Sept 2025
HELP US TO HELP YOU
GP Practices across the UK are closing and jobs are being lost nationally. At Springfield we strive to provide the best possible and quality care to you. We follow the BMA Safe Working Guidance, which recommends longer appointments but capped to a daily limit. Offering a longer appointment helps with the increasingly complex health needs of the population.
The Government keep enforcing new contracts and demands on us, but there is only so much we can do safely in a day. Consultations are available by telephone, face to face and online, but these are all appointments. So please use these carefully and appropriately so that all patients get access when they need it. Please cancel your appointment if you can't attend. Unfortunately we still get far too many "did not attend" or last minute cancellations within minutes of their appointment. These are then wasted.
The short video below explains what is actually happening. We get £107 per patient per year, or 30 pence a day, to provide your healthcare, whether you see us once in 10
years or see our healthcare team several times a week.
Please see link below to video.
June 2025
We have seen an increase in patient requests for Mounjaro ( tirzepatide) following recent media coverage, including on BBC.
To ensure fair and sustainable access, the NHS is carefully planning how to integrate Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) and other GLP-1 agonists into weight management services. In Coventry and Warwickshire, we are undertaking a full review of our obesity care pathways. This work is essential to provide the necessary capacity and support for patients who may benefit from these treatments.
What This Means for You
NHS referrals: If you need support with weight management, you can be referred to existing combined tier 3 or tier 4 weight management services through your GP
Private treatment: While private clinics may offer weight loss medications, the NHS will not take over the prescribing or monitoring of these treatments
“Right to Choose” Providers: We are aware that at least one “right to choose” provider, Oviva, is promoting its online weight loss service directly to patients. Coventry and Warwickshire ICB does not commission Oviva or any other “right to choose” weight management provider at present, because we do not consider their offer to be consistent with our approach and policy to weight loss services in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Why Are We Taking This Approach?
With around 65% of adults in Coventry and Warwickshire being classified as overweight or obese, demand for these medications is expected to be high. By developing robust systems and pathways, we aim to:
- Prioritise patients most in need
- Ensure safety and proper lifestyle support alongside medication
- Deliver a fair and consistent service
The Mounjaro injections for weight loss will be delivered by a new weight management service that will be set up soon.
January 2025
At our Practice we are constantly looking at preventative healthcare and how we can work with you to recognise early symptoms of serious conditions in order to start treatment and prevent worsening. This could be through medication, surgery or simple lifestyle changes.
Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on Hypertension, otherwise know as high blood pressure, in men between the ages of 45 to 55. Statistics have shown that this group are at a higher risk of this condition. Therefore, monitoring blood pressure each year in these patients can improve the chance of recognising the early signs, enabling a treatment plan to be put in place and reducing the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke.
If you receive (or have already received) a text message from the practice asking you to submit a blood pressure reading, we actively encourage you to complete this as soon as convenient. If you have your own monitor, you can submit through the link on your text. Otherwise you can go to your nearest pharmacy that provides Blood Pressure checks and they will take a reading from you and submit it to the practice.
What Next
If your reading is deemed within normal range, you will receive a message from us thanking you for your submission and advising you that you have nothing further required for a year. We recommend that these readings are completed and submitted annually.
If your reading is between 141/91 mmHg and 179/110 mmHg, you will be asked to complete a 7-day monitoring process. This will mean that you will need to take daily readings over a 7-day period and submit these to the practice. This can done through your own blood pressure machine, a Pharmacy that provides blood pressure checks or you can contact the practice to discuss the loan of a monitor. Please note that these monitors are limited and have a strict loan duration in order for as many patients to have access to this service.
If your reading is above 179/110 mmHg you will be required to attend the practice in order to discuss a treatment plan with one of our clinical team.
Your health is at the forefront of this programme, and we strongly advise, should you receive the invite, that you participate. If you have any concerns or questions that you wish to discuss further then please contact the surgery.
In addition, we have a number of suggested articles that may help give you a better understanding of Hypertension and related conditions. The links for these are below:
British Heart Foundation - High Blood Pressure
Blood Pressure
1st August 2024
You’ll hear a lot in the coming days about GPs being on strike and various twists on this. We are not on strike but we are taking a stance about inadequate practice funding and unfunded work. We want to keep our surgery as your local surgery and family GPs.
Practices are closing and jobs are being lost nationally. This short video explains what is actually happening.
We get £107 per patient per year. 30pence a day, to provide your healthcare, whether you see us once in 10
years or see our healthcare team several times a week.
You will notice some changes in the coming months, but as the GP partners, we are doing this to protect our staff, but ultimately we are doing this to provide continued and SAFE patient care.
Please watch the link https://rb.gy/vkstht
May 2024
NHS Coventry, Warwickshire & Solihull Talking Therapies
If you are currently struggling with low mood, stress, depression or anxiety and are aged 16 or over, Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies offers free and confidential support for your mental health. To find out more, please get in touch with us and speak to a GP. Alternatively, you can self-refer via telephone, or by visiting the Talking Therapies website here.
Telephone: 02476 671 090
Address: Melbourne Gardens, Windsor Street, Coventry, CV1 3BT
Website: www.talkingtherapies.covwarkpt.nhs.uk
Opening Hours:
Monday: 9-4:30pm
Tuesday: 9-4:30pm
Wednesday: 9-4:30pm
Thursday: 9-4:30pm
Friday: 9-4:30pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
Patient Participation Group meeting
The notes from the last patient participation meeting are now on the website . Please click on the patient group page to read them.
Thank you to all patients who attended for your input
30th October 2023