Eastwood Primary Care Centre

24/10/2025

Story time for our younger patients at Inspire Eastwood Library

23/10/2025

It was great to visit the new local community venue – CEDARS (Community Education Dementia Awareness Resource Service) at 47 Nottingham Road, Eastwood.

Project Manager Finlay from Broxtowe Borough Council kindly invited our Patient Participation Group, along with our Practice Managers, to take a look around. Finlay gave a really informative overview of the venue, the fantastic services already making use of the space, and the exciting potential for further community growth and support.

Regular sessions currently include:
Housing: Tuesdays, 9.30am – 1pm
The Green Doctor: Energy advice every 2 weeks on Wednesdays, 9am – 1.30pm
Futures: Support with employment, CV advice, and job searching runs every 2 weeks on Wednesdays from 9am-4pm

It’s very much a work in progress, with developments on the way, including a rolling information screen in the window, leaflet stands, and heritage-inspired window stencils to celebrate our local history.

If you know of a service that would benefit from using this fantastic new space, please contact Finlay at finlay.lowe@broxtowe.gov.uk

It’s great to see such a positive community initiative taking shape in Eastwood 💙

23/10/2025

Pop-up prom today at Inspire Eastwood Library, free event open to all 😊

🎶Calling all music lovers! Tomorrow we are hosting the Pop-Up Proms from MishMash Productions. This is a free and informal classical music event, with bassoon and flute duo, Jemma Freestone and Gareth Humphreys. Join us from 2:40🎶

This coincides with our regular Places of Welcome, so feel free to pop in and have a cup of tea, whilst you listen to some music. 🍪☕

10/10/2025

09/10/2025

Great local events at Eastwood Family Hub Network - Broxtowe

08/10/2025

Do you know the signs of type 1 diabetes?

Trusted information can be found on the Diabetes UK website
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-diabetes/type-1-diabetes/symptoms

07/10/2025

Exciting News!

Your Health Notts is coming to Eastwood!

📅 Starting Tuesday 28th October
📍 Church Walk site
🕙 10am – 12 noon

✅ Quick health checks
✅ Tips for staying on top of your health and wellbeing
✅ Links to local support services

No appointment needed – just drop in.
Sessions will run every 2 weeks.

Come along, bring a friend, and take a positive step towards better health 💚

Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash

07/10/2025

Flu and COVID Vaccination Clinic Update.

We would like to apologise to all our patients who experienced long waits at our clinic on Saturday. Unfortunately, things did not run as smoothly as usual and we fell below our normal standard.

Many patients were disappointed that they weren't eligible for the COVID vaccination this year. Conversations with our clinicians took far longer than planned, which in turn caused delays for others waiting to be seen.

Please note that EPCC (and all other Primary Care surgeries) must follow NHS England's eligibility criteria - we don't decide who qualifies.
If you wish to provide feedback or make a complaint regarding the eligibility criteria, you can contact NHS England directly at:
www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/

We would also like to give a huge thank you to our dedicated team members who gave up their weekend to run the clinic. They worked tirelessly under challenging circumstances and, unfortunately, faced many instances of rudeness as staff were unable to give them the COVID vaccination, as they weren’t eligible. While patients have the right to be treated with respect and dignity in all their dealings with the NHS, we ask that our staff are treated with the same respect and consideration in return.

Eligibility for the COVID vaccine (as per NHS England):
✅ Aged 75 or over (including those who will be 75 by 31 January 2026)
✅ Aged 6 months to 74 years and have a weakened immune system due to a health condition or treatment
✅ Residents of care homes for older adults

Thank you for your understanding and continued support💙

Photo by Malcolm Broström on Unsplash

03/10/2025

New Resource for Parents and Families.

The Best Start in Life Parent Hub – your one-stop place for advice and support from pregnancy to childcare, right through to starting school.

The Best Start in Life parent hub

02/10/2025

Flu and COVID Vaccines

We now only have a few appointments for our Saturday clinics but lots of availability on our Thursday and Friday daytime clinics!

We are offering flu jabs for:
Everyone aged 65 and over
Anyone with a chronic health condition
Close contacts of people at risk
Carers
Pregnant women

For children:
School-age children will usually get theirs at school, but if your child has a medical condition putting them at risk, they can have their jab at the surgery sooner.
And children aged 2–4 years can get the nasal flu spray at the surgery.

We also have COVID jabs available for:
Patients aged 75 and over
Residents in care homes for older adults
Patients who are immunosuppressed (aged 6 months+)

Our clinic times:
Thursdays and Fridays throughout October
Saturday clinics on October 5th and November 2nd from 9am until 3pm

SUPPORT YOUR SURGERY
The funding our practice receives for delivering this vaccination programme helps us to continue offering a free GP service.
Getting vaccinated through your GP surgery means you are helping us support all of our patients.

Please give us a call to book your appointment or call into surgery.

Let’s keep our community protected this winter 💙

Illustration by The Creative Idea on Unsplash

02/10/2025

Great News for Unpaid Carers!

This month, there are FREE online wellbeing sessions designed especially for unpaid carers by Carers Federation 💙

If you are interested please contact carershubinfo@carersfederation.co.uk or call 0808 802 1777

From October we have a selection of online session being hosted by Rachel Jackson which are free to attend!

From mindfulness to boosting self esteem and practicing self care the sessions focus on overall wellbeing.

Spaces are limited so if you are interested in any of the sessions contact us at carershubinfo@carersfederation.co.uk or call 08088021777