Salt Hill Vaccination Centre will be closing from midday on the 26 August 2022. We are pleased to announce from early September there will instead, be two new GP led vaccination sites in Slough. These will be located in Weekes Drive Surgery, 100 Weekes Drive, Slough SL1 2YP Bharani Medical Centre,16-18 Lansdowne Ave, Slough SL1 3SJ Langley Health Centre, Common Rd, La ...
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Have your blood pressure checked this summer
Nationally an estimated 4.7 million adults live with undiagnosed high BP, greatly increasing their risk of a devastating stroke or heart attack. If you're aged 18 and over and live in Surrey Heath or Bracknell Forest, you can have your blood pressure checked this Know Your Numbers week for free between the 9th - 12th September at one of our pop up locations. Qualified heal ...
Who's in Charge? - A new campaign to keep young babies safe
A new campaign launches today across Frimley Health and Care – covering East Berkshire, Surrey Heath, Farnham and North East Hampshire - aimed at reducing sudden and unexpected deaths in infancy. “Who’s in Charge?” is a response to the latest figures published by the Government, showing that babies dying suddenly and unexpectedly represent one of the largest groups of cases no ...
New community-led wellbeing initiatives announced in the Royal Borough
Nine community groups in the Royal Borough have been awarded more than £35,000 in funding between them, to launch community-led initiatives supporting the health and wellbeing of local residents. The Innovation Funding Project, managed by the council and NHS Frimley, invited groups and individuals to apply for one-off grants of up to £5,000. This is the first round of grants ...
Local Pharmacies - part of the NHS in your community
Every week, more than 865,000 people visit their community pharmacy for advice about medical symptoms, while a further 251,000 get help with existing medical conditions. Despite this, many people still think of the pharmacy as simply a place to collect prescriptions and pick up over-the-counter healthcare items. Local pharmacies are pillars of the healthcare community. Phar ...
New plan to transform dementia care in Surrey
A five-point plan sets out to improve the lives of Surrey residents with dementia and their families. The joint health and social care dementia strategy, outlines an ambition for everyone with dementia and their carers to live in dementia-friendly communities and be able to live well at home for as long as possible. Research suggests that approximately 17,700 people in Surrey ...
A new structure to health and care from today - 1st July, 2022
Integrated Care Systems now have legal powers and responsibilities as they work to improve the health and wellbeing of their residents by bringing health and social care together. Newly created structures will oversee different functions of the systems, ensuring the community and voluntary sector, local authority and NHS are all represented. The aim of the new way of working ...
NHS top doctor rallies remaining people due a spring booster ahead of final COVID jab drive
England’s leading NHS medic is urging those eligible for a spring booster but yet to come forward to take up the offer as soon as possible as a quarter of a million reminders go out before the end of the month. The largest and fastest vaccination programme in NHS history has now invited everyone eligible for a spring booster and more than four in five people have already had t ...
NHS appeals to ease A&E pressure
Joint statement from Frimley Health and Care ICS and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust:The NHS is appealing for the local community to consider whether alternative health services can meet their needs before attending the Emergency Departments (A&Es) in Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital. The appeal has been made after both hospitals have seen unprecedented nu ...
Vaccination service in running for national title after winning regional award
A local Covid-19 vaccination service has been named the regional winner of a national award and is now a finalist for the national title. The Surrey Heath vaccination service took the South East Region honours in the Covid response category of the 2022 NHS Parliamentary Awards for the way different organisations came together to support their community. Team members are now w ...