NHS App guidance
The NHS app allows you to: order repeat prescriptions, view your GP records and test results, quickly check symptoms, view upcoming GP appointments, contact your GP practice online
Advice and Information
Jess's Rule - life-saving patient safety initiative
Patients with a potentially deadly illness will be diagnosed sooner thanks to this new life-saving patient safety initiative that was rolled out nationwide on 23rd September 2025 to prevent avoidable deaths. GPs across England to take ‘3 strikes and rethink approach’ after 3 appointments.
Blood Pressure Awareness and Checks Event
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board is hosting a Blood Pressure Awareness and Checks Event on:
🗓 Wednesday 22 October 2025
🕤 9:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Studio 2, Forest Hill Pools, Dartmouth Road, SE23 3HZ
🗓 Wednesday 22 October 2025
🕤 9:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Studio 2, Forest Hill Pools, Dartmouth Road, SE23 3HZ
Stay Well This Winter: A Guide for Families
Winter is the season of coughs, colds, and common illnesses.
We’re all more likely to get sick during the colder months, and it can be hard to know what to do when a family member isn’t feeling well 🤒.
This guide will help you decide when to treat symptoms at home 🏠 and when to seek medical advice 🩺.
Keep it somewhere safe so you can refer to it when you need it most.
We’re all more likely to get sick during the colder months, and it can be hard to know what to do when a family member isn’t feeling well 🤒.
This guide will help you decide when to treat symptoms at home 🏠 and when to seek medical advice 🩺.
Keep it somewhere safe so you can refer to it when you need it most.
Get your FREE flu and COVID-19 vaccines in Lewisham this autumn 2025! 🍂💉
For more information and to book your vaccinations, check out the poster below for local vaccination sites and booking links.
Stay protected, stay healthy ✅
Stay protected, stay healthy ✅
Phoenix Community Housing: Health and Wellbeing Fair
Phoenix Community Housing are hosting a free Health and Wellbeing fair, with access to health and wellbeing advice, careers support, fitness information, wellbeing activities and more! Healthwatch Lewisham will also be there on the day with an information stall.
Tell us your feedback, help NHS and social care to improve and ‘Win the price voucher’.
We are inviting feedback from Lewisham residents about their experience of GPs, Pharmacies, and local Hospitals.
South East London Childhood Immunisations
The best way to help protect your child against severe illness from polio, flu, measles, mumps, rubella, and other childhood diseases is to get them up to date with their routine vaccinations.
If you or your child are not registered with a GP, they can still get free vaccinations – contact a GP surgery.
If you or your child are not registered with a GP, they can still get free vaccinations – contact a GP surgery.
Wellbeing Map
An interactive Wellbeing Map packed with local activities, events and locations in South East London has been produced.
How GPs are set up - An explainer by King's Fund
King's Fund developed helpful information about how GPs in England are set up and commissioned.