Beechwood Surgery - Thornton Cleveleys

10/09/2025

✨️ REMINDER ✨️

ADVANCE NOTICE OF SURGERY CLOSURE FOR STAFF TRAINING

To accommodate staff training, we will be amending our usual service on:

🟢Thursday, 11th September 2025 from 13:00

During this time our phone lines will be diverted, so we will be
unable to take calls in practice.

Alongside training, our clinicians will be seeing patients with
PRE-BOOKED APPOINTMENTS ONLY.

PLEASE NOTE: This closure incorporates our DIGITAL DROP-IN SESSION!
We encourage any of our patients who would like assistance with the NHS App to drop into the surgery on closure day between 2pm and 4pm 🙂

🟢We will open as normal at 8am on Friday, 12th September 2025

Thank you for your understanding.

04/09/2025

Head lice and nits are very common in young children and their families. They do not have anything to do with dirty hair and are picked up by head-to-head contact.

If your child is well enough to go to school but has an infection that could be passed on, such as a cold sore or head lice, let their teacher know.

Learn how to check and treat head lice and nits here:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice-and-nits/

04/09/2025

ADVANCE NOTICE OF SURGERY CLOSURE FOR STAFF TRAINING

To accommodate staff training, we will be amending our usual service on:

🟢Thursday, 11th September 2025 from 13:00

During this time our phone lines will be diverted, so we will be
unable to take calls in practice.

Alongside training, our clinicians will be seeing patients with
PRE-BOOKED APPOINTMENTS ONLY.

PLEASE NOTE: This closure incorporates our DIGITAL DROP-IN SESSION!
We encourage any of our patients who would like assistance with the NHS App to drop into the surgery on closure day between 2pm and 4pm 🙂

🟢We will open as normal at 8am on Friday, 12th September 2025

Thank you for your understanding.

04/09/2025

MESSAGE FROM NHS ENGLAND NORTH WEST SCREENING AND IMMS TEAM- CERVIVAL SCREENING

From September, the NHS plans to start sending results from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme utilising the NHS App.

In September, those who have a negative test result will be notified of this by an App message. It will also appear as an NHS App notification. If the NHS App message isn't read within 72 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe.

Abnormal result letters will continue for the time being to be delivered by post.

This change follows the successful rollout of digital invitations and reminders in June 2025, where since the launch, 9 out of every 10 invitations are being sent digitally, with the remainder being sent by post.

29/08/2025

29/08/2025

We will be holding a DIGITAL DROP IN SESSION at Beechwood Surgery!

📆 Thursday, 11th September 2025 between 14:00 and 16:00

If you are struggling with the NHS app or PATCHs, please drop in the surgery between the above hours, and a member of our team will be happy to assist you 🙂

29/08/2025

SAVE THE DATE!

We will be holding our annual FLU CLINIC at Beechwood Surgery on:

📅 Sunday, 5th October 2025 from 8:30 am!

We will be contacting all eligible Beechwood patients inviting them to book their slot very soon!

29/08/2025

WHAT IS HPV?

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a very common group of viruses, some of which can cause ge***al warts or some types of cancer.

One way to help protect yourself from HPV is through a vaccination if you are eligible.

We have reached out to all eligible patients this week to invite them to book in for an HPV vaccine.

26/08/2025

**** PATIENT INFORMATION ****

Please note there has been a change to the eligible cohort for this Autumns Covid Vaccinations

For Autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will ONLY be offered to:

Adults aged 75 years and over
Residents in care homes for older adults
Individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over

This represents a change from the Autumn 2024 programme, which also included adults aged 65 to 74 and all those aged 6 months and over in a clinical risk group.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer the vaccine to anyone who has been previously eligible.

We will send texts to eligible patients once the clinic is available to book.

18/08/2025

💛 Have you heard of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)?

Also known as “Tapping”, EFT is a simple self-help method that involves gently tapping on specific acupuncture points on your body while focusing on a particular emotional issue.

💛 How do you actually do EFT (Tapping)?

👉 1. Identify the issue
What’s bothering you? Anxiety? A memory? A physical pain? Be specific.

👉 2. Rate the intensity
On a scale of 0 to 10, how strong is the emotion or pain?

👉 3. Set your setup phrase
Repeat something like:
“Even though I feel [insert issue], I deeply and completely accept myself.”

👉 4. Begin tapping
Using 2–3 fingers, gently tap about 5–7 times on these points while repeating short reminders of the issue:
🖐 Side of the hand (karate chop point)
👁 Eyebrow
👀 Side of the eye
👁 Under the eye
👃 Under the nose
🫢 Chin
💪 Collarbone
🫴 Under the arm
💆‍♀️ Top of the head

👉 5. Re-rate your intensity
How do you feel now? If the emotion hasn’t shifted much, repeat with updated wording.

✨ It might feel a bit odd at first, but it’s a powerful tool used by many for stress and emotional release.

💬 Have you tried tapping before? Would you give it a go?

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12/08/2025

When you find out you are pregnant, you can refer yourself for NHS pregnancy care so you start care with a midwife right away.

Once you sign up online, the maternity team will contact you to book your first appointment with a midwife.

You should do this by the 10th week of pregnancy, if possible, but it’s never too late to start. If you're over 10 weeks, refer yourself as soon as you can.

Start here: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/refer-yourself-for-nhs-pregnancy-care/

07/08/2025

The NHS is including more people in its bowel screening service, sending out a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer.
Finding cancer early makes it more treatable. So, if you receive one of these kits, don’t delay – take the test. It could save your life.
To find out more, visit www.nhs.uk/bowel-screening