Cleckheaton Group Practice is a GP surgery based in the heart of Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire.
12/12/2025
The surgery will be closed on the following days over the festive period:
Thursday 25th December
Friday 26th December
Thursday 1st January 2026
Please ensure that you have enough medication to last you before the surgery closes. The turn around for prescription requests is 48 hours.
If you have a medical emergency, whilst the surgery is closed, please ring 111.
If you have a life threatening emergency, please ring 999
The surgery will re-open as normal on Friday 2nd January 2026.
We would like to wish all our patients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thanks to everyone who very kindly gave us chocolates and gifts, they are very much appreciated!
08/12/2025
Our next Patient Participation Group meeting will be held on Tuesday 17th February 2026 at 11.00am. We were going to be holding one during December, however workload has increased significantly again, so it has been postponed.
Hopefully this will give people enough notice and the opportunity for anyone new who wishes to join the group.
After some further incidents of abuse this week, we have no option but to issue this notice:
Respect for Our Staff – Zero Tolerance Policy
Dear Patients,
We are proud to provide care and support to our community. Our team works hard every day to offer the best possible service to all our patients, often under challenging circumstances.
Unfortunately, we have seen a significant increase in incidents where staff have been subjected to unacceptable behaviour. This includes:
• Verbal abuse, such as shouting, swearing, or using insulting language.
• Aggressive behaviour, including banging on the reception desk, making threats, or refusing to leave the premises.
• Disrespectful messages or emails, containing rude or offensive comments.
• Intimidation or harassment, either in person or over the phone.
We do understand that being unwell or frustrated can be stressful, but abuse of any kind towards our staff will not be tolerated. Our doctors, nurses, and admin and reception team are here to help you, and everyone deserves to be treated with courtesy and respect.
If abusive behaviour occurs, we may take further action, which could include:
• Removing the patient from the practice list,
• Reporting serious incidents to the police.
We thank the vast majority of our patients who are kind, understanding, and respectful — your cooperation helps us maintain a safe and caring environment for everyone.
Thank you for your support and understanding.
Cleckheaton Group Practice
17/10/2025
We are holding another flu / covid clinic tomorrow 18th October 2025.
If you would like an appointment, please contact us.
For clarification, please see eligibility below:
Flu vaccine eligibility
The following groups are eligible to receive a flu vaccination:
From 1 September 2025:
• pregnant women
• all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025
• primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
• secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
• all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
From 1 October 2025:
• those aged 65 years and over
• those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups
• those in long-stay residential care homes
• carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or
disabled person
• close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• frontline workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home,
registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or
Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants
All frontline health care workers, including both clinical and non-clinical staff who have
contact with patients, should be offered the flu vaccine from 1 October as a vital part of their organisation’s policy for the prevention of the transmission of flu.
Social care workers directly working with people clinically vulnerable to flu should also have the flu vaccine provided by their employer. There are circumstances where frontline staff,
employed by specific social care providers without access to employer led occupational health schemes (see cohort eligibility above), can access the vaccine through the NHS free of charge
COVID-19 vaccine eligibility
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has updated its advice for the autumn 2025 COVID-19 vaccination programme, which has been accepted by Ministers.
The focus of the programme is shifting towards targeted vaccination of those at highest risk of serious disease.
For autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to:
• adults aged 75 years and over
• residents in care homes for older adults
• individuals who are immunosuppressed, aged 6 months and over
This represents a change from the autumn 2024 programme, which also included adults aged 65 to 74, all those aged 6 months and over in a clinical risk group and pregnant
women. The vaccine should usually be offered no earlier than around 6 months after the last vaccine dose. Those who are eligible can get protection from an autumn COVID-19 vaccination even
if they have not taken up a COVID-19 vaccine offer in the past.
We understand that determining having a weakened immune system (immunosuppression) may be less straight forward than the other criteria. Some of the groups eligible include:
• Organ, bone marrow or stem cell transplant patients
• Those being treated with systemic steroids for more than a month
• Those living with HIV
• Those receiving immunosuppressive or immunomodulating biological therapy,
including children who are about to receive therapy
• Those undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy
• Those requiring long-term treatment for immunosuppression
• Those with a history of haematological malignancy including chronic leukaemia,
lymphomas, and leukaemia
• Those with genetic disorders affecting the immune system
09/10/2025
FLU ELIGIBILITY
You can get the free NHS flu vaccine if you:
• are aged 65 or over (including those who will be 65 by 31 March 2026)
• have certain long-term health conditions (see below)
• 2-3 year olds
• school aged children (reception to year 11)
• are pregnant
• live in a care home
• are the main carer for an older or disabled person, or receive a carer's allowance
• live with someone who has a weakened immune system
Frontline health and social care workers can also get a flu vaccine through their employer.
The flu vaccine is recommended for people with certain long-term health conditions, including:
• conditions that affect your breathing, such as asthma (needing a steroid inhaler or tablets), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or cystic fibrosis
• heart conditions, such as coronary heart disease or heart failure
• chronic kidney disease
• liver disease, such as cirrhosis or hepatitis
• some conditions that affect your brain or nerves, such as Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy
• diabetes or Addison's disease
• a weakened immune system due to a condition such as HIV or AIDS, or due to a treatment such as chemotherapy or steroid medicine
• problems with your spleen, such as sickle cell disease, or if you've had your spleen removed
• a learning disability
• being very overweight – a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or above
Speak to your GP surgery or specialist if you have a health condition and you're not sure if you're eligible for the flu vaccine.
09/10/2025
COVID ELIGIBILITY
You can get the autumn/ winter COVID-19 vaccine if you:
• are aged 75 or over (including those who will be 75 by 31 January 2026)
• are aged 6 months to 74 years and have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment (see below)
• live in a care home for older adults
You may be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine if you have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment. This can include if you:
• have or had blood cancer, such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma
• have had an organ transplant, bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant
• have HIV
• have a genetic disorder that affects your immune system, such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
• are having or recently had chemotherapy, biological therapy or radiotherapy
• are taking steroid medicine (depending on the dose)
• are having long-term immunosuppressive treatment for a condition such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), scleroderma or psoriasis
• A full list of conditions can be found on page 35 and 36 of the Green Book
Not sure if you're eligible? This list doesn't include all eligible health conditions. Speak to your GP practice or specialist to check.
09/10/2025
Changes in COVID-19 vaccination eligibility for autumn/winter 2025/26
• Every year, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) considers who needs to be vaccinated, to help protect people from serious illness. Their advice on COVID-19 has changed because the threat from COVID-19 has changed. It has become a common milder infection for most people.
• This autumn/winter, vaccination is being offered only to people at highest risk of serious illness - older people and those who have a weakened immune system because of a health condition or treatment. This is different to previous years.
• It’s possible for you to be eligible for a flu vaccine but not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, even if you’ve had it previously.
• For autumn/winter vaccination invitations, NHS England uses information from NHS records to check who is eligible for vaccination.
• Information in these records may no longer be relevant if the health condition has resolved or the diagnosis or medicines has changed.
• The clinician at the vaccination site will check eligibility before every vaccination.
More information can be found at
NHS England » Who to contact if you have an enquiry about a vaccination invitation
04/10/2025
Our flu and Covid clinic is currently open until 4pm today. We are also open tomorrow from 8 - 4.
If you are eligible and would like a jab, please do drop in.
For flu, age is 65s and over, or pregnant ladies or immunosuppressed. Or those who have a long term condition - ie asthma, diabetes, etc.
Age group for Covid is 75 and over, and the same groups as above.
Thanks
30/09/2025
We have added some additional flu and Covid clinics on the weekend of 4th and 5th October. If you would like an appointment, please contact us, either via phone or PATCHS.
If you have already got an appointment booked for the following week, but would like to have it done earlier during the weekend dates mentioned above, please let us know and we will re-arrange it for you.
Thank you.
11/09/2025
Don't forget, we will have your flu and covid vaccination ready for you as from 1st October. Our clinics will be up and running and if you haven't yet booked an appointment, please do!
You can use our online consultation service to do this- click the PATCHS link on www.cleckheatongrouppractice.co.uk - or if you have access to Systm1, you can send us a message.
Althernatively, if you do need to ring us, please do so after 11am, when the phones should be a bit quieter.
We hope to see you soon!
15/08/2025
Flu - Covid Clinics
We would like to explain more about the booking of Flu and Covid jabs.
A link has been sent out to more than 4000 patients who are eligible for a vaccination for both Covid and Flu. A lot of patients have managed to book in successfully.
If you are having problems booking, then please drop an email into the surgery at www.cleckheaton.grouppractice.co.uk or use our online service PATCHS which is available on our website. Please do not ring the surgery until after lunchtime as the lines are extremely busy.
The dates for booking Flu and Covid clinics are 1st October onwards. You can book your appointment any time after that date.
If you are a housebound patient, someone will be in touch to arrange a visit for you.
If you are a pregnant lady, you can book anytime after 9th September.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who would like a nasal flu, you can also book as from 9th September.
Anyone who has any problems, please do not take it our on the staff.
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Cleckheaton Group Practice is a family GP Practice based in the heart of Cleckheaton, just behind the town hall.
Cleckheaton Group Practice was formed through the merger of two long standing Cleckheaton Practices, St John’s House Surgery and Greenside Surgery in April 2017.
We are made up of 4 GP Partners, 1 salaried GP, 2 Practice Nurses, a Trainee Nursing Associate and a Healthcare Assistant. We also have a strong non-clinical team made up of Reception, administrative and secretarial staff.
We offer placements for third year medical students through a partnership with the University of Leeds.
This page has been set up in order to try to keep patients informed about our services and information that may affect them. It is not intended to be a forum for complaints and is not to be used to request appointments, prescriptions or any other service. The Practice does not accept messages via Messenger, in order to protect patient data and confidentiality.
We are continually striving to improve our service and deliver the highest quality of care to patients and as such are always keen to receive feedback. If you do have any comments or concerns that you would like to discuss please do not hesitate to contact the Practice directly on 01274 957846. Any complaints should be put in writing to the Practice Manager, following the complaints procedure available on our website or upon request from the Practice.
