Village Surgery

16/10/2025

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04/10/2025

Thanks to our wonderful team for making today a success! Big shout out to Business Manager Lauren for her best organisation skills as always 📋✏️🍺🤓

04/10/2025

Flu clinic is going great!! Lots of happy patients seen 😁 please feel free to share your feedback with us!!

04/10/2025

We are excited to see you all at our flu clinic today, let’s hope the rain stays away 🤞

01/10/2025

📢 Join Stoptober – Make 2025 the Year You Quit!

This October, thousands of people across the country are taking part in Stoptober — a nationwide campaign to help smokers quit for good.

🚭 Stopping smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health, and you don’t have to do it alone. There’s a wide range of free support, advice, and tools to help you succeed.

👉 Visit: NHS Better Health – Quit Smoking

Every day without smoking is a step towards better health, more energy, and saving money.

Take the first step today — your future self will thank you.

01/10/2025

📢 Flu Vaccination Clinic – Saturday 4th October 2025

We’re looking forward to welcoming patients to our Flu Vaccination Clinic this Saturday at Village Surgery.

🌦️ Please dress appropriately for the weather as you may need to wait outside for a short time. We hope queues will be limited, but your safety and comfort are our priority.

🚗 Car Park Clinic Available
For patients who have difficulty walking, vaccinations can be administered in your car. Please let a staff member know on arrival — there will be plenty of staff around to assist you.

🏡 Housebound Patients
Home visits for housebound patients are currently being scheduled. You will be contacted over the coming weeks to arrange your vaccination.

💉 Covid Vaccinations
Please note, Covid vaccinations will NOT be administered at this clinic. Eligible patients can book their Covid vaccination separately through the national booking link.

Thank you for your cooperation and support — together we can help protect our community this winter. We look forward to seeing you!

26/09/2025

We are raising money for macmillan today at village surgery, pop down and support this great cause 🥰

11/09/2025

Temporary Change to Medicine Order Line (MOLs) Opening Hours

Due to reduced staffing capacity, we are implementing a temporary reduction to our telephone operating hours.

From Monday 15th September, the telephone service will be available 8:00am – 2:00pm (previously 8:00am – 4:00pm). Please note that all other prescription ordering channels remain unaffected.

Whilst this change will initially be a temporary measure, we are experiencing reduced capacity with increased demand, therefore we are asking for your support to encourage patients, where possible, to use digital ordering methods. This will help ensure that patients who are digitally excluded can still access the telephone lines fairly during the reduced opening hours.

www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/

www.derbyshiremol.nhs.uk

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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11/09/2025

Dear Patients - Village Surgery have published their patient newsletter. Please visit our website > News > bottom of the page :)

11/09/2025

Cervical Screening Results via NHS App

Dear Patient,

We would like to let you know about a change to how cervical screening results are being delivered.

From September 2025, normal cervical screening results (those that do not require referral to colposcopy) will be sent digitally via the NHS App.

Key points:

You will receive a notification through the NHS App when your results are available.

If you don’t have notifications switched on, you may also receive a reminder via SMS.

If the NHS App message is not read within 72 hours, or if you do not have the NHS App, a letter will be sent as a failsafe.

Abnormal results requiring colposcopy will continue to be sent by post for now.

What you can do:

Ensure you have the NHS App downloaded and notifications enabled.

If you wish to receive your results by post instead, please inform the practice.

This change is part of NHS England’s ongoing efforts to make screening invitations and results more convenient and faster.

For more information about the NHS App, please visit: www.nhs.uk/nhs-app

Kind regards,
Village Surgery Team

Download the NHS App, or open the NHS website in a web browser, to set up and log in to your NHS account. Owned and run by the NHS, your NHS account is a simple and secure way to access a range of NHS services online.

04/09/2025

Flu Campaign 2025/26

🩺 2025/26 Flu Vaccination Campaign
We are pleased to confirm details of this year’s flu vaccination programme.

Saturday Flu Clinic
📅 Date: Saturday, 4th October 2025
📍 Location: Village Surgery

This clinic is specifically for:

Patients aged 65 and over

Patients at higher risk (e.g. certain long-term conditions, weakened immune systems, or as advised by your clinician)

Booking Information
Over the next week we will be sending out a booking link to eligible patients.

You will be able to self-book into one of our available clinics using this link.

Please note: we have a limited supply of vaccinations. Once our clinics are full, they are full.

At present, we are not planning any additional clinics for either group of patients.

Nursing Home & Housebound Patients
We will be contacting vulnerable patients in nursing homes or those who are housebound separately. Arrangements will be made for these patients to be vaccinated throughout October 2025.

Why it’s important
Getting your flu vaccine helps protect you, your family, and the wider community this winter.

Thank you for your cooperation and support.