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Health services in SUDBURY AND GREAT CORNARD THE BEST OF HEALTH FOR WEST SUFFOLK 2 INTRODUCTION In this directory you can find information about: SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE 3 CLINICS AND SURGERIES 4 GP SURGERIES 12 SURGERIES IN SUDBURY 14 This directory has information about health services and some SCHOOL NURSING 18 of the other related services which HEALTH VISITING 18 are on offer in Sudbury. It has been produced by the NHS West COMMUNITY PHARMACIES 19 Suffolk Clinical Commissioning DENTISTS 21 Group (which plans and buys healthcare for 241,000 people in OPTICIANS 23 west Suffolk) in partnership with MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT 25 Babergh District Council. OTHER SERVICES 27 Thanks to all the people who have CHILDREN’S CENTRES 33 contributed to this directory. All possible efforts have been made to HEALTHY LIVING 34 make this information accurate at the BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT time of going to press. If you notice AND MEALS ON WHEELS 37 anything that is incorrect, please telephone 01284 758 016 or email: SUPPORTING PEOPLE [email protected] WITH DEMENTIA 38 HOSPICE CARE 39 An up to date electronic version of this directory is available at: USEFUL CONTACTS 39 www.westsuffolkccg.nhs.uk TRANSPORT 42 SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE 3 The Sudbury Community Health Centre opened in early 2015, providing state of the art health facilities for people in and around Sudbury, representing a significant achievement for the NHS and local people who played a significant role in making the project happen. The new facility delivers a range of local healthcare services including the Siam GP surgery and replaces Walnuttree, St Leonard’s and Acton Lane clinics. A new pharmacy will soon open at the health centre. Services housed in the new building include: SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE • Community midwifery, health visitors, district nurses, community Church Field Road nurses, occupational therapists, Sudbury physiotherapists and support CO10 2YA workers. • GP services from Siam GP surgery Email: comments@ • Musculoskeletal physiotherapy, westsuffolkccg.nhs.uk podiatry, speech and language Main reception: 01787 886 300 therapy and continence clinics. (opening hours 8am-5.30pm, • Neurology, urology, ophthalmology Monday-Friday) and orthopaedics. • Paediatrics, dermatology, audiology, Siam GP Practice: gynaecology, rheumatology. 01787 886444 • X-ray. Suffolk Community Healthcare: 0300 1232 425 Free parking is available. There is no A&E service. Siam Surgery does offer Allied Health Professionals a minor injuries service for its patients. Suffolk (physiotherapy): 01473 770 066 The health centre project was started by NHS Suffolk and the health centre is commissioned by the NHS West Suffolk CCG. 4 SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AUDIOLOGY This clinic gives hearing aid Monday, Tuesday and Friday (on third wearers the opportunity to have Friday of the month, morning only) their hearing aid re-tubed and By appointment only. maintained, to get replacement Provider: West Suffolk Hospital batteries and to discuss hearing aid GP referral matters. For appointments, please call 01284 713507. Replacement batteries are also available from health centre receptionists. CARDIAC REHABILITATION Following an initial assessment, Wednesdays and Fridays - this specialist team helps with see description for details. self management. Home visits Provider: Suffolk Community are occasionally offered where Healthcare appropriate. For more information, Referral from health professional call 01787 886376. Group exercise programmes are on Friday mornings and exercise assessments and clinics on Friday afternoons. The out of hours exercise programme is on Wednesday evenings. CHILDREN’S SPEECH AND Speech and language therapists LANGUAGE THERAPY assess and treat children Daily (excluding bank holidays) with speech, language and All day communication difficulties. These Provider: Suffolk Community can include unclear speech, little Healthcare or no spoken language, slow or Open referrals through a form, unusual development of spoken usually done by health visitors, language, difficulties with chewing paediatricians, GPs, early-years or eating and drinking, difficulties settings and schools understanding what people say to them, stammering, and voice problems. 5 DENTAL SERVICES This specialist clinic offers Wednesdays and Thursdays community dental services to a 8.30am-5pm variety of patients, including people Provider: CDS-CIC with learning disabilities or complex Health professional or self-referral medical conditions, people who use mental health services, the homeless or those with physical and sensory impairments. NHS charges will apply (see page 22 for full details). DERMATOLOGY This clinic provides a comprehensive Tuesday and Wednesday mornings service for adults and children with Provider: West Suffolk Hospital skin problems. GP or hospital referral DIETETIC CLINIC This clinic offers support and advice First Tuesday of the month, second to patients who are overweight, Tuesday morning of the month concerned about their diet or are Provider: West Suffolk Hospital worried they may be lacking in GP referral certain nutrients. DIABETIC Support for diabetics. Support is also First and second Thursdays of the available at your GP surgery. month, morning Provider: West Suffolk Hospital GP referral DISTRICT NURSES The chance to get assistance and Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays support from the nursing team. Provider: Suffolk Community You can refer yourself by calling Healthcare the care coordination centre on Open referral 03001232425. 6 SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE EARS, NOSE AND THROAT Ear, nose and throat clinic Friday mornings (appropriate specialist). Provider: West Suffolk Hospital GP referral ELDERLY MEDICINE Support and medication for the First Wednesday of the month, mornings elderly. GP referral EPILEPSY NURSE Providing support for people with Third Thursday of the month, epilepsy. second Tuesday Provider: Suffolk Community Healthcare GP referral FALLS A clinic to provide assistance First Wednesday of the month, mornings to those who have had or are Provider: Suffolk Community Healthcare susceptible to falls. GP referral GASTROENTEROLOGY Supporting patients with diseases First, third and fourth Thursday of the intestines, liver or pancreas. of the month, mornings Provider: West Suffolk Hospital GP referral GENERAL SURGERY Providing general surgery. First and third Monday of the month, second and fourth Tuesday, Wednesday afternoons Provider: West Suffolk Hospital GP referral 7 GYNAECOLOGY Ensuring the health of the female Wednesday mornings reproductive systems. Provider: West Suffolk Hospital GP referral HEART FAILURE This clinic works with patients First Tuesday and second to improve their quality of life and fourth Wednesdays of the month, by helping them manage the mornings symptoms of heart failure. The clinic Provider: Suffolk Community Healthcare helps educate patients about their GP referral condition and the improvements they could gain through diet, exercise and medication. LEG ULCER CLINIC Offering support, advice and Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays treatment for those with leg ulcers. Provider: district nurses GP referral PULMONARY REHABILITATION A twice weekly, 6 week programme Tuesdays and Thursdays of exercise therapy and education Provider: Suffolk Community Healthcare to encourage self-management and Referral from health professional improve understanding and control of breathlessness symptoms in COPD and other chronic progressive lung conditions. This is currently run at Stevenson Centre, Stevenson Approach, Great Cornard, CO10 0WD, though will be held at the health centre soon. Assessments can take place at the health centre. 8 SUDBURY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE MENTAL HEALTH Provider: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Sudbury, Great Cornard and the surrounding area is covered by the Bury South Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), based in Bury St Edmunds but operating from a satellite base in the new health centre. This supports individuals with mental health problems and learning disabilities, and their families, across the age range from children to adults. Input is provided for a a number of different groups. Child and Family - for children and young people up to the age of 13 (appointments are generally offered in Bury St Edmunds). Youth - 14 to 25, age appropriate support is offered to young people who may be developing a mental health difficulty. Adult and Enhanced Community - for people over 25 with significant mental health difficulties. Complexity in Later Life - any older person with complex needs or early dementia. Neuro Developmental Pathway - all adult service users with moderate learning disabilities and significant mental health needs or challenging behaviour. The aim is to support individuals and their families to achieve their desired goals. For all current service users call 01284 733 188. All new referrals are seen by the Suffolk Access and Assessment Service - call 0300 1231334. 9 MIDWIVES The Gainsborough Midwifery Team Daily (antenatal) and twice weekly is part of West Suffolk NHS (postnatal) Foundation Trust. The Midwifery team Provider: West Suffolk Hospital provide antenatal and postnatal care GP or self-referral and support to women and families. Antenatal clinics are held five days a week and postnatal clinics twice a week. Details on how to refer for midwifery care can be obtained from your GP surgery. Tel: 01787 886 496. NEUROLOGY For the assessment and treatment Monday mornings of neurological problems.