Golborne Surgery

06/10/2025

25/09/2025

🧦 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 🧦

SSP Health GP practices across Wigan are running a ‘Winter Sock Appeal’ throughout October to support homeless people across Wigan this winter.

🧦 All sizes of socks are required - 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲!

👇 Socks can be dropped off at any of the below GP surgeries:

📌 Ashton Medical Centre
📌 Braithwaite Road Surgery
📌 Bryn Street Surgery
📌 Claire House Surgery
📌 Golborne Surgery
📌 Ince Surgery
📌 Lowton Surgery / Platt Bridge Medical Centre
📌 Marsh Green Medical Practice

The Brick are an anti-poverty charity and are always in need of kind donations.

👇 If you are able to, please also consider donating any of the below items which we can drop off on your behalf:

🧼 Toiletries
🍖 Tinned meat & fish
🍪 Biscuits
🥣 Cereal
🫖 Tea & coffee

All donations will be given directly to The Brick once our appeal has finished for them to distribute over the winter months.

17/07/2025

Did you know you can now access services like the NHS Pharmacy Contraceptive Service from the comfort of your own home?

Learn more at https://www.chemist-4-u.com/clinic/contraception?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=ssp

07/07/2025

Across England, access to Tirzepatide (also called Mounjaro®) medication is being phased and prioritised to ensure patients with the greatest clinical need can receive it.

Cohort 1 – will start in the summer of 2025 in response to the requirement of NICE to make this drug available in “Primary Care Settings”. GPs should not directly prescribe tirzepatide for weight loss. The ICB is in the process of commissioning community/primary care weight loss prescribing services so that GPs have somewhere to refer eligible patients in line with the NICA TA1026 and NHS England Commissioning Guidance. As soon as these are available we will update you, we are looking to implement these as soon as possible.
The FAQs describe eligibility but for clarity the national roll out set by NHS England mean access this year is only for people with at least 4 of the 5 health conditions listed below plus a BMI of at least 40 (BMI to be adjusted for ethnicity*).
The following weight-related health conditions will be used to define those who are eligible first:

- type 2 diabetes mellitus
- high blood pressure
- heart disease
- obstructive sleep apnoea (when your breathing stops and starts -while you sleep)
- abnormal blood fats (dyslipidaemia)

See below here for more information.

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity Semaglutide (Wegovy®) for the management of obesity Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity for certain pa...

27/06/2025

https://bewellwigan.org/health-and-wellbeing-open-day/

23/05/2025

Please come and join us for a health, wellbeing and mental health event organised by our LiGA primary care network.



When - Wednesday 04/06/25 13:00pm To 16:30pm

Where - Join us at Kidglove house, Kid glove road, Golborne, WA3 3GS



This will give an opportunity to meet a number of the services available to support you and the local community. Attending services include:

- Benefits Advisors From Income maximisation team

- Wigan Family Welfare

- Health First

- Be Well Smoking Advice

- Pensioners Link

- Armed Forces Veterans

- National institute for health and care research

- Patient Participation Groups

- Also Other Services

28/03/2025

Use 111 online to get assessed and directed to the right place for you, like a consultation with a pharmacist.

➡️ http://111.nhs.uk

28/03/2025

If something in your body doesn’t feel right, don’t carry the worry of cancer with you. Tests could put your mind at rest. Until you find out, you can’t rule it out.
http://nhs.uk/cancersymptoms

28/03/2025

If your heart age is older than your actual age, you could be at increased risk of having a heart attack. Check your heart age: http://nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/calculate-your-heart-age