Hampstead Group Practice

We are excited to announce a series of Health Promotion Patient Education Forums kicking off with a focus on Menopause.

Wednesday 16th July, 6-7pm

Join us online - scan the QR code below to access the meeting.

Meeting ID: 314 962 322 311 2

Passcode: Jy2HG6JS

These sessions are designed to support and educate patients on a variety of health, education and wellbeing topics.

How to get more info::

• Check the posters in our waiting area
• Or speak to one of our Patient Services Team members

💬 Do you know someone who might benefit? Please feel free to share this information with them!

Let’s work together to promote better health and wellbeing in our community!

Weight loss medications such as Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) and Semaglutide (Wegovy) are not currently available in North Central London.

Please note that when this service is made available in North Central London, it will initially only be available to a small number of people who meet criteria set by NHS England for those most at risk of obesity related health conditions.

Further information can be found on NCL public-facing website including resources on weight-loss programmes available locally.

We are committed to providing safe, caring and effective NHS general practice services to all of our patients. We champion the core values of the NHS Constitution. We seek to involve our patients in decisions regarding their treatment and referrals and to help them manage their health and wellbeing as effectively as possible. We are committed to working with colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams and with the wider community to ensure that we are able to provide the best possible care. 

We actively support medical education and research. As a training practice, HGP provides a supportive learning environment for the education and supervision of healthcare professionals at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In addition, we are involved in a wide range of education and major research programmes. 

Your next poo could save your life 

We are supporting a London-wide campaign to encourage more patients to do their free NHS bowel cancer screening home test, which checks if you could have bowel cancer.  

People who are the right age are sent a free NHS FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) kit every two years. You use it to collect a small sample of poo and post it back to an NHS lab.

The campaign by NHS London, “Your next poo could save your life”, urges more people to use their kit – a message we wholeheartedly endorse.

Screening can help prevent bowel cancer and find it at an early stage when it’s easier to treat. People who complete their screening are 25% less likely to die of bowel cancer. 

The kits are for people with no symptoms and most people get the all-clear.

If you are aged 56, 58 (on or after 16 May 2022) or 60 to 74 and we have your correct address, you will be sent a kit every 2 years. Please use it. By April 2025, bowel cancer screening kits will be for everyone aged 50 to 74 in England.

To find out more and hear from other Londoners about their experience of bowel cancer screening, visit www.healthylondon.org/bcs

If you have symptoms of bowel cancer which last for three weeks or more, please contact the practice and ask for an appointment.