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Frimley Health and Care is this week launching its Online Community Panel and is recruiting now! We know that working in partnership with patients, carers, families and local people brings a different perspective to our understanding and can challenge our view of how we think services are received and should be delivered in the future. The Frimley Health and Care online panel ...

Junior doctors and consultants in England are taking joint strike action from 7am 2 October – 7am 5 October, with NHS leaders warning the impact will be very challenging for local services. NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Frimley Health NHS Foundation are grateful to people for their support during the several periods of industrial action seen so far this year, and ...

GPs across East Berkshire, Surrey Heath, North East Hampshire and Farnham are leading the way on referrals for patients with possible bowel cancer. A higher proportion of people being asked by GPs to use preliminary home testing kits are doing so locally than anywhere else in the country. The results of the Faecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) mean cancers can be detected sooner ...

On 20th September, 2023, an online public engagement and information event was held to raise awareness and support people to be able to manage their blood pressure. Looking after yourself: a focus on high blood pressure, was aimed at members of the public, to help them understand blood pressure, what it means to have high blood pressure, what causes it and what can help to man ...

This week, we are raising awareness of the ReSPECT process. ReSPECT stands for Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment. We know it’s hard to think about planning for a clinical emergency in the last year of life when you are feeling well, but preparing for a crisis before it happens helps to ensure your wishes are followed appropriately. Being proactive and c ...

On Tuesday, 19th September, NHS Frimley (Integrated Care Board) held its Annual General Meeting, covering the final three months of NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group and then the first nine months of NHS Frimley. Board members outlined some of the key achievements during the year 2022/23 and spoke of the challenges that were faced over the year, as well as also highligh ...

A brand new £25 million state-of-the-art NHS diagnostic centre is planned for Slough in 2025, and local people are invited to have their say on the proposals. The new Slough community diagnostic centre (CDC) will be developed on an unused area of the Upton Hospital site as a new standalone facility. It follows national investment and is part of a network of facilities across t ...

Youth Mental Health Day, Tuesday 19 September, encourages understanding and discussion of mental health in young people, enabling them to live happy and healthy lives all year round. Each year, the awareness day aims to get young people, and those who support them, talking about how to improve mental health, combat the stigma surrounding anxiety and mental health and highlight ...

NHS Frimley is delighted to report that our Chief Medical Officer, Dr Lalitha Iyer, has won the 'Woman of the Year' award at the 21st Asian Achievers Awards and the ‘Health Hero’ Award from the Asian Professionals National Alliance (APNA) NHS, over the course of the weekend 15-16 September 2023. The Asian Achievers Awards are the UK’s most prominent and longstanding celebratio ...

Millions of eligible people in England can book their life-saving autumn Covid vaccine online from today (18 September) as the NHS steps up its winter vaccination programmes early in response to the risk of the new Covid variant.   Anyone eligible can book their Covid vaccinations via the NHS website, by downloading the NHS App, or by calling 119 for free if they can’t get on ...