Where to get health advice over the festive season
No one wants to get ill over Christmas, but it’s important to know where to get health advice and treatment, just in case residents become unwell.
The Conservative Government is supporting every household with the cost of energy by extending the Energy Price Guarantee until April 2024, while uprating benefits and pensions in line with inflation, and providing £12 billion extra support for the most vulnerable.
To deliver on the people’s pri
The NHS and partners across Essex are calling on everyone to help ‘Do Your Bit’ this winter as hospitals, GPs, paramedics and care services prepare for a rise in demand for local services.
Mid and South Essex ICS has been in touch with the following information:
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The local NHS is asking people for their comments about proposals to offer fairer access to six healthcare services in mid and south Essex.
In July 2022, a change in the law created a new organisation, NHS Mid and South Essex, to take over local healthcare planning from the five former clinic
Following the creation of the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Service in July, there are differences in some of the services that were offered by the old CCGs. The ICS is now reviewing these services to make them equal across mid and south Essex as part of its ‘service harmonisation’ work.
Good news from the Mid and South Essex Health and Care Partnership:
"The NHS in mid and south Essex is delighted to be delivering an innovative pilot programme which provides a total diet replacement treatment for some patients who are living with Type 2 Diabetes and are overweight.
I’m aware some of my constituents, and readers of the Ongar News, have been upset they can no longer walk into the Ongar Health Centre to book an appointment.
The last couple of years have been a challenge for all those working in the NHS, not least those for the East of England Ambulance Service, who have had to offer help and advice far beyond usual need while hospitals were full of acutely ill Covid patients.
The East of England Ambulan
However you’re spending the bank holiday weekend, make sure you know where you can go for local health care.
If you have an urgent medical problem that’s not life threatening or an emergency, or you’re not sure what to do, you can call NHS 111.
