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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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are around 100,000 strokes in England, Scotland and Wales every year. As well as 33,000 stroke-related deaths each year, thousands more are left with life-changing disabilities.The F.A.S.T. (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) acronym provides a memorable way of identifying the most common signs of a stroke and emphasises the importance of acting quickly by calling 999. Think and ...

Residents of Maidenhead, that are registered with a Maidenhead GP practice, requiring same day urgent care for both minor illness and minor injuries can be seen locally in Maidenhead at St Mark’s Hospital. People with minor illnesses such as chest infections, skin infections, or urinary tract infections, or injuries, such as cuts and grazes, minor burns or minor head injuries, ...

A new app, getUBetter, has been launched across Frimley Health and Care to help patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and conditions manage their symptoms at home. Designed by clinicians in Emergency Care and checked by multiple GP’s, Physiotherapists and Orthopaedic Consultants, it delivers evidence-based advice to patients so they have the right information to help th ...