The Chorley Surgery

23/10/2025

🍂☂️Autumn/Winter Patient Newsletter☂️ 🍂

23/10/2025

'Warm and Welcome' brought to you by the Duke Street Family Hub.
For anyone to attend and get a hot meal for FREE.

This is currently running at Duke Street Family Hub and soon will also be running from Highfield Family Hub.

18/10/2025

📌World Menopause Day📌

World Menopause Day is here. We’re raising awareness of the menopause and its associated health issues as well as the support available to improve wellbeing. Focusing this year on ‘Lifestyle Medicine’, we’re considering how nutrition, exercise, sleep and managing stress can help manage perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms.
➡️https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/menopause/things-you-can-do/

Find out what you can do to help reduce menopause and perimenopause symptoms, including how to stay healthy and how to ease hot flushes.

16/10/2025

📌National Adoption Week
📍16th - 22nd October

There’s an urgent need for adopters in the UK, with children all over searching for the loving home that will change their lives. There are many myths around adoption but provided you can offer a safe, secure home, you should be eligible to adopt. Start the journey to a make a difference to a child’s life today.
➡️https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/

Most people have the qualities to be a great parent. Adoption is the chance to change a child's life for the better.

13/10/2025

➡️OCD Awareness Week
📍12th - 18th October

OCD Awareness Week aims to break the stigma around Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This disorder affects 1 in 50 people in the UK and can become all-encompassing, causing huge stress to sufferers and their families and friends. With the right support, OCD can be managed. If you’re worried, reach out to a healthcare professional.
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THE UK'S LARGEST OCD CHARITY. We provide support and information to anybody affected by OCD. You are not alone - reach out for support today.

10/10/2025

🧠World Mental Health Day🧠
📍10th October

World Mental Health Day marks the day we recognise and raise awareness of mental health issues. This year, the theme is to fight for mental health every day. Mental health issues don’t take a day off; they affect people every single day of their lives. It’s time to ‘fight for mental health’, today and every day.
➡️https://www.mind.org.uk/get-involved/world-mental-health-day/

World Mental Health Day is on 10 October 2025. Find out how to take part and raise awareness of mental health.

08/10/2025

📌National Hygiene Week📌
📍6th - 12th October

Over 5.3 million people in the UK are facing hygiene poverty, facing the impossible choice of feeding their family or keeping them clean. Hygiene poverty isn’t just about cleanliness, though; it’s about dignity, opportunity and access to basic needs that many take for granted.

This National Hygiene Week, we’re raising awareness, and asking to end hygiene poverty for good.
➡️https://thehygienebank.com/national-hygiene-week-2025/

National Hygiene Week 6th - 12th October 2025 organised by The Hygiene Bank

07/10/2025

📌Dyspraxia Awareness Week📌
📍6th - 12th October

Dyspraxia, also known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), is a common disorder that affects movement and coordination. This year, during Dyspraxia Awareness Week, we’re focusing on ‘Dyspraxia & Ageing’. Signs can often start in childhood but will continue throughout people’s lives. Finding support can make the world of difference.
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Find out more about dyspraxia and the support available in The Brain Charity's A-Z of conditions.

06/10/2025

📌Black History Month📌

The theme for this year's Black History Month is "Standing Firm in Power and Pride". Black people have consistently exercised courage and vision throughout history and this power continues into the present, even when facing resistance. Unity is strength, this month and every month.

➡️https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/

Discover the pioneers celebrated during Black History Month 2025, highlighting achievements in literature, music, sport, business, academia, and more. Inspiring change and innovation.

04/10/2025

📌Breast Cancer Awareness Month📌

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, but early detection can improve outcomes so let’s share awareness and know the signs.

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October is the most important time of our year. A time for us all to come together and raise awareness of this devastating disease and its effects. 

03/10/2025

📌ADHD Awareness Month📌

This year, we’re talking about the ‘Many faces of ADHD’. Myths about ADHD are harmful and can perpetuate stigma and pain, so during ADHD Awareness Month, it’s the ideal time to share the facts.

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Myths about ADHD are harmful stories that perpetuate stigma and pain. 12 myths and the facts about them.

02/10/2025

🚭Stoptober🚭

Commit to quitting for 28 days this Stoptober. If you can stop smoking for this period, it significantly increases your chances of quitting permanently.

Your long-term risks of many health conditions are reduced if you quit smoking and you’ll feel the benefits within a few short days, from improved sense of smell and taste to more energy and breathing more easily. Why not give it a try?

➡️https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/

Thinking about quitting smoking, ready to stop, or struggling to stay smoke-free? Find the tools, tips, and support you need for a healthier life.