Further Updated Practice Statement: Medical Records Over the last month, there have been several changes and updates to NHS England’s plan to change how patients can access their medical records. It centres around a proposed change to automatically give all patients full access to their prospective (or future) medical records. This change was due to … Continued
Job Vacancy: Social Prescribing Link Worker Gosforth And Jesmond Health are recruiting for a Social Prescribing Link Worker to join the North Gosforth team. Role Social Prescribing Link Worker Location GP Practices in North Gosforth Working Pattern Full-time Contract Permanent Salary Band 5 Salary £27,055 to £32,934 a year Apply Via NHS Jobs (reference A5457-22-4389) … Continued
Healthier Together: Trusted NHS Advice Parents and Caregivers in the North East Healthier Together is an NHS website and smartphone app designed specifically for parents and caregivers in the North East and North Cumbria. The aim is to improve the health of babies, children and young people with advice, helpful resources and information directly from … Continued
This May Help – Children’s Mental Health Advice aimed at Parents and Carers This week has seen the launch of This May Help, a new national initiative providing mental health advice to parents and carers. This May Help is aimed at parents and carers who may have concerns about their child’s mental health and is part funded by the … Continued
Final Flu Clinic this Saturday, 26th November This Saturday – 26th November – we will be holding our last flu clinic of the year. All eligible adults can attend and can book via the link in the text message you will have received. All adults aged 50 or over – or will be 50 by … Continued
Mental Health: Help and Support when you need it If you or someone you are concerned about needs help with their mental health, then we have support and resources to help. Each image below links to a resource or support information on our website that can help. If you are in crisis If you are … Continued
Updated Practice Statement: Medical Records would like to issue an update on proposed changes to access to medical records as there have been developments since our initial statement early last week. The proposal was that all patients would have complete prospective access to their medical records from 1st November. As we said last week, significant … Continued
Unfortunately, we are experiencing problems with our phone system again this morning, causing calls to cut out. We apologise again for this inconvenience. In the meantime we would advise patients to send us requests via Salvie. We will update again as the situation changes.
Movember: Changing the face of Men’s health Since 2003, ‘Movember’ has encouraged people to grow moustaches throughout November to raise funds and awareness about different aspects of Men’s Health. A registered charity, Movember has funded more than 1,250 projects worldwide, designed to transform how health services reach and support men. The main aim is to … Continued
Statement: Medical Records You may be aware that NHS England has determined that from 1st November 2022 all patients will have complete prospective access to their medical records, with surgeries being required to enable this en masse. This instruction also includes automatically provisioning prospective access for patients who turn 16 years of age. Whilst we … Continued
