NHS Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) offer a self-referral physiotherapy service for people aged 18+ which can help you with conditions and symptoms affecting bones, muscles, nerves or joints.
You can visit the DCHS website at www.mskderbyshire.org.uk for further information about the service, including a self-referral form to refer yourself to the service.
For further information on Therapy Direct, please view the poster below:
Integrated Sexual Health Services remain available during lockdown. They continue to provide urgent and some non-urgent care to service users, however, there are a number of temporary changes in response to the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak.
There currently isn’t the option to ‘walk-in’ and if you wish to access an appointment you will be triaged via their Information and Booking line: 0800 328 3383, Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm.
You will be assessed over the phone and priority patients are given a time for either a face to face or a telephone consultation appointment.
Booked appointments can be made for the following clinics only: Chesterfield; Derby; Buxton; Swadlincote and Long Eaton. Other peripheral clinics are currently closed.
The service now has a number of self-care options that you can access online. These free, confidential and discreet items include:
For more information and sexual health service updates visit: Sexual Health Matter
The On Day Service is running in the areas of Ilkeston and Long Eaton to improve access to primary care.
Patients who call their GP for an appointment may be directed on that same day to the On Day Service where they will be seen by an advanced nurse practitioner or advanced care practitioner as appropriate.
The On Day Service is available from 8am to 6.30pm on weekdays, excluding bank holidays. To use it, patients just call their normal GP number.
The On Day Service – making it easier for you to receive the care you need on the same day
Advanced Practitioners are highly trained, skilled clinicians who can help you with many different health problems.
“I decided to undertake extra training so I can help patients with more complex problems.
Now I can prescribe medicines, request tests and interpret the results, and work on treatment plans with patients.
I can help a lot more patients, freeing up the doctors to see patients with the most urgent or complicated health issues.”
If you require any vaccinations relating to foreign travel you need to make an appointment with the practice nurse to discuss your travel arrangements. This will include which countries and areas within countries that you are visiting to determine what vaccinations are required.
The NHS website has information on travel vaccinations with links to which vaccinations are needed for the country/ countries you are travelling to – NHS Travel Vaccinations
To help us offer the appropriate advice, please contact the surgery to book a telephone call with treatment room nurse.
Everyone between the ages of 40 and 74 will be offered a health check every five years and over 75’s will be offered one every 3 years. At the check the risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes will be assessed and you will be offered support and advice to help reduce that risk.
All our doctors and nurses offer advice and support to patients trying to give up smoking.
Our nurses provide smoking cessation appointments where they provide advice, support, monitoring, nicotine replacement and advice on other techniques to help you quit.
Anyone who is aged 65 and over, persons in special categories eg diabetes, heart disease, asthma, COPD and who have had a splenectomy, are advised to have this vaccination. This is a one off injection which will give life long cover.
The flu vaccine is offered yearly to certain population groups, this is normally offered from September/October until February the following year.
You are eligible for a FREE flu vaccine if you:
We will contact you to book your flu vaccine if you are eligible.
For more information on the flu vaccine please go to NHS Influenza Vaccine
If you have diabetes you will have a review with a nurse to monitor your condition. The appointment may involve discussing your symptoms, a discussion about your medicines, breathing tests etc. Your practice will contact you to book your diabetes review when it is due, but if you have any concerns about your condition in the meantime please contact the surgery.
You will have a review if you have COPD, the appointment may involve discussing your symptoms, a discussion about your medicines, tests to monitor your health etc. Your practice will contact you to book your COPD review when it is due, but if you have any concerns about your condition in the meantime please contact the surgery.
