Thorndike Medical Centre

19/01/2026

🚨⚠️ We are currently experiencing major IT issues, this has been reported as a national outage, we apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience, as some services may take longer than usual 🚨⚠️

12/12/2025

**We are currently experiencing an IT outage** this is national and out of our control. We hope to have our systems back up and running as soon as possible thank you for your understanding

05/12/2025

🎄 Protect Your Festive Season – Get Your Flu Vaccine! 🎄

The NHS has issued a Flu SOS as flu cases are rising earlier than usual this year. With the season starting sooner, it’s more important than ever for those who are eligible to get vaccinated.

💉 If you’re eligible for the flu vaccine, please contact our reception team to book your appointment. Getting protected now helps keep you, your loved ones, and our community safe throughout the festive period.

Stay well this winter — protect yourself with the flu vaccine. 🎅✨

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.