Bryn Street Surgery

Bryn Street Surgery Patient-focused GP Practice providing exceptional healthcare and diverse services. Please speak to your nominated pharmacist to activate your EPS. Yes you can.

This GP practice is open from Monday to Friday offering patients a wide range of appointment times, clinics and extra services. The practice is part of SSP Health, the largest provider of primary care GP services in the North West of England. SSP Health’s mission statement is to deliver outstanding clinical services, responsive to patient needs, using traditional and innovative methods, encompassing a health and social care approach to enhance the quality of patients’ lives. For more information on this practice or SSP Health, please contact the Practice Manager. You can use our online consultation service at this practice to give you faster and even better care. We know that you don’t just need medical support during practice hours and that you may want to seek advice at any time of day. Our online consultation system gives you 24-hour access to a wealth of health advice, self-care tips, and guidance on what your next steps should be. Plus, you can submit request forms directly to the practice for review if you feel you need further guidance or to see a GP or another clinician. You will be able to ask about lots of other things, too, such as test results, medical reports, and letters, or request a sick note. Any patient can use the online consultation service from a phone, tablet, or computer at any time of the day or night. This allows us to choose the best course of action – we may phone with advice, arrange an appointment for you or prescribe something for you. You can access online consultation through your practice web page or, if you have an account, a health app. Benefits of online consultation are:
• Round the clock advice: Access a wealth of health advice at any time of day or night.
• Less time on the phone: Submit your form online so you spend less time waiting in busy phone queues.
• Accurate medical advice: Receive tailored advice and information based on your symptoms.
• Clinically approved information: All the advice and information available through online consultation is clinically approved and provided by medical professionals. ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION SERVICE (EPS)
If you get regular prescriptions the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) may be able to save you time by saving you unnecessary trips to your GP. EPS allows your GP or another clinician to send your prescription directly to your chosen pharmacy without a paper prescription. If you collect your repeat prescriptions from your GP, you will not have to visit your practice to pick up your paper prescription. Instead, your GP will send it electronically to the place you choose, saving you time. You will have more choice about where to get your medicines from because they can be collected from a pharmacy near to where you live, work or shop. You may not have to wait as long at the pharmacy as there will be time for your repeat prescriptions to be ready before you arrive. Is this service right for you? Yes, if you have a stable condition and you:
• Don’t want to go to your GP practice every time to collect your repeat prescription.
• Collect your medicines from the same place most of the time or use a prescription collection service now. This service is not suitable for all patients. It may not be suitable if you:
• Don’t get prescriptions very often.
• Pick up your medicines from different places. How can you use EPS? You need to choose a place for your GP practice to electronically send your prescription to. This is called nomination. This could be a pharmacy local to your home or work address. Ask any pharmacy or a member of the reception team to add your nomination for you. You don’t need a computer to do this. Can I change my nomination or cancel it and get a paper prescription? If you don’t want your prescription to be sent electronically, tell your GP. If you want to change or cancel your nomination, speak to your nominated pharmacist or dispensing appliance contractor. It is important to tell them before your next prescription is due or your prescription may be sent to the wrong place. Is EPS reliable, secure and confidential? Yes. Your electronic prescription will be seen by the same people in GP practices, pharmacies and NHS prescription payment and fraud agencies that see your paper prescription now. Sometimes dispensers may see that you have nominated another dispenser. For example, if you forget who you have nominated and ask them to check or, if you have nominated more than one dispenser. Dispensers will also see all the items on your reorder slip if you are on repeat prescriptions. Benefits of EPS:
• More efficient and convenient for patients and staff.
• Reduces paper.
• Safer, faster and more efficient.
• Patients don't have to visit their GP for a prescription.
• Patients won't have a paper prescription to lose. For more information visit http://www.hscic.gov.uk/epspatients or your pharmacy. HELP US TO IDENTIFY CARERS
If you have a partner, relative, friend or neighbour who relies on you and you are providing valuable unpaid care and support for them, please notify this GP practice and we will be able to add you to our carers register. Although caring for someone can be very rewarding, it can also be tiring and stressful or make it harder to look after your own health and wellbeing and so for this reason we would like to make a note on your medical records that you are a carer. This will allow us to provide you with additional information and support. Often people do not see themselves as a carer and are totally unaware of the additional care and resources available to them both as part of their GP practice but also externally via referral to a carers centre. Please contact practice reception who will be happy to advise you further. THIS PRACTICE SUPPORTS NHS RESEARCH
This practice works with the NHS National Institute for Health Research, to promote research and offer our patients the opportunity to take part in ethically approved research studies. Research has always been at the heart of NHS, mainly through hospitals; however, research will become standard practice within GP surgeries. Research allows the NHS to continually improve treatments and discover the best ways to prevent, diagnose and mange illness. Research also helps to understand how best to focus NHS resources. As a patient, you may at times now be offered the opportunity to participate in medical research. This practice is involved in research in several ways, which may involve providing information from the practice database for a research organisation or we may be a site where research activity is undertaken. We may also identify that you are suitable for a research study at one of our other sites. For more information on this and NHS research, please see these useful websites…
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/information-about-patients/
www.ukctg.nihr.ac.uk
www.researchforthefuture.org

FARSITE
This practice is currently signed up to FARSITE, which provides a safe, convenient and effective way for GP practices to control the recruitment of their patients into clinical research, whilst allowing NHS-based researchers to run complex and powerful searches over population level health record data. All data is anonymous. For more details contact: www.nweh.co.uk/products/farsite

RCGP RESEARCH AND SURVEILLANCE CENTRE (RSC)
This practice is contributing pseudonymised data for national research and surveillance. This data enables continuous monitoring of infections and diseases in the community and is used in ethically approved research. The RCGP RSC is the main source of information for Public Health England (PHE) and helps with prediction and management of flu outbreaks and pandemics. Providing pseudonymised data does not affect patients, their care or privacy, however, if you no longer wish to allow your information to be used, please speak to our Practice Manager. THIS PRACTICE CONTRBUTES TO THE CLINICAL PRACTICE RESEARCH DATALINK (CPRD)
Information in patient records is important for medical research to develop new treatments and test the safety of medicines. This practice supports medical research by sending some of the information from patient records to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). CPRD is a government organisation that provides anonymised patient data for research to improve public health. You cannot be identified from the information sent to CPRD. If you do not want anonymised information from your patient record to be used in research you can opt out by speaking to your doctor. For more information about how your data is used visit www.cprd.com/public

HOW CAN THE PUBLIC OPT-OUT? The public can change their national data opt-out choice via www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-data-matters
or by calling the NHS Digital Contact Centre on 0300 303 5678.

26/09/2025

🧦 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 🧦

SSP Health GP practices across Wigan are running a ‘Winter Sock Appeal’ throughout October to support homeless people across Wigan this winter.

🧦 All sizes of socks are required - 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲!

👇 Socks can be dropped off at any of the below GP surgeries:

📌 Ashton Medical Centre
📌 Braithwaite Road Surgery
📌 Bryn Street Surgery
📌 Claire House Surgery
📌 Golborne Surgery
📌 Higher Ince Surgery
📌 Lowton Surgery / Platt Bridge Surgery
📌 Marsh Green Medical Practice

The Brick are an anti-poverty charity and are always in need of kind donations.

👇 If you are able to, please also consider donating any of the below items which we can drop off on your behalf:

🧼 Toiletries
🍖 Tinned meat & fish
🍪 Biscuits
🥣 Cereal
🫖 Tea & coffee

All donations will be given directly to The Brick once our appeal has finished for them to distribute over the winter months.

23/07/2025

Early detection saves lives!
📣 Calling all men aged 64+ in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire!
To book an AAA screening appointment, please contact our office on 0161 291 5716
Please follow us and tag us into any Facebook posts at:
🔗 www.facebook.com/AAAscreeningprogramme

The Greater Manchester & East Cheshire Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening Programme's aim is to reduce the number of ruptured AAA deaths. Men aged 65+ are invited for a quick pain-free scan on the tummy. Results are given straight away.

Across England, access to the medication is being phased and prioritised to ensure patients with the greatest clinical n...
07/07/2025

Across England, access to the medication is being phased and prioritised to ensure patients with the greatest clinical need can receive it.

Cohort 1 – will start in the summer of 2025 in response to the requirement of NICE to make this drug available in “Primary Care Settings”. GPs should not directly prescribe tirzepatide for weight loss. The ICB is in the process of commissioning community/primary care weight loss prescribing services so that GPs have somewhere to refer eligible patients in line with the NICA TA1026 and NHS England Commissioning Guidance. As soon as these are available we will update you, we are looking to implement these as soon as possible.
The FAQs describe eligibility but for clarity the national roll out set by NHS England mean access this year is only for people with at least 4 of the 5 health conditions listed below plus a BMI of at least 40 (BMI to be adjusted for ethnicity*).
The following weight-related health conditions will be used to define those who are eligible first:

- type 2 diabetes mellitus
- high blood pressure
- heart disease
- obstructive sleep apnoea (when your breathing stops and starts -while you sleep)
- abnormal blood fats (dyslipidaemia)

See below here for more information.

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity Semaglutide (Wegovy®) for the management of obesity Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for the management of obesity for certain pa...

29/05/2025

Please come and join us for a health, wellbeing and mental health event oganised by LIGA primary care network.

Wednesday 4/6/25
1.00pm - 4.30pm
Kidglove house, Kidglove Rd Golborne WA3 3GS

This will give an opportunity to meet a number of the services available to support you and the local community.

Attending services include:

-Benefits Advisors from income Maximisation team.
-Wigan Family welfare.
- Health First.
-Be well smoking Advice.
-Armed Forces Veterans.
-National institute for health and care research.
- Patient Participation Group.
And many other service.

Let us help you by providing the links to people who can help you.

We look forward to seeing you 😊

29/04/2025

💉𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿?

✅ Everyone aged 75 and over
✅ Those who are immunosuppressed

❗This weekend we have a walk in clinics available:

📆 Saturday 3rd May at Pemberton Surgery, Sherwood Drive, WN5 9QX
⏰ 8.30am - 10.30am

📆 Sunday 4th May at Elmfield Surgery, Ormerod House, Atherton, M46 0LE
⏰ 10am - 2pm

❌ 𝗡𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 - or you can book an appointment if you prefer. Ring 119 or book online https://www.nhs.uk/.../vaccina.../book-covid-19-vaccination/

The This Van Can ovarian cancer awareness roadshow – a partnership between the NHS, the Dianne Oxberry Trust and Target ...
11/03/2025

The This Van Can ovarian cancer awareness roadshow – a partnership between the NHS, the Dianne Oxberry Trust and Target Ovarian Cancer – is coming to Greater Manchester in February, March and April 2025.
Come and find out about the key symptoms of ovarian cancer, learn about your ovaries, pick up some information or chat to our friendly staff.
Read on for a full timetable with venues added as soon as they are confirmed.

The This Van Can ovarian cancer awareness roadshow - a partnership between the NHS, the Dianne Oxberry Trust and Target Ovarian Cancer - is coming to Greater Manchester in February, March and April 2025. Come and find out about the key symptoms of ovarian cancer, learn about your ovaries, pick up so...

Our service is regulated and assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Please feedback to CQC on care you have rece...
10/03/2025

Our service is regulated and assessed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Please feedback to CQC on care you have received from us via Give Feeback on Care. You can also call CQC on 03000 616161 .

10/03/2025

☎️ TELEPHONE ISSUE ☎️

Apologies to all our patients this morning we are experiencing some problems with the telephone calls, most of them are coming through initially but then just silent on our end.

This is happening accross the borough, and we are awaiting an update from the provider.

We will update as often as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

21/02/2025

"Taking your bra off at the end of the day feels great.

And so does getting your breast screening sorted. It can detect cancer before you can feel it. Or more likely, put your mind at rest.

So when you're invited, save the date. It could save your life.

nhs.uk/breast"

Don’t Let the Flu Catch You – Get Your Flu Jab Today! 💉This winter, we’re seeing a tidal wave of flu cases affecting tho...
02/01/2025

Don’t Let the Flu Catch You – Get Your Flu Jab Today! 💉

This winter, we’re seeing a tidal wave of flu cases affecting thousands across the country. Hospitals are experiencing record numbers of patients needing treatment for flu-related illnesses. Let’s do our part to ease the strain and protect ourselves, our families, and our community.

🌟 Why get your flu jab?

- Reduces your risk of catching the flu and getting seriously ill.
- Protects vulnerable loved ones and helps prevent the spread.
- Supports our NHS by reducing the number of people needing treatment.
- Don’t wait—book your flu jab today. Together, we can ride out this wave and stay healthy this winter!

💙 Stay protected. Stay well.

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Bryn Street Surgery/Railway Surgery

Bryn Street Surgery is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6.30pm at Ashton Health Centre offering patients a wide range of appointment times and extra services, including blood tests and travel vaccinations. Its branch site is Railway Surgery, in Golborne.

The practice is part of SSP Health, the largest provider of primary care GP services in the North West of England, one of only three such organisations in England serving more than 100,000 patients.

SSP Health’s mission statement is to deliver outstanding clinical services, responsive to patient needs, using traditional and innovative methods, encompassing a health and social care approach to enhance the quality of patients’ lives.

For more information, please contact the Practice Manager.