Fulwell Medical Centre

30/10/2025

20/10/2025

ONLINE CONSULTATIONS

To ensure the best, safe care for you and your family, the practice accepts non-urgent/routine online consultation requests or queries during our opening hours (8 am - 6 pm)

You can submit a non urgent request online at fulwellmedicalcentre.nhs.uk

For urgent help during opening hours, you should telephone the practice (telephone lines are open 8.30 am - 6.00 pm) or ring NHS 111.

02/09/2025

24/06/2025

Weight Loss Injections - Update

Yesterday it was announced via the media that GP practices can now prescribe weight loss injections

‼️Whilst this is true the criteria to qualify is very strict‼️

Calculations say that there will be 220,000 patients UK wide that will qualify.

📆Access to general practice is difficult and resources are limited, therefore we would like very much to avoid booking unnecessary appointments for patients that do not qualify for Mounjaro injections, as this would block access to patients that are unwell and need to be seen by a doctor.

❗️The criteria to qualify is as follows:

• A BMI of 40 or over (or 37.5 from a minority ethnic background)

AND living with FOUR of the five following conditions:

1. Hypertension (high blood pressure)

2. Sleep apnoea

3.Type 2 diabetes

4.Cardiovascular disease

5. Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol)

❗️If you do not have a BMI above 40 and four of the conditions above your GP will not be able to prescribe you Mounjaro for weight loss. (Based on the current guidance). Hence, we request that appointments are not booked for this purpose.❗️

The surgery will be conducting searches and will be contacting those patients who are eligible in due course.

17/06/2025

How to see your GP record on the NHS App

https://youtu.be/5mTR5-wuneo?list=PLnhASgDToTkv7s00VednFC82GxD2JP8Wy

07/04/2025

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) in the management of overweight and obesity

We have now received further information, from NHS England and The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), on how, and when, Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) will be available for patients.

There will be a phased approach for the rollout within primary care and initially Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) will only be available on the NHS to people with the most serious health needs.

To be prescribed Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) people must:

• Have a BMI of 40 or more, and
• Have at least four or more of the following health conditions:
• Hypertension
• Dyslipidaemia
• Obstructive sleep apnoea
• Cardiovascular disease
• Type 2 diabetes mellitus

If you require any further advice/information, please contact the practice.

20/02/2025

The telephone options have recently changed, please make sure you choose the most appropriate option.

1. Routine appointments
2. Urgent Appointments
3. Home visits
4. Prescriptions between 10am -12pm
5. Test Results after 2pm
6. To cancel an appointment
7. General Enquires