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Have you explored our website?
Last year, as part of a project across Jesmond Lower Gosforth we launched new websites for Jesmond Health Partnership and our neighbouring practices.
Since then, we’ve seen more and more patients using our site for health information, getting in touch, and using the NHS’s digital services, like ordering prescriptions through the NHS App.
In recent months it’s been great to see our News pages getting an increasing number of views as we continue to share up-to-date information, advice and guidance on how to use the NHS and proactively manage your health.
We thought it would be helpful to share a few quick suggestions on what there is on parts of our site and how to find information relevant to you. Scroll through below or hop to sections with the buttons.
Latest News
Our news page is where we post updates on health conditions, general guidance on getting the best health care possible, and the work of our Primary Care Network team.
The most recent posts appear in the news section on our home page, or you can explore our full news archive.
Here are some of our most recent updates.
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Are You Getting the Most from the NHS App?
Are You Getting the Most from the NHS App? More patients are now using the NHS App to manage their healthcare. For many, it starts with something simple – ordering repeat prescriptions without needing to phone the practice or visit in person. But that is just the start. Once you are set up, the NHS…
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Keeping safe as the temperature rises ๐ฅต
Keeping safe as the temperature rises ๐ฅต While it’s not quite as hot in the North East as other parts of the country, temperatures of 29ยฐC in Newcastle are still enough to make us feel unwell if we’re not careful. Even short spells of warm weather can affect your health, especially if you are not used…
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New Vaccine Offers Young People Extra Protection against Meningitis
New Vaccine Offers Young People Extra Protection against Meningitis A new NHS vaccine will help protect young people againstย MenB, a serious infection that can causeย meningitis and sepsis (blood poisoning). This vaccine is being offered to eligible young people before they start university or further education. Important: This vaccine programme will begin in July. It is being…
Categories and Keywords
To save you from having to scroll through all our updates to find what you’re after, there are ways to get there quicker.
We use some simple category names to group news posts together. So if you are looking for the latest on mental health or health and wellbeing, just pick an option from the drop-down menu to get your news.
If you’re looking for something more specific, try the keyword search option. This will look through all our posts, checking the headlines, section names, text and keywords we’ve added and show you the results.
At the end of each post, we might suggest other pieces of content based on the subject matter.
Resources
As you’d expect, our resource page is packed with all sorts of useful information. But did you know there are three different ways to find what you are looking for?
Categories
First, there are the categories. Like with the news posts, these group together pieces of information.
We’ve tried to make these categories as sensible as possible – either describing you or a particular situation. Hopefully, this makes it easy to find relevant information, even if you might not know it’s name.
Here’s an example: The Little Orange Book is a fantastic resource for new parents, with practical advice about common conditions up to the age of 5.
But if you didn’t know that, you wouldn’t know to search for the words ‘little orange book’.
By categorising it under children’s health and parenthood, it makes a helpful resource much easier to find.
You can see some of the resources in the parenthood category below.
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Directory: Children and Young People
Resources and advice for families, children and young people. Thanks to InformationNOW for compiling much of this information.
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Better Health โ Start for Life
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Drop in for Dads
Drop in for Dads This week is the first Drop-in for Dads – a new drop-in health clinic for Dads and Male carers. Why not pop along to Byker Sands Family Centre from 3 pm on Tuesdays? You can ask questions, get your baby weighed, and see what support is out there for the challenges that parenthood…
Types
Another way we’ve tried to make it easier to find what you need, is to group resources by type.
So, for instance, if you are looking for some self-help, an easy-read guide, our policies or some specially created video content walking you through how to use the NHS App.
These are some video resources.
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Breast Screening (British Sign Language)
A new film that focuses on screening for women with learning disabilities
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Check your Symptoms using NHS 111 online or in the NHS App
Check your Symptoms using NHS 111 online or in the NHS App If you need urgent medical help but you’re not sure where to go, use NHS 111 to get assessed and directed to the right place for you. Call, go online or use the NHS App. From the homepage, tap on the Services icon…
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Contact your GP Practice on the NHS App
Contact your GP Practice on the NHS App You may be able to use the NHS App to contact your GP surgeon about documents like fit notes or an update on a test result. Not got the NHS App yet, or need a hand getting started?
Keyword search
Lastly, of course, you can still use the keyword search option, which, like the news posts, will trawl through titles, headings and content to bring you relevant results.
Our Team
When we surveyed patients as part of building our new sites, a lot of people said they wanted to get to know the staff team a bit better.
The Our People page is home to staff profiles. Here you can see our practice and network teams, and find out more about their roles and how they help patients.
You can use the Job Role filter to find everyone in the same position or the Specialisms filter to see what your clinical team are experts in.
Here are some of the most recent updates on our staff pages.
What do you think?
We built our new websites to do what patients said they wanted and to help our practice and network teams.
Why not take our quick survey and let us know how we did?