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Please follow the below link for information on the implementation of You and Your General Practice (YYGP), which was introduced and agreed as part of the 2025/26 GP contract. Practice … [continue] Practice Guidelines – You and Your General Practice (YYGP)

From September 2025, the NHS plans to start sending results from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme, utilising the NHS App.  In September, those who have a negative test result will … [continue] Cervical Screening results – upcoming changes

Please click here to download the app You can now access a new app which will provide six months of free help to quit smoking. Swindon Borough Council’s Public Health … [continue] New Stop Smoking App

The RSV vaccine catch-up campaign ends soon People aged 76-80 on 31st August, are invited to book a vaccination to protect themselves from RSV, a common lung infection that can … [continue] RSV Vaccinations

A recent update to the pathology reporting system at Great Western Hospital has led to some temporary delays in the way test results are received at  GP practices. Great Western … [continue] Delayed Test Results

All GP practices are required to declare the mean net earnings (eg. Average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. This is required in … [continue] Publication of earnings 2023/2024

The bowel cancer screening programme now includes everyone over the age of 50. You’ll automatically be sent an NHS Bowel Screening Kit when you become eligible. It’s the most important … [continue] Bowel Cancer Screening for over 50’s

Endometriosis impacts 1 in 10 women and those assigned female at birth in the UK, yet so many are still unaware of the condition and its impact.⁠ For Endometriosis Action … [continue] Endometriosis Action Month 2025

This Hospital Passport contains contact details for the Autism Liaison Service at Great Western Hospital, so that autistic people can seek support from a department within the hospital. Self-diagnosed, those … [continue] Hospital Passport for Autistic people

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The NHS in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire is currently seeing a sharp rise in people seeking help and support for common winter conditions that can often … [continue] People seeking help for minor conditions adds extra pressure to busy NHS

The vaccination hub will be contacting housebound patients to offer them their flu and COVID-19 vaccinations by 20th December 2024. We have provided them with the details of our patients … [continue] Flu and COVID vaccinations for housebound patients