Chorlton Family Practice

23/10/2026

🎀A huge thank to everyone who purchased a raffle ticket yesterday!! 🎀 Prizes are being drawn and winners contacted today 🥰 Thank you to the Royal Oak Pub, Coop, Exhale Didsbury, Cafe Nero and Morrisons for donating prizes this year 🩷

22/10/2026

🎀 Breast Cancer Now Fundraising Day!! You can support our JustGiving page here: https://tinyurl.com/557tp6kd 🎀
The lovely Sharon Kilcourse is holding a cake, fruit and biscuit sale throughout the day. 🍰🍎🍪
🎟️ Come play the raffle!
💷 Last year, we raised an amazing £310 — let’s see if we can do even better this year!
Every little bit helps, and all donations are warmly welcomed.
Thank you all for your continued support. 💕

16/10/2026

October is STOPtober - helping encourage the nation’s smokers to make a quit attempt for the month of October and beyond.

For local help, there is a new Stop Smoking Clinic at Withington Hospital in West Didsbury. You can refer yourself without seeing your GP or Nurse at the link below:

https://mft.nhs.uk/withington/services/smoking-cessation-clinic/ Or please call 0161 291 5030 to book an appointment.

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/

05/10/2026

Need advice about a common health condition? Your local pharmacy could be your first stop 💊💙
Highly trained pharmacists can provide expert advice, recommend treatments and, for some common conditions, offer NHS treatment through the Pharmacy First service without you needing to see a GP first 👍
Pharmacy First can help with seven common conditions, including:
• Impetigo (aged 1 year and over)
• Infected insect bites (aged 1 year and over)
• Earache (aged 1 to 17 years)
• Sore throat (aged 5 years and over)
• Sinusitis (aged 12 years and over)
• Urinary tract infections (UTIs) (women aged 16 to 64 years)
• Shingles (aged 18 years and over)
Pharmacists are also available to help with many other everyday health concerns, including coughs, colds, hay fever, aches and pains, digestive problems, medicines advice, healthy living support and more .
If your condition needs further assessment, your pharmacist will make sure you're directed to the right NHS service. They can also identify when symptoms may need urgent medical attention ⚠️
Choosing Pharmacy First can help you get expert advice more quickly while helping to keep GP appointments available for people who need them most Find out more:
https://www.nhs.uk/.../pharmacies/how-pharmacies-can-help/

05/10/2026

📊 **September at Chorlton Family Practice – a month in numbers**

September was another incredibly busy month for our team, supporting a practice population of **22,645 patients**.

☎️ **8,772 incoming calls**
📞 **708 callbacks requested**, with **665 successfully completed**
⏱️ Average call queue time: **4 minutes 38 seconds**

Across the month, our clinical and administrative teams recorded **10,023 patient contacts**, including:

👩‍⚕️ **4,112 face-to-face appointments**
📱 **1,080 online consultations**
☎️ **1,236 telephone appointments**
🏠 **123 home visits**
🏥 **593 patient referrals**

Our Pharmacy Team also had **3,236 patient contacts** and the practice issued **6,795 prescriptions**.

Behind the scenes, our team processed an incredible **5,149 documents** during September too.

Unfortunately, **259 appointments were missed (DNAs)**. Every missed appointment is a slot that could have been offered to another patient, so please remember to cancel if you can no longer attend.

These figures give just a snapshot of the work taking place every day across Chorlton Family Practice. Thank you to our patients for working with us, and to our whole practice team for everything they do. 💙

05/10/2026

What to do when we reach same-day appointment capacity?? 🤔 😵‍💫

For urgent care please visit either of the following walk-in-centers up until 8pm:

Hawthorn Medical Centre - Unit K, Fallowfield Retail Park, Birchfields Road, Manchester, M14 6FS Website: https://hawthornmedicalcentre.org.uk/walk-in-centre Tel: 0161 220 6080 🏥

Trafford General Hospital, Moorside Road, Davyhulme, Manchester, M41 5SL Website: https://mft.nhs.uk/trafford/services/urgent-care-centre/ Tel: 0161 748 4022 🏥

You may also contact 111, or if you have a life threatening emergency please call 999. 📞

25/09/2026

24/09/2026

Patchs Telephone Assistant Is Now Live 📞

The Patchs Telephone Assistant allows you to telephone us without the hassle of waiting in long phone queues. You leave a voice message detailing your request and without needing to wait to speak to a receptionist.

Please note, this is NOT a replacement for patients being able to speak to a receptionist via the phone. This is a new service alongside the phones that we believe will greatly enhance your experience with us.

01/09/2026

September is Urology Awareness Month. Founded to highlight bladder, kidney, prostate, pe**le and testicular cancers and bring together the urology community including researchers, urologists, nurses and and allied healthcare professionals.

Urology Awareness Month is an annual campaign taking place in September to raise awareness of urology diseases. It is run by The Urology Foundation.