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Healthier Together – A great place to find accurate and trusted NHS healthcare advice in the North East and North Cumbria: check out the website here: https://www.nenc-healthiertogether.nhs.uk/

All GP practices are required to declare the mean earnings(eg average pay) for GP’s working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. However it should be noted that the prescribed method for calculating earnings is potentially misleading. It takes no account of how much time doctors spend working in the practice and should […]

Your health records contain a type of data called confidential patient information. This data can be used to help with research and planning. Patients can find all the information and processes they need on the following link: Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning

A number of medical conditions will no longer be dealt with by prescriptions, the NHS has confirmed. To save money it spends on treating minor ailments, the NHS has published a list of 35 conditions for which doctors no longer issue a prescription. For minor ailments, patients are being asked to go to their pharmacy […]

Anybody needing to demonstrate your COVID 19 status, will need to get a NHS COVID Pass letter. This is not a document which the surgery can provide. Please call 119 and option 3 or click here to apply online. Please be advised that the surgery does not provide recovery letters for travel. Some private GP’s/private practices do offer this […]

Proposed closure of Longhoughton Surgery and relocation of the dispensary LONGHOUGHTON GP AND DISPENSING SERVICES As you are aware, our clinical services have had to reduce over the past fifteen months due to COVID-19 and our GP services at Longhoughton have been delivered by the Alnwick Medical Group team at our other sites. We are […]

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Only 1 in 3 North East adults are aware that alcohol can cause cancer. But alarming figures reveal that four out 10 people (around 855,000 people) are drinking enough to significantly raise their risks . The figures come as Balance and the NHS launch a major campaign in the North East and North Cumbria (Nov […]

You can choose to stop your confidential patient information being used for research and planning. Your confidential patient information will still be used for your individual care. Further information from NHS Digital can be found here. NHS Digital – Opting-out of sharing your confidential patient information: Click here for more information There are two opt-outs available […]

Mental health problems are common and can affect anyone, including veterans and their families. Although it’s completely normal to experience anxiety or depression after traumatic events, this can be tough to deal with. Symptoms or problems coping can happen at any time, including a few years after leaving the armed forces. Some people delay getting […]