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26/11/2025

🩵 November is Diabetes Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early detection, ongoing monitoring, and understanding how diabetes affects people across different life stages.

This year’s World Diabetes Day theme, “Diabetes Across Life Stages,” reflects how experiences of diabetes shift from childhood through older age. The related focus on well-being draws attention to the wider physical, mental, and social impacts seen throughout a person’s life.

In primary care, these themes are reflected in the role that routine reviews, screening programmes, and regular check-ins play. Invitations for diabetes check-ups contribute to early identification of changes, continuity of care, and a clearer picture of long-term health needs within communities.

Key benefits often linked to these check-ups include:

Identifying early signs of complications

Supporting adjustments in treatment

Monitoring overall well-being

Reducing risks linked to heart, kidney, and eye health

💙 Diabetes Awareness Month offers an opportunity to highlight the lifelong nature of diabetes and the value of consistent engagement with established primary care pathways.

11/11/2025

Shining a Light on the Work of Women’s Aid

Health and wellbeing are about more than physical care. Feeling safe, respected and supported is just as important.

Women’s Aid provides vital help to women and children affected by domestic abuse. Through local services, refuges and advocacy, the charity offers a lifeline for those rebuilding their lives free from fear and harm.

Primary care is often where the early signs are spotted. Subtle changes in wellbeing, unexplained injuries or emotional distress can be the first indicators that something isn’t right. Awareness of organisations like Women’s Aid helps healthcare teams guide people towards safety, understanding and the right support.

It’s a privilege to highlight and support the ongoing work of Women’s Aid and the difference they make in creating safer communities for all.

Learn more about their work or how to get involved at womensaid.org.uk.

27/10/2025

🌸 October is Menopause Awareness Month 🌸

Menopause is a natural part of life but it is often overlooked or misunderstood. This October we are shining a light on the importance of awareness, empathy and proactive healthcare.

💜 Why primary care matters:
Your primary care provider is often the first person to notice changes, start important conversations and guide you through this transition. From managing symptoms to ensuring preventive screenings and mental health support, primary care plays a vital role in helping women thrive through menopause and beyond.

💬 Let’s talk about it:
• Menopause symptoms can affect every part of life but you do not have to navigate them alone.
• Regular check-ups can help detect related health risks early (such as heart disease, osteoporosis and mental health changes).
• Open conversations with your primary care team can lead to personalised care and better quality of life.

Knowledge is key. When women and healthcare providers share open, informed conversations it leads to better care and stronger support.

24/10/2025

🎉 Celebrating Excellence in Primary Care Administration! 🎉

We were proud to sponsor the Administration / Reception Manager of the Year category at this year’s PMA Awards, recognising the incredible dedication and professionalism of those who keep primary care running smoothly every day.

🏆 Winner: Susan Cooke – Collingwood Health Group
👏 Highly Commended: Rosheny Rajbahak – Havergal Surgery

Congratulations to both Susan and Rosheny on this well-deserved recognition. Your hard work and commitment make such a difference to patients, practices and the wider healthcare community.

A huge thank you to the PMA team for hosting another fantastic event and for allowing us to be part of celebrating the people who make primary care better for everyone.

23/10/2025

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month because protecting information is protecting patients.

At NovaHS, supporting the practices we work with is at the heart of what we do, helping primary care teams deliver safe, connected and trusted services.

Behind every digital interaction, from every login to every shared record and every referral, lies the same responsibility that drives us all in healthcare: to keep our patients safe.

As technology becomes more deeply embedded in how care is delivered, from digital records to online consultations, our responsibility to protect the data and systems that make that care possible grows too.

Cyber security is essential because it safeguards the continuity and quality of care. A secure digital environment ensures clinical correspondence, pharmacy processes and patient communications can continue without disruption. It protects sensitive information, supports accurate clinical decisions and upholds the trust that patients place in their primary care teams every day.

At NovaHS, we take cyber security seriously and see it as everyone’s responsibility. Through regular staff training and continual awareness, we ensure our teams have the knowledge and confidence to keep information safe and services running smoothly. The practices we work with know how seriously we take this commitment and trust us to maintain the highest standards of digital safety.

Our multidisciplinary services, from clinical correspondence workflow and document management to clinical support and pharmacy services, are designed around three core pillars: safety, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Perhaps our unwritten fourth pillar is reliability, because every part of what we do depends on systems and people our partners can trust. Cyber security plays a vital role in ensuring that reliability remains constant.

As highlighted in NHS England’s Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Social Care, strong digital defences underpin safe, continuous and confident care.

This month and every month, NovaHS stands with our partners in making cyber safety an integral part of patient care.

20/10/2025

We may have been miles apart, but that didn’t stop us sharing a cuppa for a great cause! ☕💚

Our virtual Macmillan Coffee Morning was full of smiles, chats, and plenty of tea and coffee. It was wonderful to take a break together and support such an incredible organisation doing vital work for people living with cancer.

A big thank you to everyone who joined in and made it such a lovely morning!

Find out more about Macmillan’s work here 👉 https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

10/10/2025

🌍 World Mental Health Day 2025 🌍

World Mental Health Day, recognised each year on 10 October, is a moment to reflect on the importance of mental health and its place at the heart of overall wellbeing.

The 2025 theme “access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies” highlights the need for mental health support to remain accessible, responsive and inclusive even in times of crisis.

Across the primary care system professionals play a vital role in identifying and supporting people experiencing mental health challenges. From GPs and nurses to pharmacists and social prescribers, primary care often provides the first point of contact and a space where conversations about mental wellbeing can begin.

This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing work within primary care to ensure that mental and physical health are treated with equal importance and that access to compassionate, integrated care is available to all.

30/09/2025

Celebrating the Work of Alzheimer’s Society

Earlier this month we shared a post to mark Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Today we want to shine a light on the incredible work of Alzheimer’s Society.

The charity provides vital support for people living with dementia and their families through their dementia support line, local services and online community. They ensure no one has to face dementia alone.

Alzheimer’s Society also funds pioneering research into the causes, treatment and prevention of dementia while campaigning nationally to make dementia a priority across health and social care. Their work is helping to drive change, challenge stigma and improve quality of life for those affected.

Every donation, conversation and campaign they lead makes a difference for the millions of people whose lives are touched by dementia.

You can learn more about their work or get involved at alzheimers.org.uk.

26/09/2025

Migraine Awareness Week: Time to Strengthen Support and Access to Care

Migraine is thought to affect around 1 in 7 people in the UK yet it often goes undiagnosed and unrecognised. Only about 3% of adults are recorded as having migraine.

Among those who seek care, fewer than 40% are believed to be offered preventive treatment and less than 1 in 4 are referred when first-line treatments do not work.
This year’s theme, “Migraine Means”, is about showing the real impact migraine has. It highlights not only the symptoms people endure but also the challenges they face in daily life and at work. It underlines why better support and access to care are so vital.

Migraine has a major effect on quality of life, often limiting education, careers and social participation.

The condition also carries a significant economic impact through lost productivity and healthcare costs.

Beyond this, many people experience stigma or misunderstanding, which adds to the burden of living with migraine.

This week, let us not only raise migraine awareness but also push to ensure the needs of people with migraine are not overlooked.

25/09/2025

💊 Happy World Pharmacists Day 💊

Today we say a big thank you to all pharmacists for the vital work you do in keeping our communities healthy.

To our colleagues in Primary Care thank you for supporting patients every day with safe and effective use of medicines and for being such an important part of the wider healthcare team.

To our Novahs pharmacists thank you for your dedication, expertise and care. Your contribution makes a real difference to the people we support and to the quality of care we provide.

We are proud of the work you do and grateful for the impact you have.

22/09/2025

What a fantastic couple of days at the

Lincolnshire LMC Practice Management Conference 2025 on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th September.

The atmosphere throughout was so positive and energising. It was a real reminder of the strength across primary care when practices come together.

It was inspiring to see so many dedicated practice staff whose passion and commitment truly drive the vision of creating a better NHS for everyone.

A huge thank you to everyone involved for making it such a memorable and motivating event.

17/09/2025

September is World Alzheimer’s Month

It is estimated that every three seconds someone in the world develops dementia. Stigma and lack of awareness remain some of the biggest barriers to diagnosis, care and support.

Primary care plays a vital role in spotting the early signs, supporting families and guiding people towards the right help. GPs, nurses and community health teams are often the first point of contact, making their awareness and confidence essential in improving outcomes.

This year, let’s commit to:

✔️ Raising awareness and challenging misconceptions
✔️ Supporting carers with compassion and resources
✔️ Advocating for early diagnosis and better access to care
✔️ Remembering that behind every statistic is a person, a story and a family

Together we can break the silence and create a more inclusive, dementia-friendly world.

💡 How is your organisation or community supporting awareness this month? We'd love to hear your thoughts.

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