is a nationally set roll-out programme which limits eligibility for many years.
Every year additional patients become eligible but for the first year only a tiny number of patients are eligible – only 0.1% of our patients have been identified as meeting the criteria for this year.
The eligibility for this year is ONLY if you have a BMI of 40 or over AND have four or more of the following health conditions:
• type 2 diabetes,
• high blood pressure,
• high cholesterol,
• sleep apnoea,
• cardiovascular disease
AND a clinician considers it appropriate treatment.
The vast majority of our patients do not currently fit these criteria and if you don’t fit the criteria we cannot offer you this medication this year. We are not allowed to prescribe outside of the set roll-out programme.
We will publicise the changes each year – but note it is a ten-year roll-out programme.
In the meantime, we recommend you book to see our health coaches – who have had great success helping patients

23/06/2025

If your first language isn't English, there are leaflets in other languages on cervical screening here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-description-in-brief

23/06/2025

If your blood pressure is too high, it puts extra strain on your blood vessels, heart and other organs. Once you know your blood pressure you can see whether it is in the healthy range.

16/06/2025

Often women are so busy it is hard to find the time for a cervical smear. The appointments only take 10-15 minutes, with the smear itself taking 2-3 minutes. Cervical smears do saves lives so book yours now if you are due or overdue. This video explains what you can expect to happen during cervical screening:

This video explains what you can expect to happen during cervical screening.For more information on cervical screening visit https://www.nhs.uk/cervical-scre...