Prescription Queries

Dear Patient, If you use an online service like Patient Access or the NHS App, you can request your repeat medication directly through this service. We have now...

01 Aug 2025

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Your general practice team is here to help you

At many GP surgeries, there is a range of health professionals who can help you. In this film, three children go behind the scenes at a general practice to meet...

01 Aug 2025

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Flu Clinic 2023 for Over 65s - Saturday 16th September 2023

Dear Patient, You are invited for your FREE Winter Flu Vaccine Each year a free flu vaccine is offered to people who are age 65 years or over. We will be managi...

01 Aug 2025

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Urgent Repeat Prescription Request Policy

Dear Patient, Due to an increasing number of requests for repeat prescriptions to be issued urgently, we have had to review how we handle these requests in orde...

01 Aug 2025

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Phlebotomy for Southport and Formby patients

MESSAGE FROM NHS MERSEY CARE TO ALL SOUTHPORT AND FORMBY GP PATIENTS: Southport and Formby patients given access to online booking system for blood tests Southp...

01 Aug 2025

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Digital Health Library

Dear Patient, If you’d like to improve your health but don’t require medical attention, you may wish to try a health app All of the apps in our Health App Libra...

01 Aug 2025

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Important notice for Hollies patients regarding online access to your health records

Due to the recent merger of the clinical systems of The Hollies and Chapel Lane Surgery, if you were previously a registered patient at The Hollies, you will ne...

01 Aug 2025

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Statement on the prescribing of Semaglutide injection for managing overweight and obesity

Semaglutide (Wegovy®) is a medicine for weight loss and weight maintenance that contains the active substance semaglutide. The Cheshire and Merseyside Interim A...

01 Aug 2025

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Prescribing of over the counter medicines

South Sefton and Southport and Formby localities do not support the routine prescribing (NHS funding) of over-the-counter medicines for self-limiting conditions...

01 Aug 2025

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GP Patient Survey 2024 results

Please see below the results from the 2024 GP Patient Survey.                                                                                                   ...

01 Aug 2025

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Flu Clinic 2023

We will once again be holding our annual over 65 flu clinic on Saturday 16th September on site at Chapel Lane Surgery. You will be notified shortly of the arran...

01 Aug 2025

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Try the NHS App

If you’re a patient at our practice, you can use the NHS App to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet. It doesn’t replace existing service...

01 Aug 2025

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