Dacorum Feeling Unwell? Which NHS Service So Why Not Add Is Right for You? It to Your Basket When You Do Your Weekly Shop?
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Add it to your shopping basket Healthy NHS Hertfordshire spends around £9 million each year on medicines for things like headaches, hayfever, indigestion, colds, help on the coughs, flu, constipation and diarrhoea. These medicines can be High Street bought easily and usually cheaply “over the counter” from your local pharmacy, supermarket or store. The money that the NHS spends on these medicines is money that cannot be used to help patients with more complex health problems. Dacorum Feeling unwell? Which NHS service So why not add is right for you? it to your basket when you do your weekly shop? Pharmacists are experts in medicines and minor illnesses. They can give you advice on lots of common health problems, for example emergency contraception and many can help you to give up smoking and can advise you on how to lead a healthier life. Most now have a private consultation room where you can speak to your pharmacist without other people hearing. In Hertfordshire we have more than 200 pharmacies and several open early (around 7am) and close late (around 11pm). You can find out where these are by visiting www.nhs.uk/find and selecting the If you would like a copy of this document in large print, Braille, on “find a service” option or you can phone NHS Direct on0845 46 47 CD or as an audio file, or if you would like this information explained who will help you find the one nearest to where you are. in another language please telephone 01707 369705. You don’t need to make an appointment to speak to the pharmacist. Find out which NHS services are available in The NHS belongs to us all. Let’s use it right. your area. Go to www.wheredoigo.org.uk www.hertfordshire.nhs.uk Find your local NHS service Self-care NHS Direct Self-care is the best choice to treat very For health information and advice 24 hours minor illnesses and injuries. For conditions a day, contact NHS Direct on 0845 46 47 like backache, earache, coughs and or visit www.nhs.uk colds, you are best off looking after Hemel Hempstead Luton yourself to begin with, then seeking help if your condition doesn’t improve. To find out more about other health services in the area including dentists, opticians and how NHS walk in centre Your GP to registerwith a GP visit www.nhs.uk/find Luton Walk-in Centre Your GP can help with a range of 14-16 Chapel Street conditions such as illness or pain that West Herts Medical Centre Luton LU1 2SE Pharmacist won’t go away, recurrent coughs or sore Hemel Hempstead Hospital 01582 556400 Visit your pharmacist when you are throats, vomiting/diarrhoea, abdominal Hillfield Road Open 8am-8pm every day suffering from common health problems pains, skin problems such as eczema, Hemel Hempstead HP2 4AD MILTON that do not need to be seen by a nurse migraine/headache, recurrent back 03000 33 22 33 A&E/emergency department BEDFORDSHIRE or doctor, like colds, coughs, aches and KEYNES pain, wound re-dressing, mental health www.westhertsmedicalcentre.nhs.uk Luton and Dunstable Hospital indigestion. Pharmacists can give you problems, travel immunisations and mild Open 8am-8pm every day Lewsey Road advice on a range of medicines and breathing problems. Many surgeries offer Luton LU4 0DZ treatments that you can buy over the appointments early in the morning, in Urgent Care Centre Open 24 hours a day, every day counter to help relieve your symptoms. the evening or on a Saturday morning. Hemel Hempstead Hospital Contact your practice for more information Hillfield Road St Albans on extended opening hours and for Hemel Hempstead HP2 4AD details of all the services they offer. Open 24 hours a day, every day Minor Injuries Unit BUCKINGHAMSHIRE If you need a GP in the evening, at St Albans City Hospital Luton Minor injuries unit For injuries like sprains, cuts, grazes, bites, the weekend or on a public holiday Waverley Road Surrounding areas HERTFORDSHIRE strings, burns and scalds. Walk-in service. St Albans AL3 5PN Aylesbury No appointment needed. If you need to see a doctor when your 01727 897182 surgery is closed and you cannot wait Aylesbury Open 9am-8pm, every day Urgent care centre until it opens you should telephone except Christmas Day 03000 333 333. You will either be given St Albans Treats sprains, strains, fractures, wounds, A&E/emergency department X-rays 9am-5pm, Mon to Fri advice over the phone on how to look after burns, scalds, minor head injuries, bites, Stoke Mandeville Hospital Can treat children aged over 2 years. Hemel symptoms, be asked to come into your stings, cuts and grazes. Has X-ray. Can Mandeville Road nearest out of hours centre (you will be told Hempstead treat infants and children. Walk-in service. Aylesbury HP21 8AL where this is) or receive a home visit from a Open 24 hours a day, every day Watford No appointment needed. Watford doctor or nurse. A&E/emergency department NHS walk-in service Watford General Hospital For services including blood pressure Medical centre Vicarage Road Open 8am to 8pm every day for a full checks, contraceptive advice and Watford WD18 0HB range of GP services or for the occasional emergency contraception prescriptions, Open 24 hours a day, every day appointment. You do not have to be dressing care, bites and stings, minor cuts registered there. GREATER LONDON and wounds, minor eye infections, muscle and joint injuries and skin conditions. The NHS provides a wide range of services, from pharmacists, to GPs, to urgent care centres and hospitals. It is important that we know which service is the right In an emergency: A&E/emergency departments are for people with critical or life-threatening conditions. one to use when we are unwell. Open the page to find out what each service does. Only call 999 if someone has a suspected heart attack, lost consciousness, a suspected stroke, severe burns, a severe allergic reaction, lost a lot of blood, difficulty breathing. To find out more about other health services in the Remember, A&E is for serious or life-threatening conditions only. area including GPs and dentists visit www.nhs.uk/find.