Festive Logistics: Getting Prepared for Christmas and New Year The festive season can be incredibly busy. In amongst balancing any combination of work, Christmas parties, school plays, term dates, visiting friends and family and getting all your shopping done, it can be difficult to keep tabs on which day is which. This year, all the … Continued
Bereavement: Practical and emotional support at your time of loss Losing a loved one is never easy. Grieving the loss of a relative, friend or someone close to you is difficult enough on its own without the added stress of handling the logistics. Grief is both normal and highly personal, and there is no wrong … Continued
New Specialist Clinic for Children with Wheezes We have recently started a new clinic for children and young people with wheezes. Our network Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner, Catherine Leonard, will have regular Tuesday morning appointments for patients at all 7 GP practices in Gosforth and Jesmond. Catherine is part of our Same Day Access (SDA) … Continued
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
Supporting You After a Cancer Diagnosis It’s a sad fact that every year, 393,000 people in the UK are given the news that they have cancer. Macmillan Cancer Support says that 3 million people are living with cancer, with that number continuing to rise. While it is news nobody wants to hear, we want to … Continued
How to register and get full use of NHS App services The NHS App puts you in control, with access to a range of NHS services at your fingertips. Here’s how to get started. Ideas and guides on how to use the app and what benefits it can bring are further down the page. Installing … Continued
Prescribing Warmth This Winter With the clocks having changed and the weather cold and wet, many of us will already have decided to put our heating back on. Keeping our homes warm and feeling cosy and comfortable also helps keep us healthy as the temperatures outside drop. If you have asthma or another chronic condition … Continued
Seeing your medical records in the NHS App On 31st October, the government told all GP practices in England to give all patients aged 16 and over full access to their ‘prospective medical records’. This means all new and future information about your healthcare. We’ll explain what this means, the complicated background, and what you … Continued
Movember: Stopping Men from dying early On average, men die four and a half years earlier than women. Life expectancy in the UK is around 79 for men and over 83 for women. One in 5 men die before the age of 65. The reasons men die younger are often preventable. Every year, Movember challenges … Continued
Have you explored our website? Last year, as part of a project across we launched new websites for 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 … Continued