Video: NHS Screening timeline
Video: NHS Screening timeline The NHS offers routine screening for a number of conditions throughout your life. This video timeline shows what you will be invited to be screened for and when.
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS)
Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) We are offering a new approach to improve access for patients to a same-day consultation with a healthcare professional. The aim is to direct patients to the most appropriate person to help them, which may be a GP or a community pharmacist. From November 2022, if your symptoms can be … Continued
Enhanced Access
Enhanced Access is a new provision of evening and weekend primary care appointments.
Screening Saves Lives
Health & Care Passport
Self-referral: Talking Therapies for Mental Health
Pharmacy prescription hub
What is the prescription hub? Selected GP practices have partnered with the pharmacy team at Newcastle Hospitals prescription hub. A team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will work on most of the non-urgent prescriptions for these practices; they are not based in the practice but will talk to practice staff regularly throughout the day. The partnership is … Continued
Home Visits
Home Visits If you are not fit to come to the surgery, the doctor may visit you at home. When possible, request home visits before 10:00. The receptionist will ask you one or two questions to assess the urgency of the call. This will help the doctor to decide the order of priority and to … Continued
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Medicines A-Z
Medicines A to Z Visit the Medicines A to Z page on the NHS website to find out about hundreds of types of medication.