Practice News

Are you in the missing millions?

5 million adults in the UK aged 18-64 who could be living with undiagnosed high blood pressure and don’t even know it – raising their risk of stroke, heart attack. kidney disease or even early death.

Know your numbers! week

It’s Know Your Number! Week and we’re looking for the missing 5 million people living in the UK unknowingly with high blood pressure.

UK Emergency Alert

A UK-wide emergency alert test will take place on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm. Mobile phones will emit a […]

August Bank Holiday Pharmacy Opening Hours

Help the NHS to reduce medicines waste – ‘together we can make a difference’

Your local NHS is urging patients to carry out simple tasks to help reduce medicines waste. These include checking how […]

Weight loss injection information update

Hightown Surgery is please to announce that the practice has received information about the commissioning of the weight loss service […]

Important Patient Update – Weight Loss Medications

Hightown Surgery are aware of the publicity regarding weight loss injections and the possibility of these being prescribed in primary […]

Measles outbreaks continue with risk of holidays causing surge

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) states there are measles outbreaks in a number of regions in England, with 109 […]

Heat health warning

First yellow heat-health alert of 2025 issued for the East of England, East Midlands, London and South East regions of […]

‘Amazon-style’ prescription tracking goes live in NHS App for millions of patients

Millions of patients can now track their prescriptions thanks to the rollout of a new feature in the NHS App […]