Western Vale Family Practice

09/10/2025

📢 Western Vale Family Practice Cowbridge, Saturday Flu Vaccination Clinic – Reminder for Booked Patients

📍 Cowbridge Health Centre

🗓 Saturday, 11th October 9am-5pm

This is a reminder for patients who have booked an appointment for our flu vaccination clinic, this Saturday at Cowbridge Health Centre.

✅ Please attend at your booked time

❌ If you can no longer attend, please cancel by replying to your confirmation text – this helps us offer the slot to someone else.

❓This is a Flu Clinic only, for any other healthcare needs, please contact us during the week.

Thank you for helping us run the clinic smoothly and ensuring as many people as possible can be protected this flu season! 💉

If you haven’t booked a flu appointment please respond to the text invite, ☎️ 01446 500562 & select flu, or speak to a member of our reception team to book. 🙏

We have a few appointments left for Saturday 😉

06/10/2025

Western Vale Family Practice - Flu 🤧Clinic (Cowbridge Health Centre, Saturday 11 October)

Due to demand, we have created some more appointments for our Saturday flu clinic this week.

✅If you are eligible please book ASAP. See https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/fluvaccine/eligibility/

📲Respond to the text with the direct booking link

📲Book via the NHS Wales App

☎️Telephone the automated booking system 01446 500562 (available 24/7) & select Flu

Speak to Reception 🙏🏻

03/10/2025

📢 Western Vale Family Practice Saturday Flu Vaccination Clinic – Reminder for Booked Patients

📍 Llantwit Health Centre, Boverton Rd

🗓 Saturday, 4th October 9am-4pm

This is a reminder for patients who have booked an appointment for our flu vaccination clinic this Saturday at Llantwit Health Centre.

✅ Please attend at your booked time

❌ If you can no longer attend, please cancel by replying to your confirmation text – this helps us offer the slot to someone else.

❓This is a Flu Clinic only, for any other healthcare needs, please contact us during the week.

Thank you for helping us run the clinic smoothly and ensuring as many people as possible can be protected this flu season! 💉

If you haven’t booked a flu appointment please respond to the text invite, ☎️ 01446 500562 & select flu, or speak to a member of our reception team to book. 🙏

02/10/2025

0ver 2500 patients have already booked their flu vaccine with Western Vale Family Practice

Book yours and protect yourself and your family now!

📲Respond to the text invite

☎️Telephone the automated booking line 24/7 & select flu

Speak to one of our Reception team 🙏

Not sure re eligibility, see https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/fluvaccine/eligibility/

People with long-term health conditions are being urged to get their flu vaccination this winter to help protect them from serious illness.

Flu can be very serious, especially for those with conditions like asthma and diabetes. The vaccine lowers the risk of infection, reduces severity and helps prevent the spread.

Pictured on the right is Charlotte at her sickest, hospitalised with flu last year. In her own words: “I felt ice cold but I was burning up, my temperature was so high.” Charlotte has underlying health conditions, and while she’s since recovered, she now never misses her flu jab and is urging others to do the same.

🔗 Find out how to get your free flu vaccine here: https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/immunisation-and-vaccines/winter-vaccinations/

28/09/2025

Someone will die today waiting for an organ transplant. The waiting list for transplants increases every year, now totalling more than 8,000 people including babies and children.

Most of us would accept an organ if we needed one. Two minutes now can save up to nine lives.

Since 2015, Wales has operated a deemed consent legislation, where an individual is presumed to consent to organ donation upon death unless they have explicitly stated otherwise or are in an excluded group. Despite this, the support of families is crucial as they may override a decision. This is why we want everyone to talk to their loved ones and register their decision to donate.

Confirm your decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register. It's the best thing you'll do today.

Visit https://orlo.uk/v21TC

25/09/2025

Be prepared for the highs and lows of university life by registering with a GP near your term time address.

It’s important you have access to a GP whilst studying at university, so you can get the support you need, when you need it.

Registering is easy, simply collect a form from the practice itself or use the online form on our website: https://orlo.uk/VWOnt

23/09/2025

After 25 years as a Practice Nurse, including the last 13 years with Western Vale Family Practice , Sister Carolyn Snell has now retired.

We would like to 🙏thank her for her hard work, dedication, and contribution to patient care over the years, and we wish her well for a happy & healthy retirement 😊

23/09/2025

Please remember we will be closed for training on our new telephone system and clinical training for our GPs & Nurses on Wednesday 24 September 2025 (pm).

During this time please consider alternative ways of seeking non urgent advice via:

Self Help Hub: https://www2.surgeryapp.co.uk/widgets/cardiff-vale-self-help-hub/
NHS 111 Wales
Local Community Pharmacy

For administration queries see https://westernvalefamilypractice.surgeryapp.co.uk/admin-queries

For urgent queries only - telephone 01446 772383.

Our Self-Help Hub is a comprehensive resource designed to empower patients by providing easy access to a wide array of self-help information available within the local community. Click on a link below to find out more Check your symptoms Access the NHS Wales Symtom Checker & find the right service f...

22/09/2025

Glamorgan Voluntary Services will be attending the Dementia Friendly Cowbridge Open Day this Friday 26th September.

Come and talk to us about volunteering and information for patients and carers.

See flyer below for more details.

21/09/2025

21/09/2025

Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. No one should face this alone.

Living with Alzheimer’s or Dementia can make everyday life more challenging, especially when combined with other health conditions. At Care & Repair Cymru, our Managing Better service helps older people to stay safe, independent, and well in their own homes.

Our Managing Better service can help with things like:

• Carry out home assessments to make homes safer and easier to live in.
• Arrange minor adaptations and things like sensor light, specialist lighting for sight loss, or step adjustments.
• Provide support with welfare benefits and financial advice.
• Help carers navigate multiple agencies and feel less overwhelmed.

Our caseworker recently supported Mrs Z, a 79-year-old lady living with dementia as well as sight and hearing loss. Life was becoming overwhelming for her and her husband, who is her main carer.

When they were referred to our Managing Better service, we were able to help:

• Installed sensor lights so Mrs Z could move safely around the house at night.
• Adjusted the front steps so she could use her walking frame independently.
• Helped them claim a Council Tax exemption they didn’t know about.

Her husband said: “Thank you so much for what you have done so far and to know that you will be there in the future if we need any more support, is a great relief.”

We’re proud to deliver Managing Better in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society RNIB Cymru Stroke Association Wales RNID ensuring the right support is available at the right time for those living with dementia, sight or hearing loss, or the effects of stroke.

Find out how we can support you: https://careandrepair.org.uk/projects/managing-better-2/