Southport and Formby Primary Care Network

10/10/2025

🌍 World Mental Health Day – October 10th 💚

Mental health matters every day, but today is a chance to pause and reflect. Whether it’s checking in with yourself, talking to someone you trust, or simply taking a moment to breathe, small steps can make a big difference.

Support is available:
🧠 Mental health practitioners are available during evenings and weekends through our 7-Day GP service.
🤝 Social prescribing link workers can also help with mental health and wellbeing support.

To book an appointment, contact your usual GP practice.

Let’s keep the conversation going and support one another with kindness and understanding.

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/world-mental-health-day

08/10/2025

Looking after your mental wellbeing doesn’t have to be complicated, small steps can make a big difference. 💙

Here are the NHS Five Ways to Wellbeing:
1️⃣Connect – Call a friend, chat with a neighbour, or meet for a coffee.
2️⃣ Be Active – Walk along Southport beach or through Hesketh Park.
3️⃣ Keep Learning – Try a new recipe, hobby or book.
4️⃣ Give – A simple act of kindness can brighten someone’s day.
5️⃣ Take Notice – Pause and appreciate the small things around you.

Find out more: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/five-steps-to-mental-wellbeing

07/10/2025

Anyone can get breast cancer, so remember to regularly touch, look and check. Get to know your normal by checking your breasts regularly. Touch your breasts. Look for changes. Check anything new or unusual with a GP. https://breastcancernow.org/about-breast-cancer/awareness/signs-and-symptoms-of-breast-cancer

02/10/2025

Congratulations to our 7-Day GP and Early Cancer Diagnosis teams 🌟 Making it to the finals is a huge achievement and shows their amazing commitment to patients, winners in our eyes! 👏

01/10/2025

Commit to quitting for 28 days this Stoptober. If you can stop smoking for this period, it significantly increases your chances of quitting permanently.

Your long-term risks of many health conditions are reduced if you quit smoking and you’ll feel the benefits within a few short days, from improved sense of smell and taste to more energy and breathing more easily. Why not give it a try? https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/

30/09/2025

The ‘Living Well’ bus is back in Sefton this October offering:
✅ Immunisations (including MMR for all ages)
✅ Health checks
✅ Mental wellbeing support
📍 No appointment needed, just drop by between 10:30am and 4pm!

Southport and Formby dates are:
Tuesday 30th Sept – Chapel St, Southport
Friday 10th Oct – Sandbrook Rd, Ainsdale
Wednesday 22nd Oct – Waitrose, Formby
Thursday 30th Oct - Wickes, Southport, Kew Retail Park
Read more at www.sefton.gov.uk/living-well-bus 🔗

Living Well Bus - October🚌

The ‘Living Well’ bus is back in Sefton this October offering:
✅ Immunisations (including MMR for all ages)
✅ Health checks
✅ Mental wellbeing support

📍 No appointment needed, just drop by between 10:30am and 4pm!

🗓️ Upcoming stops include:

Tuesday 30th Sept – Chapel St, Southport

Thursday 2nd Oct – Lidl, Seaforth

Thursday 9th Oct – Asda, Bootle

Friday 10th Oct – Sandbrook Rd, Ainsdale

Wednesday 15th Oct - Sefton Carers Centre, South Rd, Waterloo

Friday 17th Oct - Lidl, Marsh Lane, Bootle

Wednesday 22nd Oct – Waitrose, Formby

Thursday 23rd Oct – Netherton Activity Centre

Tuesday 28th Oct - Asda Superstore, Aintree

Thursday 30th Oct - Wickes, Southport, Kew Retail Park

Read more at www.sefton.gov.uk/living-well-bus 🔗

25/09/2025

Happy World Pharmacists Day!💊

A big thank you to our PCN Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. They support patients across Southport and Formby with medication reviews, whether that’s over the phone or in person at your GP practice.

Find out more about our team of PCN pharmacists and pharmacy technician here: https://www.southportformbypcn.nhs.uk/our-work/

Here’s our amazing team, we’re so grateful for all you do! 💙

24/09/2025

View appointments, order repeat prescriptions and much more. Manage your health the easy way with the NHS App.
Start using the NHS App today ➡️ nhs.uk/app

23/09/2025

More than 2 million people in the UK are living with sight loss that’s severe enough to have a significant impact on their daily lives. Caring for your eyes can help keep them healthy.

• Eat a balanced, healthy diet
• Get active
• Do not smoke or v**e
• Protect your eyes when the UV Index rises to 3 or more
• Have regular eye tests
Vision matters and National Eye Health Week aims to ensure that everyone takes care of their eyes.

If you have any concerns about your eyes the Community Urgent Eyecare Service (CUES) provides urgent assessment, treatment or referral for sudden onset eye problems such as flashes, floaters, vision loss or minor eye injuries.

Find out more here:

The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Community Urgent Eye Care Service (CUES) provides urgent assessment, treatment or referral for sudden onset eye problems such as flashes, floaters, vision loss or minor eye injuries.

18/09/2025

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.
Contact your GP practice. nhs.uk/cancersymptoms

17/09/2025

Want the best from your GP and the NHS? The 'You and your general practice' guide explains what to expect from your practice and how you can work with them to get the care you need.
Read more here:

NHS England » You and your general practice – English

17/09/2025

Notice for Formby patients at Chapel Lane Surgery and the Hollies Surgery, Formby.

💉 A flu vaccine has been reserved for anyone aged 65 or over.
Visit the walk-in clinic on Wednesday 1st October 2025 at Chapel Lane Surgery.

A safe, one-way route will be in place - please arrive at the time linked to the first letter of your surname.

Need another date? Just contact the surgery.