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Stay Well This Winter
Winter is a busy time for the NHS and while it’s important to come forward with any health concerns, you can help ease the pressure by choosing the right service.
Knowing the right place to go when you need help will help you find the treatment you need, faster.
Make sure your medicine cabinet is stocked with the basic essentials, such as paracetamol, ibuprofen, cold remedies, indigestion treatment and antihistamine, and by ordering repeat prescriptions in good time so that you don't run out.
Now is good time to make sure you have had your Covid-19 and flu jabs if you are eligible. Find more information at GetVaccinatedNow.co.uk
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Winter is a busy time for the NHS and while it’s important to come forward with any health concerns, you can help ease the pressure by choosing the right service.
Knowing the right place to go when you need help will help you find the treatment you need, faster.
Make sure your medicine cabinet is stocked with the basic essentials, such as paracetamol, ibuprofen, cold remedies, indigestion treatment and antihistamine, and by ordering repeat prescriptions in good time so that you don't run out.
Now is good time to make sure you have had your Covid-19 and flu jabs if you are eligible. Find more information at GetVaccinatedNow.co.uk
Get advice from your pharmacist at the first sign of feeling ill – don’t wait for it to get more serious.
Highly trained pharmacists can help with a number of common health conditions such as sore throats, colds and bites.
When you need medical help fast but it is not an emergency, visit 111.nhs.uk or call the NHS free phone number 111.
If you contact NHS 111, you will be assessed, given advice and, if needed, directed to the most appropriate health service.
Urgent treatment centres and minor injuries units are equipped to diagnose and deal with many of the most common ailments people attend emergency departments for, including sprains, minor burns, and minor illness.
Patients can visit a centre without an appointment if they have an urgent condition that needs to be seen on the same day.
The Stop Think Choose website lists a range of treatment options, including a map of pharmacies and details of urgent care services in Kent and Medway. Visit StopThinkChoose.co.uk to find out more.
e from your pharmacist at the first sign of feeling ill – don’t wait for it to get more serious.
Highly trained pharmacists can help with a number of common health conditions such as sore throats, colds and bites.
When you need medical help fast but it is not an emergency, visit 111.nhs.uk or call the NHS free phone number 111.
If you contact NHS 111, you will be assessed, given advice and, if needed, directed to the most appropriate health service.
Urgent treatment centres and minor injuries units are equipped to diagnose and deal with many of the most common ailments people attend emergency departments for, including sprains, minor burns, and minor illness.
Patients can visit a centre without an appointment if they have an urgent condition that needs to be seen on the same day.
The Stop Think Choose website lists a range of treatment options, including a map of pharmacies and details of urgent care services in Kent and Medway. Visit StopThinkChoose.co.uk to find out more.
Published on 6th Dec 2024
Feeling Good App
We are excited to be sharing a fantastic digital solution for improving mental health and wellbeing that our PCN has been selected to be trialling.
The app is audio, simple and effective for depression, anxiety and sleep
The Feeling Good App contains the evidence-based audio programme Feeling Good for Life, which is the new name for Positive Mental Training, a series of 12 audio tracks to help you build essential skills, not only to deal with mental stresses and strains, but to bounce forwards and become mentally stronger and more resilient. There are other modules on the app, all contain the same beginning tracks from Feeling Good for Life.
This programme can help relax & calm your mind and body, lift your mood, help you feel more positive, let go of worries, sleep better and deal with stresses more easily. It can also help with physical symptoms of stress, such as headaches, irritable bowel, fatigue, and chronic pain. It can improve your ability to focus on a task, to feel positive about yourself when talking to others, to perform at your best when you need to.
Click here for more information
Published on 22nd Dec 2023
BetterCare Support
Kent County Council has launched BetterCare Support - an online self-assessment tool, to enable people to live independently and safely within their communities and home. By answering questions about their social care needs, the tool provides people with information, advice, and guidance about the options and services available to them.
You can find other online resources below.
· Social care and health - Kent County Council
· Adult social care and health procedures, practice guidance and tools
Published on 11th Dec 2023
Dementia Support Group
We are excited to offer Dementia drop in sessions, they are being run for you to meet up with the Dementia Coordinator and our Community Practitioners for support and information on all aspect of dementa, including finances, social care and link in with the memory clinic. They will take place every 4th Wednesday of the month at Woodlands Arts Centre Gillingham Kent ME7 2DU.
For more information please click here.
Published on 11th Dec 2023