Month: June 2025

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro) is not currently available on the NHS anywhere for weight loss in Greater Manchester, including GP practices, hospitals, or specialist weight management services. Please do not contact us to request it — you’ll be contacted directly if you’re eligible if/when the service becomes available in your area.

Unfortunately due to poor uptake we have made the decision to cancel our Military Veteran Coffee Morning planned for Thursday 26.6.25 at Longshoot Health Centre

We would like to invite our Military Veterans for a brew and a chat with each other and our team, including our healthcare assistant, community link workers, care coordinators and mental health link worker. We will also have representatives from Wigan Council Be Well Team, We Are With You, as well as the primary care…

We are receiving many requests to prescribe weight loss injections (Mounjaro) or similar. Greater Manchester ICB, (the organisation responsible for overseeing NHS funding for practices in Wigan), has issued instructions that this medication cannot currently be prescribed for weight loss on the NHS. We do recognise that this is a frustrating situation for many patients…