 Alternatives to A&E at Queen's
Queen’s Hospital is trialling a new approach to not urgent cases who go to A&E, directing them to different health care providers and there are plenty of other places to go if someone needs medical attention.
Havering has walk-in centres at Harold Wood Polyclinic, RM3 0AR, and at South End Road, Rainham RM13 7XJ, where you can get advice for any health problem. You can also get an urgent on-the-day GP appointment at our GP hubs – call 020 3770 1888 to book or find out more online.
And these facilities are not just available during the trial – you can use them any time you need to see a doctor and it’s not life threatening or an emergency. It can save you a potentially long wait in A&E, and keeps our emergency departments free for those who need them most.
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Extended
consultation on the relocation of sexual health services for Havering residents
Havering Council
has been consulting on changes to local sexual health services for the testing
and treatment of sexual transmitted infections and contraception.
We have discovered
that some residents and partners could not access the consultation via the link
in our email newsletters. To ensure that everyone who wanted to can take part
in the consultation, it has been extended until Friday 22 July.
Our proposals were
developed by the Council, with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University
Hospitals Trust (the local provider of these services) and adjacent boroughs.
We are all agreed that high quality sexual health services could be offered
more efficiently and at lower cost if fewer sites are used. However we
realise that residents would have to travel further to get to services if they
were centralised. Take part in the consultation here. Please cut and paste this link into your web address bar:
https://www.havering.gov.uk/consultations.
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Detect
bowel cancer early with free screening
GPs
are reminding people that early detection could save your life.
If caught
early 90 per cent of bowel cancers can be treated, yet despite this, it is the
cancer with the second highest death rate in the UK.
Screening
remains one of the best ways to spot cancer early. The NHS Bowel Screening
Programme offers a free screening kit for people aged 60 to 74 who are
registered with a GP. The kit is sent to your home every two years to make it
as quick and comfortable as possible to do the test. Anyone over the age of 75
can request a screening kit by calling 0800 707 6060.
 Queens Hospital
parking changes
The Rom Valley Way car park, currently owned by
Morrisons, is now closed to visitors and members of the public.
If you are visiting the hospital by car please allow extra
time to find suitable parking. Details of
available car parks can be found here.
There are also several bus routes which include Queens
Hospital and details
can be found here.
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Get Set to Go –
what’s stopping you get active?
 The Get Set to Go campaign, supported by
Mind, is all about empowering women with a mental health condition to get
active or to start enjoying a sport. Having a mental health problem shouldn’t
stop you from being active or enjoying a sport. Being active is a good way
of looking after your physical health, which is really important if you have a
mental health problem.
 There can be lots of barriers to exercising, including
having no time or little money to spend on yourself to low self-esteem or body
confidence. The Get Set to Go programme is here to support you, with our
award-winning online community, Elefriends,
taster sessions and our physical activity information
and resources available so you can live a more active life.
Residents could soon be given more say
in how health and social care is delivered locally
Patients and service users in north east London may benefit from more
joined up health and social care and more say locally in how money is spent.
Havering, together with neighbouring London boroughs in Barking &
Dagenham and Redbridge have joined forces with local NHS trusts and clinical
commissioning groups to explore setting up a new model of care called an
Accountable Care Organisation (ACO).
The area was one of five pilots in the capital given the go-ahead by Chancellor
George Osborne when he signed a health devolution deal for London in December.
Work is now underway to draw up a business plan looking at whether
setting up an ACO would deliver significant improvements to health and social
care at a time of increasing pressure upon services.
Stakeholders, staff and residents are being asked their views through a
series of polls and engagement events.
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