Kidderminster Medical Centre

23/09/2025

🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️We’re back today! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️🏃‍♂️‍➡️

Join Wyre Forest Health Partnership Fitness Group today for a guided run or walk.

Time ⌚️: 6:30pm
Location📍: Back entrance of Kidderminster Medical Centre

No need to book, just turn up!

15/09/2025

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️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:

12/09/2025

🔴 STOPTOBER 🔴

💙 Let’s quit smoking for good! 💙

Join millions of people who have quit smoking with Stoptober! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

Stoptober is back this October! 📅

This is an annual campaign aimed to support and encourage smokers to quit for good. It runs from ✨ 1st October to 31st October. ✨

Follow the link below to view useful recourses including the free NHS Quit Smoking app! 📱

https://campaignresources.dhsc.gov.uk/campaigns/stoptober-2025/

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

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!

11/07/2025

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

23/06/2025

🩷 Girls and Women’s Health 🩷

🔗 Follow the link below for more information 🔗:

Although life expectancy for a woman is usually longer than for a man, statistics show women live with ill health for more of their lives than men.