Church Street Surgery

05/09/2025

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️Wyre Forest Health Partnership Fitness Group 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️
We are launching a Fitness Group in collaboration with WalkTalkWalk&RunTalkRun! 👟
The weekly sessions will be based in Kidderminster every Tuesday. 📅
Please see the below poster for more information:

04/09/2025

Our statistics for August 2025 for Team CSS

Triage Data
🟢2337 medical requests
🟢1212 admin request

Total triage requests for July was 3549 which equates to 283 requests per 1000 patients.

National average is 85 requests per 1000 patients
Regional average is 58 requests per 1000 patients

✳️ 903 GP face to face appointments
✳️ 960 GP telephone consultations
⛔️ 61 patients did not attend
✳️ 2232 nurse appointments
✳️ 540 nurse telephone consultations
⛔️ 117 patients did not attend
✳️ 6171 repeat prescriptions
✳️553 hospital referrals

When patients don't attend their appointments and don't let us know it effects not only our team but the wider NHS. If you are unable to attend, please inform us in advance, we may be able to offer the slot someone else who needs it.

Why it matters if you don't cancel:
🕰️Longer waiting times for other patients
😣Frustration for both staff and patients
♻️Wasted resources
⚠️Potential risk to your health
Each missed GP appointment costs the 💰NHS an average of £30.

Help us to help others, cancel any appointments you can't attend. It really does make a difference.

Team CSS

03/09/2025

💚Work Well 💚

WorkWell is available for anyone who is:
- 👩 16+ years old 👩
- Lives or is registered to a GP in Herefordshire or Worcestershire. 🩺
-Has the right to work within the UK.
-Someone experiencing barriers to employment due to health conditions/disabilities.

Please see below contact for more information on the Work Well service.

Worcestershire:
✉️ Email the service hwicb.workwell@nhs.net ✉️

For more information please visit the Work Well website via the link below:

🔗 https://www.hwics.org.uk/our-services/workwell 🔗

28/08/2025

!!!! FLU and COVID vaccinations !!!!

We would like to inform our patients that we will be running FLU and COVID vaccination clinics at the Surgery from early October.
Patients who are eligible will be contacted via text with a self-booking link over the next few weeks. Simply follow the link and book your appointment.
Please wait to receive your text to make your booking, this is to ensure our phonelines remain free for patients who need to contact us with a health concern.
For those patients that do not have a mobile phone, then we will aim to invite you via phone or letter. You can call the surgery to book your appointment.
There are also appointments available online so those patient with access will be able to go online via patient access or NHS app etc and book their own appointment.

You should have the flu vaccination at the surgery if you are:

· Over 65 years old
· Pregnant
· A Carer
· Children aged 2 or 3 years on 31st August
· A close contact of an immunocompromised individual
· Frontline health and social care staff
Or have a long-term condition such as:

· Chronic respiratory disease, such as bronchitis, emphysema or some people with asthma (needing a steroid inhaler or tablets)
· Chronic heart disease and vascular disease
· Stroke or a transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
· Chronic kidney disease
· Chronic liver disease
· Chronic neurological disease, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or cerebral palsy
· Diabetes
· Lowered immunity due to disease or treatment
· A problem with your spleen, such as sickle cell disease, or you have had your spleen removed
· a learning disability
· Morbid obesity

PLEASE NOTE – The COVID vaccination eligibility is only a small cohort this Autumn, Eligible patients will include;

Adults aged 75 years and over
Residents in a care home for older adults
Some individuals who are immunosuppressed

13/08/2025

Hello - we hope you are enjoying the sunshine.
It is time to share our July 2025 data with you for Team CSS

Triage Data
🟢2615 medical requests
🟢1376 admin request

Total triage requests for July was 3991 which equates to 318 requests per 1000 patients.

National average is 96 requests per 1000 patients
Regional average is 63 requests per 1000 patients

✳️ 897 GP face to face appointments
✳️ 1025 GP telephone consultations
⛔️ 54 patients did not attend
✳️ 2888 nurse appointments
✳️ 814 nurse telephone consultations
⛔️135 patients did not attend
✳️ 4776 repeat prescriptions
✳️678 hospital referrals

05/08/2025

💜Bewdley Dementia Awareness Day💜

The towns first ever Dementia Awareness Event!

Date 📅: Sunday 10th August

More information on the Poster:

01/08/2025

Carers Tea Party Hosted by DRPG ☕️

Date 📅 : Tuesday 23rd September
Time: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Location📍: 212 Ikon Estate, Droitwich Road, Hartlebury, Kidderminster, DY104EU

Please visit the link below for more information ℹ️:
🔗 https://www.carersworcs.org.uk/event-details/special-carers-event-hosted-by-drpg 🔗

Carers Tea Party Come and join us for a special buffet lunch along with some fun engaging activities as we celebrate with local business DRPG!

22/07/2025

So today is the day that our lovely Lynne Rees has retired. We celebrated in style with many old faces reminiscing about the bygone years.

Lynne has been the most amazing nurse and a key part of the Church Street family for nearly 40 years.
We will miss you Lynne and wish you a very long, happy and most importantly healthy retirement ###

11/07/2025

09/07/2025

Good Morning

Retirement Loading……. Many of you will know our lovely nurse 👩‍⚕️Lynne Rees who has been part of the Church Street Family for nearly 40 years.

Lynne will hanging up her stethoscope 🩺 for one final time on 22 July. She plans to head off on retirement adventures in her trusty campervan “Beryl” and will take her husband Chris along too.

08/07/2025

Team CSS June Access Data;

Triage Data
🟢2632 medical requests
🟢1314 admin request

✳️ 1018 GP face to face appointments
✳️ 985 GP telephone consultations
⛔️ 46 patients did not attend
✳️ 2570 nurse appointments
✳️ 619 nurse telephone consultations
⛔️ 122 patients did not attend
✳️ 6272 repeat prescriptions
✳️584 hospital referrals

A total of 168 patients failed to attend for their pre-booked appointments - this equates to 28 hours of clinical time lost! Please take a minute to cancel an appointment you do not wish to attend so we can release it for another patient.

24/06/2025

‼️ A note about weight loss injections ‼️

We are receiving multiple requests for patients who are hoping to receive weight loss injections. There are very strict criteria to receive these on the NHS.

GPs can currently only prescribe these for weight loss to patients who have a body mass index (BMI, a measure of your weight against your height) of 40 or more, and also have 4 of the following medical conditions:

- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Dyslipidaemia (high cholesterol)
- Cardiovascular disease (stroke, heart attack, angina, peripheral vascular disease)
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Type 2 diabetes

If you do not have a BMI of 40+ and 4 of the conditions listed above, you will not be able to receive an NHS prescription for weight loss injections, please do not contact us about it. At some point next year, patients with a BMI of 35-39.9 will also qualify but they will still need to have been diagnosed with 4 of the above conditions.

We will be contacting those patients who are eligible in due course. If you do think that you may qualify, please wait for us to get in touch and please be aware we will only be authorised to prescribe the medication if you have already completed another weight loss programme (such as the NHS Digital Weight Management Service or the Diabetes Prevention Programme).

Thank you