McDonald's Warwick Breakfast Club - Every Friday 9am-11am
Free, warm and welcoming space for all to talk about mental health, wellbeing, or simply to just enjoy a morning cuppa with company
Just pop in, everyone in welcome.
No booking needed.
Because no-one in our community should feel like they’re going through things alone.
☕ Free cup of tea or coffee
📅 Every Friday, 9am-11am
📍 McDonald's Warwick Tesco, Emscote Road, CV34 5QJ
World Mental Health Day – Community Walk in the Park, Friday 10th October
Join the Violet Project in Coventry for an evening walk to mark World Mental Health Day on Friday 10th October. Let’s come together as a community to support wellbeing, enjoy the fresh air, and connect with one another
All services welcome to come along on the walk and mingle!
✨ Free Event
🗓️ Friday 10th October
⏰ 5.30pm start
📍 War Memorial Park- CV3 6PT (Meet 5.15pm in main car park)
💡 Free glowsticks provided
🥤 Refreshments available
🐾 Kids and dogs (on leads) welcome!
Whether you come to reflect, to chat, or just to enjoy a peaceful walk, you’ll be part of something special. 💚
Let’s walk together for mental health. 💬👣
AskSARA website supports healthy ageing
People looking to maintain independence and wellbeing as they age are encouraged to explore the AskSARA website
AskSARA is a free online self-help guide offering personalised advice and support for those facing mobility challenges, difficulties with personal care or pain management, looking to reduce reliance on others or simply wanting to stay safe and active at home.
Let’s quit smoking together this Stoptober!
Set your quit date for the 1 October and Smoke Free Coventry and Warwickshire will help you stop smoking
Smoke Free Coventry & Warwickshire will be with you throughout Stoptober, offering free support, stop smoking aids and medication.
You’re five times more likely to quit for good after the 28 days of Stoptober - so make 1 October the first day of a smoke free life.
World Alzheimer's Month 2025
All of September is the global campaign, World Alzheimer’s Month. The theme for 2025 is ‘Time to Act on Dementia, Time to Act on Alzheimer’s’. The aim is to raise awareness and challenge the stigma surrounding Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
The Alzheimer’s Society identifies 10 early warning signs of dementia to look out for. These include:
Memory loss – especially forgetting recent events
Difficulty concentrating or solving problems
Struggling with familiar tasks – like using appliances or managing money
Confusion about time or place
Problems with vision or spatial awareness
Language difficulties – trouble finding the right words
Misplacing items and being unable to retrace steps
Poor judgment or decision-making
Withdrawal from work or social activities
Mood or personality changes – becoming anxious, irritable, or depressed
It’s important to speak to a GP if any of the above are recognised symptoms. Early diagnosis can lead to better outcomes, access to treatment, and more time to plan for the future.
In Warwickshire, over 8,500 people are estimated to be living with dementia. Nationally, around 1 million people in the UK are living with dementia.
A recent survey from the 2025 Alzheimer’s Society survey highlighted that 42% of people with dementia feel ashamed or stigmatised by their symptoms and 73% feel anxious or worried about living with dementia.
The Warwickshire County Council Living Well web-pages offer helpful resources for people with Alzheimer's by promoting mental stimulation through reading, puzzles, and brain training. You can also find the Gamechanger app, developed by the Alzheimer’s Society and the University of Oxford, which provides brain games that contribute to dementia research while supporting cognitive health.
You can find out more about the services provided by Warwickshire County Council through Dementia Connect or Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia website.
The Dementia Connect service in Warwickshire provides all the resources and support you need to understand the effects of dementia and how you can help provide care for someone with dementia.
Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia offers all the support and resources you need in one place. Here you can find information about dementia, a map of services at district and borough level with details of all the services in the area: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/dementia
Further details about services, support and living well with dementia can be found on Warwickshire’s Living Well with Dementia website, www.warwickshire.gov.uk/dementia or by emailing: dementia.connect@alzheimers.org.uk
For more information if you have worries about your memory, visit the Alzheimer’s Society website: www.alzheimers.org.uk/memoryworry
Find out more about the benefits of early diagnosis, www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/early-diagnosis-benefits
For tips and advice about healthy ageing and tips to keep yourself mentally alert, visit www.warwickshire.gov.uk/falls-prevention/brain-training
For more information and support, visit: www.alzheimers.org.uk/dementiaconnect or call 0333 150 3456
To find out more about Dementia Connect, please visit: https://api.warwickshire.gov.uk/documents/WCCC-684757548-673Tel: 0333 150 3456 or email: dementia.connect@alzheimers.org.uk
Travel Vaccinations - Be Organised! ✈️ ☀️
As many of us plan to get away this year and next, it is really important to book your travel vaccinations in plenty of time
Our Nursing team would like to remind our patients of the following:
Please submit our travel questionnaire at least 6-8 weeks prior to travel
Allow at least 28 days for our reception team to get back to you
And bear in mind it takes at least 4 weeks prior to travel for vaccines to be effective
If your travel vaccination form is a late submission, it may unfortunately be too late for us to get you an appointment or offer vaccines. and we may have to signpost you to a private clinic.
Further details can be found on our Travel Page.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
Visit the NathNac website for details of what jabs you need
Complete the Online Form by clicking HERE
Allow up to 28 days to be contacted by our Reception Team who will then be able to book you into an appropriate clinic
We provide all the necessary vaccinations for travel worldwide and we are a registered Yellow Fever Centre.
Warwickshire CAVA and Stratford-on-Avon District Council online drop-in session for Southam residents
Warwickshire CAVA and Stratford-on-Avon District Council are hosting an online drop-in session for Southam residents who might be interested in finding out about what’s going on in your community, volunteering opportunities and can also provide support for any local groups around funding, volunteering and more
It will be on Wednesday 1st October at 7pm.
If you would like to join, please email socialinclusion@stratford-dc.gov.uk with your name and expressing your interest in joining the online Your Southam drop-in, and you will be sent a Teams invitation nearer the time.
Parenting Project Counselling Service – Now in Upper Lighthorne
The Parenting Project are delighted to share that their Counselling Service is now offering free 1:1 counselling for parents and carers at a new venue in Upper Lighthorne
They offer up to 18 weekly sessions with a counsellor. The service is available to parents and carers of children aged 0-19 (or up to 25 SEND) living in Warwickshire.
Counselling can help with a wide range of difficulties-from managing stress, anxiety or low mood, to coping with relationship difficulties, bereavement, or the ups and downs of family life. It can also provide support for those who have experienced challenges in the past, during childhood, or who simply need a safe space to talk and be heard without judgement.
For more information and to complete the online referral form visit: parentingproject.org.uk/services/counselling [parentingproject.org.uk] or contact at counselling@parentingproject.org.uk
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Recovery & Wellbeing Academy Courses Available: October 2025
The Academy offers a wide range of courses and workshops designed to empower your mental health and wellbeing, provided by a number of partner organisations working together
Courses are delivered face to face and online via Zoom. All Academy courses and workshops are completely FREE OF CHARGE and open to anyone over the age of 18 living in Coventry and Warwickshire who wants to better manage or understand their mental health and wellbeing.
To book visit: https://www.recoveryandwellbeing.co.uk/
winter vaccinations 2025
We are now gearing up to deliver Flu & COVID Vaccinations this winter - and those who are eligible will be able to have both vaccines at the same time
Flu vaccine eligibility:
From 1st September 2025:
pregnant women
all children aged 2 or 3 years on 31 August 2025
primary school aged children (from Reception to Year 6)
secondary school aged children (from Year 7 to Year 11)
all children in clinical risk groups aged from 6 months to less than 18 years
From 1st October 2025:
those aged 65 years and over
those aged 18 years to under 65 years in clinical risk groups (as defined by the Green Book, Influenza chapter 19 )
those in long-stay residential care homes
carers in receipt of carer’s allowance, or those who are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person
close contacts of immunocompromised individuals
front-line workers in a social care setting without an employer led occupational health scheme including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those that are employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets, such as Personal Assistants
Covid Vaccine eligibility
The eligibility for covid vaccines this year has changed, the focus of the programme is shifting towards targeted vaccination of those at highest risk of serious disease
For autumn 2025, COVID-19 vaccination will be offered to:
adults aged 75 years and over
residents in care homes for older adults
individuals who are immunosuppressed aged 6 months and over
We understand that having a weakened immune system (immunosuppression) is a lot less straight forward than the other criteria, so we've listed some of the groups here:
Organ, bone marrow or stem cell transplant patients
Those being treated with systemic steroids for more than a month
Those living with HIV
Those receiving immunosuppressive or immunomodulating biological therapy, including children who are about to receive therapy
Those undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy
Those requiring long-term treatment for immunosuppression
Those with a history of haematological malignancy including chronic leukaemia, lymphomas, and leukaemia
Those with genetic disorders affecting the immune system
ST WULFSTAN FLU & COVID CLINICS 2025
27th September - 9am-1pm - FLU VACCINATIONS ONLY
CLINIC FOR PREGNANT LADIES & CHILDREN 2-3 YEARS OLD4th October - 9am-4pm - FLU & COVID VACCINATIONS
11th October - 9am-4pm - FLU & COVID VACCINATIONS
18th October - 9am-1pm - FLU & COVID VACCINATIONS
25th October - 9am-4pm - FLU & COVID VACCINATIONS
If you are eligible for the flu and/or covid vaccinations, you will receive an NHS App/SMS message or letter from St Wulfstan Surgery to inform you of this and to invite you to book an appointment.
Appointments can be booked:
Through the text message
By calling reception on 01926 810939, option 1
Emergency Alerts Test Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm
The Emergency Alerts system is used to warn if there’s a danger to life nearby, including extreme weather
Since the first national test of the system in April 2023, five alerts have been sent, including during major storms when lives were at risk. The government will be running a second national test on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm
When it is tested (and used live time) it will send a loud, siren-like sound and a distinct vibration to all mobile phones, we just wanted to make you aware that this will be happening.
Chicken Pox Vaccinations
The BBC have put out a news article about chicken pox vaccinations being added to the routine schedule from January 2026 - but this is not confirmed to be happening as yet
If and/or when it is added to the schedule then we will invite patient’s appropriately, please do not call the surgery requesting the vaccination for your child.
Recovery & Wellbeing Academy courses available - September 2025
Recovery Academy is pleased to confirm that several more dates have been added for delivery of courses/workshops during september, and attached is their revised monthly schedule to show you which courses are available
The Academy offers a wide range of trauma informed courses and workshops designed to empower your mental health and wellbeing, provided by a number of Partner organisations working together. Courses are delivered face to face and via online group sessions and are completely FREE OF CHARGE.
The courses are open to anyone over the age of 18 living in Coventry and Warwickshire who wants to better manage or understand their health and wellbeing.
Can't decide which course you want to do?
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of courses on offer, you can send them a message through their contact form to request guidance here:
Digital Cervical Screening results launching September 2025
From September, the NHS plans to start sending digital results from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme, utilising the NHS App
In September, those who have a negative test result will be notified of this by an NHS App message. It will also appear as an NHS App notification. If the NHS App message isn’t read within 72 hours, a letter will be sent as a failsafe.
Abnormal result letters will continue, for the time being, to be sent by post.