Edlesborough and Pitstone Village Surgeries

30/09/2025

GP Contract Changes being introduced 01-Oct-25

There are some small changes that are being introduced as part of the GP Contract Change 01-Oct-25 these are explained on our website

https://florey.accurx.com/p/K82079 Quote / Testimonial: CONSULTATION (updated 16-Jun-2025) As part of our Total Triage solution we have deployed accurx scribe which is a powerful tool which will…

29/09/2025

There has been a lot of coverage regarding the use of paracetomol during pregnancy. Detailed here is the NHS guidance.

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/paracetamol-for-adults/pregnancy-breastfeeding-and-fertility-while-taking-paracetamol-for-adults/?

NHS medicines information on paracetamol and whether you can take it while pregnant or breastfeeding.

23/09/2025

You And Your General Practice effective 01-Oct-25.

This guide tells our patients what to expect from your general practice (GP) and how you can help them, so you get the best from the National Health Service (NHS).

Please be aware the information in the “You and Your General Practice” document is subject to national review.

The practice are taking steps to deliver your GP care in line with the document, subject to available staffing, equipment, software and other physical, legal, contractual and safety constraints.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/you-and-your-general-practice-english/

This information is also available via our website https://www.edlesboroughsurgery.co.uk/2025/09/23/you-and-your-general-practice/

Please be aware the information in the “You and Your General Practice” document is subject to national review and becomes effective 01-October-2025. The practice are taking steps to deliver your GP…

22/09/2025

PATIENT INFORMATION: UK Mobile Networks are switching off 2G & 3G

The 2G and 3G mobile networks are gradually being switched off over the next few years. Here’s what this means for you as a customer.

17/09/2025

Thursday 17-Sept-25 Practice Learning Time (PLT)

As a reminder both Edlesborough & Pitstone Surgeries will close at 12:00. Both surgeries will reopen as normal Friday morning

15/09/2025

OCTOBER is Quit Smoking Month

'NHS: Better Health - Let's do this' have put together a comprehensive program of resources to help you quit smoking.

The campaign is called "Stoptober!" and all the resources that you require are contained within the website including the quit journey, creation of a personal quit plan, helping others, the benefits & free NHS Quit Smoking APP.

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.

15/09/2025

UPDATE: Power Restored at 14:30
PITSTONE SURGERY Power Outage 15-Sept-25

A power outage affecting the surgery was notified to us by UK Power Networks at 13:40.

Patients should attend their appointment(s) as planned.

The outage impacts our ability to answer telephone calls too hence, please bear with us and only call if you have an acute issue. Thank you

We will update this message when the issue has been resolved

08/09/2025

📣Patient triage update 📣

In the last 1 month we have triaged on average 1,802 medical enquiries.

53% were allocated face to face appointments (946 appointments)

16% were allocated telephone appointments (285 phone calls)

9% were given advice

6% were signposted to other local services (e.g pharmacies/ A&E)

5% were given prescriptions only

The remaining % were dealt with in an admin capacity

98.5% of the medical triages were seen, actioned and completed within 1 hour of patient submission

99.3% of admin triages were completed in 24 hours of patient submission

We have >20 routine doctor face to face appointments available within 2 weeks, and >65 routine phone consultations with doctors.

We are always looking to improve but over the last year of triage we really have seen huge improvements in speed of access to our team.

A big thank you to all our team for making this possible on a daily basis 😁👍🏻🎉👩🏼‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️

02/09/2025

ADVANCE NOTIFICATION Tuesday 09-Sept-25 Pitstone (Village Health Centre) Surgery

Our telephone connections are being upgraded to digital telephony. The engineers are due to visit during the morning hence, there maybe disruptions to our systems for which we apologise in advance.

Edlesborough Surgery is unaffected

28/08/2025

Has anyone lost their Teddy? Being kept safe at Pitstone village health centre reception

26/08/2025

26-AUG NHS APP Appointments Future & Past

We are aware of an issue where Future & Past appointments are NOT showing on the NHS APP. We have escalated this to the NHS APP to understand root cause.

Phlebotomy Appointments are correctly showing in the NHS APP.

Appointment Reminders are UNAFFECTED by this issue

20/08/2025

REMINDER "National Data OPT-OUT" of sharing Health Records

For awareness, we have contacted a relatively small cohort of our patients to ask them to consider changing their status to "National Data OPT-IN".

Why is this important? NHS England are driving programs, Segmentation is one, where in order to produce accurate results it requires our patients to OPT-IN to Research & Healthcare Planning.

These programs benefit our patients in providing better insights to their care.

Many patients will be unaware of their "National Data OPT-IN/OUT" status.

Many patients will be concerned about there data being shared outside the NHS Framework.

By patients OPTING-IN their data is shared with trusted NHS Research & Planning organisations however, it is not shared to other 3rd parties (e.g. Insurance, Marketing, etc.).

Resources / Further Information:
• “Opt out of sharing your health records” https://www.nhs.uk/.../opt-out-of-sharing-your-health.../
• “National Data Opt-Out” Service https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-data-opt-out
• “Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning” https://www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters/

Find out how data from your health records can help with research and planning, and choose if you want to share your data.