NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust are asking residents to be prepared and play their part by taking steps ahead of the Bank Holiday and into the following week, when the junior doctors strike will commence. Things people can do include know where they can seek support if unwell and recognise there is likely to be disruption and pres ...
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Improving access to Op COURAGE NHS veterans’ mental health services
Mental health services for military veterans across the South East are coming together under one single service, with one team handling referrals across the region from 1 April. One single service Op COURAGE the NHS Veterans’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Service is the overarching name for three specialist NHS services for veterans: NHS Veterans' Mental Health Transition, I ...
Local volunteers support patients at Wexham Park Hospital
This week (27 – 31 March), volunteers from across Slough are at Wexham Park Hospital to support Frimley Health and Care’s Multi Agency Discharge Event (MADE)*. #OneSlough volunteers are on the hospital wards and at the main reception to raise awareness and link patients and carers to the range of additional support services available to them in the community. Bilingual volunt ...
NHS reminds the public to be prepared for Bank Holiday weekend
Whether you’re home or away this Easter Bank Holiday, Frimley Health and Care ICS is reminding residents to ensure medication and repeat prescriptions are ordered and collected early as GP surgeries and most pharmacies will be closed throughout the Bank holiday weekend (7-10 April). People can order prescriptions in their usual way and the NHS App also enables patients to requ ...
“It’s good news all round!” - Maidenhead MP Theresa May visits the Urgent Primary Care Service at St Mark’s Hospital
On Tuesday 14 March 2023, Theresa May MP visited the Maidenhead Urgent Primary Care Service to see improvements to the way same day minor injury and minor illness are being treated locally. Mrs May said: “I enjoyed visiting the new Urgent Primary Care Service at St Marks. I’m pleased to say this is providing a much improved service for local people. The number of patients that ...
Emergency care across the South East will have to be prioritised during biggest strike disruption to date
Emergency, urgent and critical care will be prioritised by the NHS this week as strike action by junior doctors across the South East will see major disruption of services, with thousands of patients facing postponements to routine care. Industrial action by junior doctors part of the BMA and the HCSA is set to begin on Monday 13 March at all trusts in England for 72 hours – t ...
Living well with a lung condition
One in five people in England are living with a lung condition and around 10,000 people in the UK are newly diagnosed with a lung disease every week. If you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, there are small things that you can do, to help you stay well and live well. The Frimley Health and Care respiratory network, has been working hard to support lo ...
Slough Community Directory launches 8 March 2023
Slough residents can now find activities and services all in one place on an online directory. The Wellbeing for Slough Community Directory launched on 8 March at this year’s Social Prescribing Day. The initial idea for the project arose at last year’s event which brings together the voluntary and statutory sectors, to discuss a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. Coun ...
Look Good Feel Better - Skincare & Makeup Workshops
Step by step advice on skincare and makeup application. Learn practical tips and techniques, including how to enhance sparse eyebrows or loss of eyelashes, to help you look and feel like you again. Face to Face sessions Join us on: Thursday 16th March 2023 10am - 12 noon Seminar Room 2Post Graduate Centre (Gate 4)Wexham Park Hospital To book your place, please contact ...
Your next poo could save your life!
The mother of Deborah Anne James, who sadly lost her life to bowel cancer, is backing the launch of a new NHS campaign which urges anyone who receives a bowel cancer home testing kit to use and return it. Heather James is pleased to be supporting the latest phase of the NHS’s Help Us to Help You campaign called ‘Life Saving Poo’ as she said it’s something Deborah would have wh ...