Hallam Medical Centre

08/10/2025

🧘‍♀️💪 Back pain? Prevention and strength are key. This gentle class helps build the muscles that support your spine 🌀🦴

Perfect for daily movement, recovery or just taking care of YOU 🫶

⚠️ But don't ignore red flag symptoms:
🚨 Numbness or tingling
🚨 Weakness in your legs
🚨 Bladder or bowel changes
🚨 Fever, chills, or unexplained weight loss
🚨 Severe pain that doesn’t improve
🚨 Pain after a fall or accident

❗ Always speak to your GP if you’re unsure

Time to show your spine some love with this gentle, low-impact back care workout by InstructorLive 🌀🫶 Search 'NHS Back Care Video'
✅ Strength
✅ Flexibility
✅ Relief
⚠️ Start with the safety vid available on the NHS Youtube channel

06/10/2025

🫀💥 October = National Cholesterol Month 💪
Time to check in on your heart health ❤️✨

High cholesterol often has no symptoms - but it can lead to heart attacks or strokes 💔
Now’s the time to take action:

🥗 Eat smart
🚶 Stay active
🧪 Get your levels checked
📉 Make simple swaps when eating out

Your heart works hard for you - show it some love 💚

03/10/2025

🍹❌ Ready for a reset?
Sober October is your chance to boost your health 💪, sleep better 😴, save some £££ 💷 AND raise funds for Macmillan 🎗️💚

Doing it for your body, mind, or someone you love? This is your moment 🌟🧠

⚠️ After October, be careful not to slip back into old habits.
If you live with a long-term condition, alcohol can interfere with your meds 💊 and impact your health.

Try to make alcohol-free days part of your routine 🗓️💧

03/10/2025

03/10/2025

👋 Meet Lisa Dale – Deputy Practice Manager 👋

Lisa is one of our two Deputy Practice Managers. She oversees patient access, engagement and experience, appointment delivery, marketing, and communications, and also leads our fantastic front-of-house reception team.

Since joining the practice nearly two years ago, Lisa has brought with her over 15 years of experience in the legal sector—ranging from leading litigation teams to managing operations. She has carried her passion for supporting clients through legal challenges into healthcare, where she now helps patients access the care they need in a welcoming, supportive, and understanding environment.

A natural problem-solver, Lisa thrives on challenges and firmly believes there is always a solution.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, pushing herself in long-distance running (having recently completed a 10k), and in the winter months, you’ll often find her on the slopes indulging her love of snowboarding!

02/10/2025

🎒 Heading off to uni? Stay healthy and protected!

Check out this guide: “Going to university? Here’s how to protect yourself from Freshers’ flu, COVID and other illnesses.” - https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2021/10/going-to-university-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-from-freshers-flu-covid-and-other-illnesses/

👉 Tips include: practising good hygiene, keeping up with vaccinations (COVID, MMR, MenACWY), testing before travel, and seeking help when you feel unwell.

Let’s start the term strong — stay safe, stay well, and enjoy university life!

01/10/2025

🚭 It’s Stoptober - time to take back your health 💪🔥
Whether you've stopped smoking, started again, or switched to va**ng - your doctor needs to know 🧑‍⚕️

Why? Smoking affects long-term health conditions like:
❤️ Heart disease
🧠 Stroke
🫁 Asthma & COPD
💉 High blood pressure & diabetes
💭 Mental health
🚰 Kidney disease

Want to quit? Support is out there - talk to your GP or call the Smokefree helpline 0300 123 1044 📞

01/10/2025

📱 We are aware of the current news interviews discussing GP online access and the reports regarding this affecting face-to-face and same-day appointments.

We would like to reassure all our patients that our new online access, officially live today, is designed to relieve congestion on the telephone lines and ensure you have the most appropriate appointment with the right person within the practice. Once your request has been reviewed, you’ll be contacted either with a booking link to choose a convenient appointment or via telephone — with access to both face-to-face and telephone appointments.

If you’re unable to complete the form or don’t have digital access, our reception team can do this for you or help you complete it using one of our tablets within the surgery.

⚠️ Urgent medical issues that may require a same-day appointment should still be requested over the telephone, not via online access.

Our online access has been designed with patients at the core — focusing on equality, availability, and improvement. We kindly ask all patients to follow the above guidance when accessing care to help ensure our new system works smoothly and efficiently.

30/09/2025

🌟 Meet Tracey! 🌟

Tracey Butler is one of our amazing Deputy Practice Managers 👩‍💼. With 15+ years of NHS experience (and even time as an RAF cadet ✈️), she’s the one who always has a practical solution ready to go ✅.

When she’s not keeping things running smoothly at the practice, you’ll find her diving into history, DIY projects, or tending her lovely garden 🌿💐.

We’re lucky to have Tracey on our team 💙

29/09/2025

❤️ How healthy is your heart?
A heart attack can come with no warning — knowing the signs could save your life 🫀⚠️

Watch out for:
🔥 Chest pressure or pain
💥 Pain in arm, jaw, neck or back
😓 Cold sweat
😵 Lightheaded or breathless

Got heart conditions in the family? You could be at higher risk 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

🧠 Learn more & take control: Search 'NHS Health Assessment Tools' to:
📘 Find NHS heart health info
🧮 Check your heart health
📏 Find your heart age
📈 Check your BP

26/09/2025

👋 MEET THE TEAM

✨ Meet our Business and Network Manager