*Please consult your GP if you have any health concerns
- Don’t miss your booked appointments – ring up and cancel if you can’t attend.
- Take up free screening when offered e.g. breast screening, prostate screening, cervical screening, bowel cancer screening etc.
- Use the text reminder service – Let your GP Surgery, hospital and dentist know if you change your mobile phone number
- Take up your free Flu / pneumonia immunisations if you are eligible
- Get your child vaccinated with free childhood vaccines offered by your GP
- Consult your GP before you travel abroad about travel vaccinations
- Ensure repeat prescriptions are requested in time so that you don’t run out
- Stock your medicine cupboard with essentials such as paracetamol, Calpol®, antacids and diarrhoea tablets
- Seek advice from your pharmacist at the first sign of illness – most pharmacists are highly qualified health care professionals who can advise you on using medicine safely as well as offer quick, confidential advice on a range of common illnesses such as:-
◎ Coughs, colds and sore throats
◎ Tummy trouble
◎ Aches and pains
◎ Earaches
◎ Cystitis
◎ Teething
◎ Red eye
- Use the NHS 111 service for health advice and accessing the GP out of hours service
- Call 999 only in an emergency such as:-
◎ Chest pains
◎ Severe breathing difficulties
◎ Severe blood loss
◎ choking
◎ black outs
- When to go to A & E
◎ Loss of consciousness
◎ Acute confused state and fits that are not stopping
◎ Breathing difficulties
◎ Severe bleeding that cannot be stopped
◎ Severe allergic reactions
◎ Severe burns or scalds
◎ Stroke
◎ Major trauma such as a road traffic accident