Edlesborough and Pitstone Village Surgeries

13/01/2026

Raising awareness of "Jess's Rule"

1: GP teams are encouraged to critically re-evaluate a diagnosis if a patient presents three times with the same or escalating symptoms or concerns,
2: Supports GP teams to manage patients with unclear symptoms, helping to improve quality of care and potentially saving lives by avoiding missed or delayed diagnosis of more serious conditions such as cancer or sepsis,
3: Listening carefully to a patient’s symptoms and concerns remain crucial, recognising they are an expert in their own body.

More information: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/jesss-rule-three-strikes-and-we-rethink/

13/01/2026

Reminder Thursday 15-January-26 Practice Learning Time (PLT)

Both Edlesborough & Pitstone Surgeries will close at 12:00 for PLT.

Both surgeries will reopen as normal 16-January-2026

07/01/2026

Wednesday 07-Jan Snow & Ice Edlesborough

We have salted the Edlesborough Car Park & footways please allow extra time to navigate in these icy conditions.

06/01/2026

NHS APP Booking of Phlebotomy (Blood Test) Appointments

To avoid any potential confusion please ensure that you select the location where you would like your blood test performed.

If there is anything special required for your blood test create a Medical Triage first so that it can be reviewed beforehand and any additional paperwork required created (and a self-booking link sent for you to book your appointment (i.e. do not use the NHS APP to directly book the appointment))

06/01/2026

Triage Survey Update - rejected eMail addresses

We are contacting patients who's eMail address was returned as rejected / not found to confirm their eMail address.

The message sent to our patients will include the eMail address used (from our patient record) to enable checking

If you receive a message from us please respond with your current eMail address.

Why is this important? We are starting to use eMail addresses as the default communication method for our patients (if you have the NHS APP the message will be delivered there first before defaulting to eMail)

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas and a Happy healthy 2026 to all our patients from today’s ’Christmas Crew’

22/12/2025

Christmas 2025 & New Year 2026 Bank Holiday Pharmacy Opening Hours for Buckinghamshire

The following pharmacies are planned to be open over the Xmas & New Year if you require medication.

Please check with them beforehand to ensure that they have the medication required.

22/12/2025

Please parents do watch this before triaging as we are having HUGE volumes of triages for sick children. After assessment many have viral self limiting illnesses. Obviously if you are concerned about your child we are always happy to help

When your child has a cough, cold, earache or sore throat, it can be hard to know what’s normal and when to worry. As a GP, I see children with these infecti...

22/12/2025

We are getting HUGE amounts of triages for coughs and colds please watch this video and consider if you really need assessing

It's often so hard to know when you might need to contact your GP surgery for advice about a cough or chest infection; or even pneumonia; should you just sit...

17/12/2025

We have been handed in a car key fob - if they are yours, please contact the surgery telling us something unique about it. Thank you

17/12/2025

Please be aware that the Resident doctors are on strike this week so this will affect our capacity for appointments. Please consider when you are requesting appointments if you feel it urgent that you have considered other local resources of support such as 111 or local pharmacies for advice for minor illness

16/12/2025

REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONS

During the Xmas & New Year period it is important that our patients order their Repeat Medication in good time.

Our guidance https://www.edlesboroughsurgery.co.uk/health-information/repeat-prescriptions/ explains the process & lead time (in working days) required to ensure uninterupted medication supply.

Thank you for your cooperation

We strongly advise patients to download, activate & use the NHS APP NHS App and your NHS account – NHS (www.nhs.uk) The NHS APP enables you to order your repeat medication (and perform many other…