Weight loss and Exercise

City of York Council (CYC) Health Trainers

The CYC health trainers offer free and confidential health and wellbeing support

They off one-to-one support and guidance, face-to-face or remotely, on the following:

healthy eating advice and weight management
finding new ways to be more active
quitting smoking
reducing your alcohol intake
helping you find groups and activities to get back out in the community

Self refer via their website.

parkrun

We are a #parkrunpractice - this is an initiative which enables GP practices to socially prescribe physical activity by referring patients to take part in a parkrun. You can read more about parkrun here.

There are three parkrun events in York based at: The Knavesmire (York parkrun), York Sport (Heslington parkrun) and at New Earswick sports club (New Earswick parkrun). Our staff are often found running a local parkrun at 9am every Saturday morning and we run volunteer takeover events.

5K Your Way: Move Against Cancer run a monthly support event at Heslington parkrun on the last Saturday of every month.

There is also a junior parkrun on Sunday mornings at 9am on The Knavesmire.

Better Health

The Healthwise program is for York residents or patients from a York GP surgery. It is designed to assist people who are currently inactive with medical conditions or other specialist requirements that prevent them from entering mainstream exercise.

For more information about how it works and what activities are available, visit their website.

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Priory Medical Group

We have received a number of queries relating to covid/flu vaccine clinics so have put together some FAQs as below.

2nd October 2023

Priory Medical Group

There are ongoing phone issues at Priory Medical Centre affecting incoming calls to the practice. We're experiencing an intermittent fault where the phones are connecting / disconnecting at regular intervals, when connection is lost its either cutting patients off or dropping the call for a period of time. X-on (our cloud based phone system provider) have been out and done a full investigation of the their equipment and have established that there is no issue with any of the hardware located on site, the issue is outside of the surgery and likely caused by a problem on the BT network, X-on have escalated the fault to BT and we're awaiting an update on this. Our patient central team have alternate arrangements in place, using other lines to support our patients who call us. If you are able please use the prioryCARE form to reduce the phone traffic through the practice where possible - you can request appointments, prescriptions, fit notes and much more. You can use the NHSapp to check results and much more. ➡️ https://access.klinik.co.uk/contact/priory-medical-group Our reception desks remain open (usual opening times on our website) - Victoria Way is closed this afternoon due to staff sickness. ➡️ https://www.priorymedical.com/our-surgeries/

2nd October 2023

Priory Medical Group

The practice inbound phone line issues remain this morning. Our provider, X-on, are trying to fix this as quickly as possible and we will keep you updated via social media. If you need to request an appointment, sick note, prescription etc please use the prioryCARE form if possible ➡️ https://access.klinik.co.uk/contact/priory-medical-group Our reception desks remain open (Park View closed this pm) but understandably the reception team are experiencing higher than average attendance so you may experience a wait.

29th September 2023