Please find below helpful information surrounding general health and signposting:
Patient.info: Health Information and Symptom Checker
The NHS website – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
When to use NHS 111 online or call 111 – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Healthy Living
We can refer you to a Stop smoking clinic for advice and support to patients trying to give up smoking.
Stop Smoking
NHS Free Smoking Helpline 0800 022 4 332 7 days a week, 7am to 11pm. Here to help you! The NHS have produced “Smokefree”, a dedicated service to inform everyone of the dangers of smoking, the benefits to giving up and how they can help you kick the habit.
QUIT is the independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop. Smokers wanting to QUIT should call 0800 00 22 00 or email stopsmoking@quit.org.uk for free, individual, same-day advice from our trained counsellors.
Useful Links: NHS Choices – Stop Smoking, NHS Stop Smoking Tracker
This desktop application will help you to stop smoking successfully by providing a 30-day course of daily messages, information and tips straight to your computer.
Eating Well & Exercise
You don’t have to spend lots of money to eat well. Watch this video to see dietitian Azmina Govindji explain how you can eat healthily for less.
Useful Links: NHS – Good Food Guide
Information on a healthy diet and ways to make it work for you.
BBC Healthy Living – Nutrition
A good diet is central to overall good health, but which are the best foods to include in your meals, and which ones are best avoided? This section looks at the facts, to help you make realistic, informed choices.
Change for life
These days, ‘modern life’ can mean that we’re a lot less active. With so many opportunities to watch TV or play computer games, and with so much convenience and fast food available, we don’t move about as much, or eat as well as we used to. Which means that 9 out of 10 kids today could grow up with dangerous amounts of fat in their bodies. This can cause life-threatening diseases like cancer, type 2 diabetes and heart disease – so it’s really important that we do something about it.
Click here to visit their website.
Additional contacts
Gateway – 0161 357 5190
Smoking cessation – 0300 123 1044
Physio – 0161 357 5227
Health Visitor – 0161 622 4305
Midwife- 0161 952 5811
Dietician – 0161 622 9088