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Item 1Newsletter
April 2025
Patient Participation Group (PPG)
(Your voice in the Practice)
Next Meeting 6:30pm Thursday, 24 April 2025
Dr Boswell will continue to share with us the realities of general practice and key aspects of Men' s Health – Prostate Cancer
All patients are warmly invited to share in this opportunity Time will be given for patients’ issues including topics for PPG discussion in 2025
The agenda will also include
- The FHRGP Website – progress
- Allocation of appointments
- Accessing non-urgent care
- A named GP – purpose
- Staff name badges – progress
- Face to face appointments
- Older patients and apps – repeat prescriptions
- The long term plan
- A patients’ questionnaire - progress
Our Team
Surgery operation over easter
The Surgery is closed for Bank holidays. If you have health concerns over this period, please use 111 service. For emergency issues, please call 999.
Wishing you a spring filled with peace, joy and love with a basket full of chocolate!
Changes to Requesting Repeat Prescription
Please request repeat prescriptions through NHS App or Patient access. Surgery will no longer accept paper prescription requests from April 2025.
NHS App Notifications
NHS App notifications will save the surgery expenses on text messages.
Recieve messages from your surgery in your NHS App, instead of by SMS text or letter.
More secure, More reliable
Registration of new patients
We are using a new online service to register new patient.
New patients just need to fill in an online form to get started. They do not need proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number. The service is designed and run by the NHS. It aims to cut practices’ workloads and make GP registration easier for the public.
Paper forms are available for people who need them.
Mobile phone boot camps
The mobile phone boot camps is a fun, informal way of learning useful and practical things with your mobile phone in small group.
It will be held 1:30pm at the Oasis Hub Waterloo on Friday 28 March 2025 and Friday 11 April 2025
Other days and locations are available.
Digital Inclusion
Good things foundation is the leading UK leading digital inclusion chartity. They are on a mission to help everyone become digitally equal, able and safe, so that they can be happier, healthier and safe.
- National Digital inclusion Network – local places for people to get help with digital.
- National Databank – Free mobile SIM cards.
- National Device Bank – Free refurbished devices, like phones, tablets and laptops.
- Free essential digital skills for complete beginners.
Pharmacy First
Pharmacists can now treat the following conditions without needing to see your GP.
Who to see?
Advice
Please make a selection to reveal who is best to deal with your condition.
Physiotherapy app GetUBetter
Physiotherapy app (getUBetter) is provided free of charge for patients registered at Forest Hill Road Group Practice. It can be accessed on a Smartphone or on the Web and guides you day-by-day through a sequence of exercises and tips to help you recover from a range of new or recurrent musculoskeletal conditions: Lower back pain, Back and leg pain, Neck Pain, Shoulder Pain, Ankle Pain, Knee Pain, Soft Tissue Lower Limb Pain, Hip Pain.
You will be referred to the app by one of our GPs or Physios, or you can self-refer by visiting the physiotherapy panel our appointments page.
NHS funded Hearing Aids
- NHS-funded hearing aids and hearing tests for adults.
- Self-Referrals - No GP referrals required! Simply call or book online
- Be seen within 7 days. Appointments are available at your nearest branch.
- New NHS Bluetooth Hearing Aid Technology
Book a Hearing Test
- 020 7297 4488
- Book Online
Nature-based activities for adults
If you are interested in nature-based, outdoor activities to help your mental health and wellbing, you are very warmly welcome at the Horniman on Thursday afternoons throughout the summer.
- Ring: 020 4518 5071
- Text: 07939 375359
- Email: communitylearning@horniman.ac.uk
Sickle cell psychology workshops
Join our sickle cell specialist psychologists at online lunchtime sessions for adults who have sickle cell, sharing ideas and strategies for coping with psychological impact of living with sickle cell.
How to register
These events are open to people who have sickle cell, are aged 18 and over, and living in one of the boroughs: Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and southwark
Take control of your wellbeing
Visit our self-help pages for local and national services you can self-refer to, as well as links to NHS information and resources.
Published: Apr 17, 2025
Providing NHS Services
Forest Hill Road Group Practice
1 Forest Hill Road
Honor Oak, Dulwich
London, SE22 0SQ
Telephone: 020 8299 1234
