Thorndike Medical Centre

23/07/2025

📢 Important Notice: Impact of Resident Doctors’ Strike on GP Services 📢

Resident doctors (formerly known as junior doctors) will be taking industrial action from 7am Friday, 25 July to 7am Wednesday, 30 July. This strike is expected to impact ALL NHS services, including GP practices. Where a number of resident doctors are working.

During this time:
✅ Please think carefully about which NHS service you use. We encourage the NHS Stop Think Choose campaign. www.StopThinkChoose.co.uk
✅We aim to operate as normal. Please continue to attend booked appointments.
🚨 Call 999 only in life-threatening emergencies
🧠 Mental health crisis services remain available through usual routes
💊 Many issues can be managed at your local pharmacy or urgent treatment centre

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25/06/2025

NOTICE FOR PATIENTS:
ACCESSING MOUNJARO MEDICATION FOR WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

You may have seen the media reporting that GP surgeries can now start to prescribe Mounjaro (tirzepatide) for weight management, However the ICB are currently still sorting the arrangements for this.

There will be strict criteria for patients to be prescribed this drug and it will be phased in gradually through a special agreement between NICE and the NHS in England, to ensure primary care services are not overwhelmed and can manage the extra demand safely.

This means that access will be prioritised for those with the greatest clinical need, as they would benefit most from the treatment.
For Kent and Medway, GP surgeries will not be able to prescribe this medication for obesity until all arrangements are in place.

Please DO NOT CONTACT us for medication for weight management.
When we have more information for the ICB we will update this message.

For more information, please refer to:

Mounjuro is the brand name for tirzepatide, a drug which has been licensed and approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for managing overweight and obesity.

23/05/2025

🕊️ Important Notice to Our Patients 🕊️



On 29th May 2025 our team will be in attendance at the funeral of a much-loved colleague. We appreciate your understanding and support during this time as we pay our respects.



🔹 Our phone lines and front desk will remain open.

🔹 For non-urgent matters, we kindly ask that you contact us on the next working day.



Thank you for your patience and compassion.



— The Team at Thorndike Partnership

21/05/2025

In Memoriam of Dr Oluwaseun Arokodare.

10/03/2025

This issue has now been resolved

**Urgent information**

We are currently experiencing issues with our phone lines. The service provided is currently working on fixing the issue. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

27/02/2025

Wednesday 12 March is No Smoking Day – the Medway Stop Smoking Service is free and has lots of tools to help you quit for good.

➡️ https://orlo.uk/Medway_Stop_Smoking_Service_ltEI8

19/07/2024

⚠️System Issue⚠️

There is an issue Nation wide with our clinical system we are currently experiencing, the third part provider is trying their best to get this resolved as quick as possible.
Please bare with us at this time, we are limited in what we can access.

We will keep you updated.

Many thanks for your patience.

15/04/2024

The Thorndike surgery phone lines are down. The surgery is looking into this as a matter of urgency. We apologise for any inconvenience. We hope the situation will be rectified as soon as possible.

12/03/2024

We have been made aware that there are some issues with our phone system this morning. This has been raised with the phone company and we hope this is resolved as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding

23/05/2023

‼️URGENT NOTICE‼️:

This issue has been resolved

The NHS Internet is down across all of Kent, it has been marked as a major incident and they are trying to resolve this as quickly as possible, meaning we do have restricted access to some of our services, please bare with us at this time.

We are unable to book or amend appointments.

Thank you for your patience

All the team at Thorndike medical centre

21/03/2023

NHS Kent and Medway are still have this issue affecting all practices in the area.

Please contact the surgery via the telephone. As we are having issues with emails.

We are aware of an IT issue affecting the phone and booking systems of all GP practices across Kent and Medway.

If you already have an appointment booked, please attend as usual.

We are working to get this fixed as soon as possible. Please be patient with practice staff while we do.

Minster Surgery
Kingsnorth Medical Practice
Kent County Council
Medway Council
Westgate Surgery, Westgate-on-Sea
The Grange Practice
Headcorn Surgery
Dr Molony & Partners At Sturry Surgery And Canterbury Health Centre
The Wellcome Practice Dartford
Healthy Living Centre Dartford
Whitstable Medical Practice
Herne Bay PCN
Faversham Medical Practice

17/03/2023

We are currently experiencing IT issues affecting our emails and internet.

The practice is not currently receiving incoming emails.

Please call the practice rather than emailing.

IT are currently working on the issue.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.