Tylorstown Group Practice / Ynyshir Medical Centre

27/08/2025

🦠💉 Protect Your Child This Winter – Get the Fluenz Nasal Spray!

📍 Tylorstown Group Practice
Last year, 42 out of 103 eligible children received their free flu vaccine – that’s just 41.2%.

This year, we’re aiming higher: Let’s reach 75%! 💪

The Fluenz nasal spray is:
✅ Quick and painless
✅ Free for eligible children
✅ Helps protect your child and those around them

Who’s eligible?
Children aged 2 to 3 years, and those in at-risk groups aged 6 months to 17 years.

📅 Appointments available from 22nd September 2025
📞 Call us now to book: 01443 730169

Let’s keep our little ones safe and healthy this winter.

27/08/2025

Annual Patient Questionnaire.
It's that time of year again where we ask for your feedback on how we are doing. We would be very grateful if you could spare a little time to complete the below questionnaire for us.
Please follow the below links.
Thank you.

English version:

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Welsh version:

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19/08/2025

🌟 Take Control of Your Diabetes Journey! 🌟

Are you living with Type 2 Diabetes or caring for someone who is? Join our Education Programme for Patients (EPP) courses designed to empower you with the knowledge, confidence, and support to manage your condition and improve your wellbeing.

🩺 EPP Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management Programme (DSMP)
📅 Duration: 6 weeks
🕒 Sessions: 2.5 hours each
💬 Learn practical skills to manage your diabetes, improve your lifestyle, and connect with others who understand your journey.

🦶 STANCE Diabetic Footcare Programme
📅 Duration: 1 session (1hr 45min)
🦶 Focused on foot health for people with diabetes — learn how to prevent complications and keep your feet healthy and safe.

💻 All sessions are delivered virtually, led by trained tutors who have lived experience with long-term health conditions.

✅ Open to anyone aged 18+
📲 Register now via our self-referral form: or call the WISE team on 01685 351451

🌟 Cymerwch Reolaeth o’ch Taith gyda Diabetes! 🌟

Ydych chi’n byw gyda Diabetes Math 2 neu’n gofalu am rywun sydd? Ymunwch â’n Cwrs Rhaglen Addysg i Gleifion (EPP) wedi’i gynllunio i’ch grymuso gyda gwybodaeth, hyder, a chefnogaeth i reoli’ch cyflwr ac i wella’ch llesiant.

🩺 Rhaglen Hunangymorth Diabetes Math 2 (DSMP) 📅 Hyd: 6 wythnos
🕒 Sesiynau: 2.5 awr yr un
💬 Dysgwch sgiliau ymarferol i reoli’ch diabetes, gwella’ch ffordd o fyw, a chysylltu ag eraill sy’n deall eich taith.

🦶 Rhaglen Gofal Traed Diabetes STANCE
📅 Hyd: 1 sesiwn (1 awr 45 munud)
🦶 Canolbwyntio ar iechyd traed i bobl gyda diabetes — dysgwch sut i atal cymhlethdodau a chadw’ch traed yn iach ac yn ddiogel.

💻 Mae’r holl sesiynau’n cael eu cyflwyno’n rhithwir, dan arweiniad tiwtoriaid hyfforddedig sydd â phrofiad byw o gyflyrau iechyd hirdymor.

✅ Ar gael i unrhyw un 18+ oed
📲 Cofrestrwch nawr drwy ein ffurflen hunangyfeirio: neu ffoniwch dîm WISE ar 01685 351451

19/08/2025

12/08/2025

🛡 FLU ISN’T “JUST A COLD”
If you’re under 65 and have a long-term health condition, flu can hit you harder – and faster.
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Why flu is dangerous for at-risk people
• Asthma or lung problems → flu can trigger severe attacks or pneumonia
• Diabetes → flu makes it harder to control blood sugar, raising complication risks
• Heart disease → flu increases the chance of heart attacks and strokes
• Weakened immune system → harder to fight infection, leading to longer recovery
• Pregnancy → flu can cause serious illness for you and your baby
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Even healthy-looking people with long-term conditions can end up in hospital with flu.
Every winter, thousands of under-65 at-risk patients are admitted – many needing intensive care.
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Your best protection?
The free NHS flu jab.
• Quick, safe, and effective
• Protects you and those around you
• Available at your GP surgery
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💬 “I thought I’d be fine – but I was in hospital for 6 days. Never skipping the jab again.” – Patient with asthma, aged 42
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📅 Book now: 01443 730 169
🏥 Appointments available to book from the 1st of October 2025.

12/08/2025

Here is some data that illustrates some of the work we did in June & July 2025.

10/08/2025

Flu Season Ahead.

🦠💉 Protect Your Child This Winter – Get the Fluenz Nasal Spray!
📍 Tylorstown Group Practice

Last year, 42 out of 103 eligible children received their free flu vaccine – that’s just 41.2%.
This year, we’re aiming higher: Let’s reach 75%! 💪

The Fluenz nasal spray is:
✅ Quick and painless
✅ Free for eligible children
✅ Helps protect your child and those around them

Who’s eligible?
Children aged 2 to 3 years, and those in at-risk groups aged 6 months to 17 years.

📅 Appointments available from the 22nd of September 2025
📞 Call us now to book: 01443 730 169

Let’s keep our little ones safe and healthy this winter.

09/08/2025

Get vaccinated @ the Surgery!

Please support our flu clinics this year and get vaccinated with us if you are eligible.
Why?
Like all other GP Surgeries, we rely on funding from each flu jab we give to help cover running costs and to keep the practice viable, sustainable and allows us to maintain services. This is even more important currently due to the lack of funding and investment by Welsh Government.

Every single flu jab you have elsewhere means loss of funding for your GP surgery, which puts us even more at risk. You might be told by other providers that they are giving flu jabs to help ease your GP's workload - this is more than a little disingenuous - we are more than capable of administering thousands of flu jabs with military precision each year as we have been doing for decades. Therefore please support your local surgery by having your flu jab with us.

We know that other providers like pharmacies and supermarkets offer flu jabs to patients and there is nothing wrong in deciding to have your vaccine in this way. We will be notified and it will be recorded in your medical records.

Ultimately having your flu jab with us, you are ensuring that crucial resources stay with your GP surgery to enable us to improve our services and remain sustainable.

06/08/2025

💉 Protect Yourself This Winter – Get the Flu Vaccine!

Last year Tylorstown Group Practice seen
849 patients over 65 years of age receive their FREE Flu vaccine – that’s just 71.8%.
497 patients under 65 in clinical risk groups receive their FREE Flu vaccine – that’s just 46.4%

This year, we’re aiming higher: Let’s reach 75%! 💪

The Flu Vaccine is:
✅ Quick and painless
✅ Free for eligible patients
✅ Helps protect you and those around you

Who’s eligible?
All adults aged 65 or older
People aged 6 months to 64 in clinical risk groups, including those with:
• Chronic respiratory disease (e.g. asthma requiring steroids or COPD)
• Heart, kidney (stage 3+), liver disease
• Diabetes
• Neurological conditions (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone, epilepsy)
• Learning disabilities, severe mental illness
• Asplenia or spleen dysfunction
• Immunosuppression from disease or treatment (e.g. HIV, cancer, medications)
• Class III obesity (BMI ≥ 40, aged 16+)
Pregnant women at any stage of pregnancy
Carers (unpaid or domiciliary) caring for someone whose health or welfare would be at risk if the carer became ill—includes those receiving Carer's Allowance and voluntary sector carers
Household contacts of immunocompromised individuals (those living with someone who is severely immunosuppressed)
Frontline health and social care workers and those with direct contact with patients or clients
Care home residents and staff, as well as domiciliary care staff
Adults experiencing homelessness, including rough sleepers and those in emergency or supported accommodation

📅 Appointments are available from the 1st of October 2025
📞 Call us now to book: 01443 730169

Let’s make our community safer and healthier this year by getting vaccinated.
Thank you to everyone who will be rolling up their sleeves – your decision protects not just you, but those around you.

05/08/2025

🛡️ Flu Vaccination 2025/26
Protect Yourself This Winter – Get Your Free Flu Jab

Who is eligible?
✅ Aged 65 or over
✅ Aged 6 months to 64 years with certain health conditions or risks, including:
• Chronic respiratory, heart, kidney, liver, or neurological disease
• Diabetes, epilepsy, severe mental illness, learning disability
• Immunosuppression (due to illness or treatment)
• Morbid obesity (BMI ≥ 40)
• Asplenia or spleen dysfunction
• Pregnant women
• Carers and household contacts of immunocompromised individuals
• Residents of care homes or those experiencing homelessness
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Why get vaccinated?
• Flu can be serious, especially for vulnerable groups
• The vaccine helps prevent complications and hospitalisation
• It’s safe, quick, and free
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Where?
📍 Tylorstown & Ynyshir Surgery

When?
📅 Starting 1st October 2025
🕘 Weekday appointments available
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Book your appointment today!
📞 Call: 01443 730169
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💉 Let’s keep our community healthy this winter.
Get your flu jab – protect yourself and others.