The Healthier Together App: Support, Advice and Reassurance for Parents The Healthier Together App gives parents and guardians help, advice and reassurance when worried about their child. The app and website have been developed specifically for the North East, and provide clear, reliable advice from trusted NHS sources. How it works Here’s how it works … Continued
Our First Learning Disability Patient and Carer Event During the summer, we held our first network-wide Learning Disability Patient and Career event. One of our goals as a group of 7 GP practices in Gosforth and Jesmond is to reduce health inequalities and help make sure that all patients can easily and comfortably get the … Continued
Vaccines: Hundreds of years in the making, Millions of lives saved We’ve probably all heard more about vaccines over the past three years than ever before. Developing and delivering the COVID-19 vaccine was essential to our route out of the pandemic and back into normal life. Yet vaccines are not something new, and they are … Continued
Introducing Homeshare UK North East Homeshare UK North East is a charitable organisation that tackles isolation among older people and helps young people with safe, affordable accommodation. Homeshare recently presented their service at a local NHS training event, and we wanted to share it with you. Read on to find out more. Could Homeshare help … Continued
Make No Smoking Day 2023 the day you quit for good The message on No Smoking Day 20233 is this: today is the day to give up smoking for good. While quitting can feel stressful in the short term, research shows that once you’re past the withdrawal stage, your mental health also improves. Today is … Continued
Care Navigation: Getting you to the right person to help We all know that when we are feeling unwell or need support, we want to get to the right person to help as soon as possible. We want that for patients too, and Care Navigation in GP practices and in the wider NHS was introduced … Continued
Small changes can make a big difference to a healthy heart October has been National Cholesterol Month. It’s all about raising awareness and importance of maintaining a healthy cholesterol level. Small changes can make a big difference to your cholesterol levels and heart health through your habit, diet and exercise. What is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a … Continued
How PCNs work with GP practices to benefit patients When the NHS introduced Primary Care Networks in 2019, part of their aim was to keep our GP practices at the heart of primary care. The PCN system has provided flexibility for practices to shape the care and services they offer to meet their patients’ specific, … Continued
Digital Access: Getting the help you need from wherever you are More and more of our lives are being lived online. Even before the pandemic introduced us to Zoom calls and video chats, the number of people using the internet for everyday tasks surged. By February of 2020, 96% of all households in this country … Continued
Health and Wellbeing Services for people in North Gosforth
