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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 ...

NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust are preparing for consultant doctor and junior doctor strikes in September.  Consultant doctors will strike between 7am on 19 September and 7am on 21 September. Junior doctors will strike between 7am on 20 September and 7am on 23 September. For the first time in NHS history, junior doctors and co ...

Climate change poses a major threat to our health as well as our planet. The environment is changing, that change is accelerating, and this has direct and immediate consequences for patients, the public and the NHS. Frimley Health and Care’s green plan has a vision to: 'improve the health and wellbeing of local people whilst reducing environmental impact to net zero and outli ...

Staff at NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board – the organisation responsible for NHS functions within the wider Frimley Integrated Care System – have voted to make Slough social change enterprise Together As One (formerly known as Aik Saath) its Charity of the Year. Together As One have been working with children and young people since 1998 when a mediation project was establishe ...