Garden City Medical Centre

17/07/2025

Did you know you can now access services like the NHS Pharmacy Contraceptive Service from the comfort of your own home?

Learn more at https://www.chemist-4-u.com/clinic/contraception?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=ssp

14/07/2025

14/07/2025

07/07/2025

Across England, access to Tirzepatide (also called Mounjaro®) medication is being phased and prioritised to ensure patients with the greatest clinical need can receive it.

Cohort 1 – will start in the summer of 2025 in response to the requirement of NICE to make this drug available in “Primary Care Settings”. GPs should not directly prescribe tirzepatide for weight loss. The ICB is in the process of commissioning community/primary care weight loss prescribing services so that GPs have somewhere to refer eligible patients in line with the NICA TA1026 and NHS England Commissioning Guidance. As soon as these are available we will update you, we are looking to implement these as soon as possible.
The FAQs describe eligibility but for clarity the national roll out set by NHS England mean access this year is only for people with at least 4 of the 5 health conditions listed below plus a BMI of at least 40 (BMI to be adjusted for ethnicity*).
The following weight-related health conditions will be used to define those who are eligible first:

- type 2 diabetes mellitus
- high blood pressure
- heart disease
- obstructive sleep apnoea (when your breathing stops and starts -while you sleep)
- abnormal blood fats (dyslipidaemia)

See below here for more information.

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity Semaglutide (Wegovy®) for the management of obesity Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity for certain pa...

24/06/2025

WEIGHT LOSS MEDICATION (Mounjaro) 💉is currently not available for NHS prescription in Bury/Greater Manchester ❌ We are receiving many requests to prescribe weight loss injections (Mounjaro) or similar. Greater Manchester ICB (the organisation responsible for overseeing NHS funding for practices in Bury) has issued instructions that this medication cannot be prescribed for weight loss ❌ The website link 🔗 below gives more information, including who may be eligible for this medication in the future 🌍 We do recognise that this is a frustrating situation for many patients and booking an appointment to speak about this will not change the outcome. The decision not to prescribe is NOT taken by the GPs / practitioners at the surgery 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ - they have to follow the guidelines in place. There are a number of our patients receiving Mounjaro (or similar) for their diabetes management - this is allowed on the NHS and will continue ✅

We also recognise that some patients are accessing prescriptions from private pharmacies or online providers 🧾 Please ensure you let your private provider know about any other medications you are taking 🙌🏼 If you are receiving Mounjaro from a private provider AND taking the oral contraceptive pill or oral HRT, please contact us and book a medication review, as the oral contraceptive (or HRT) may not be as effective.
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Information about specialist weight management services for people living in Greater Manchester.

13/06/2025

Social prescribing link workersSocial Prescribers connect people to activities, groups, and services within their community to help address practical, social, and emotional needs that impact their health and wellbeing.They support individuals with the wider determinants of health, such as loneliness...