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  • Contact Us
    • Appointments
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    • NHS Friends & Family Test
  • About Us
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    • Care Quality Commission
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    • Financial Sustainability
    • Mission Statement
    • Newsletter
    • Opening Times
    • Patient Panel
    • Practice Leaflet
    • Practice Team
  • Our Services
    • Extended Access
    • Named GP
    • Non-NHS Services and Fees
    • Online Services
    • Register with a midwife if you are pregnant
    • Registration
    • Services and Clinics
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  • Information for you
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Self-help & advice

Explore the sections below:

  • Minor illnesses and injuries
  • Living well guides
  • Mental health
  • Care and support
  • Women's health
  • Pregnancy

Minor illnesses and injuries:

These pages on NHS offer advice on common ailments to general tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle

Information on over the counter (OTC) medicines

These links take you to pages on the NHS website, and will open in a new tab/window.

Seasonal advice

Heatwave: Coping in hot weather

Sunscreen and sun safety

Insect Bites and Stings

Hay fever

Dehydration

Common illnesses and injuries:

  • Self-limiting conditions
  • Animal bites
  • Asthma
  • Back pain
  • Burns and scalds
  • Cold Sores
  • Common cold
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Coughs
  • Cuts and grazes
  • Headaches
  • Insect Bites and Stings
  • Norovirus
  • Sore throat
  • Whiplash

Guides on living well

NHS advice about healthy living, including eating a balanced diet, healthy weight, exercise, quitting smoking and drinking less alcohol.

Healthy weight

Information for adults and children about healthy weight, including advice to help you lose weight

Exercise

Exercise guidelines and workouts to help improve your fitness and wellbeing

Eat well

Information and advice about eating a healthy, balanced diet

Sexual health

Information and advice about sexual health, including contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

Alcohol advice

Advice and support for cutting down the amount of alcohol you drink

Quit smoking

Information and advice to help you stop smoking

Addiction support

Help and support for addiction, including drug and gambling addictions

Physio self-referral

Do you require physiotherapy treatment?

physio self-referral?

More guides

  • Sleep and tiredness
  • BMI healthy weight calculator
  • Bone health
  • Pain
  • Healthy teeth and gums
  • How to wash your hands

Mental health

Find information and support for your mental health.

5 steps to mental wellbeing

Evidence suggests, trying these things could help you feel more positive and able to get the most out of life

Guides, tools and activities

Read about self-help guides, tools and activities that can improve your mental health

Tips and support

Read tips and support for improving your mental health, including

Mindfulness

Mindfulness can help us enjoy life more and understand ourselves better. You can take steps to develop it in your own life

Advice for life situations and events

Advice and support for your mental health in life situations and events

How to be happier

Try our 6 tips to help you be happier, more in control, and able to cope better with life's ups and downs

More information & support

  • Mental health conditions
  • Get urgent help for mental health
  • 10 stress busters
  • Exercise for depression
  • Breathing exercises for stress

Social care and support guides

If you or someone you know needs help with day-to-day living because of illness or disability, this website explains your options and where you can get support.

Introduction to care and support

A quick guide for people who have care and support needs and their carers.

Help from social services and charities

Includes helplines, needs assessments, advocacy and reporting abuse.

Care after a hospital stay

Information and advice about eating a healthy, balanced diet

Practical tips if you care for someone

Includes advice on challenging behaviour, moving and lifting people and medicines

Caring for children and young people

Services, support and tips if you care for someone under 21, and moving to adult social services.

More information & support

  • Money, work and benefits
  • Support and benefits for carers
  • Care services, equipment and care homes
  • Making decisions for someone else

Women's health

Information and support on health, wellbeing, conditions and screening

Periods

Including painful periods, heavy periods, PMS and adenomyosis

Contraception

Different methods of contraception and how effective they are

Menopause

Symptoms of menopause and perimenopause

Vagina and vulva health

Including infections and conditions that can affect your vagina and the area around it (your vulva)

Womb and ovary health

Including ovarian cysts, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and womb (uterus) cancer

More help & advice

Information and support on health, wellbeing, conditions and screening

More information & support

  • Abortion
  • Bladder and urinary health
  • Breast health
  • Cancer
  • Domestic violence, abuse or rape
  • HRT (hormone replacement therapy)
  • Infertility

Pregnancy

This guide includes all you need to know about trying for a baby, pregnancy, labour and birth.

Trying for a baby

Advice about planning a pregnancy and how to tell if you're pregnant

Finding out you're pregnant

What happens and things to think about when you're first pregnant

Due date calculator

The calculator on this page can help you work out when you might expect your baby to arrive.

Your pregnancy care

Read about the scans, tests and antenatal care you can have

Keeping well in pregnancy

Consult a clinician, routine appointments, sick notes, test results and more

Labour and birth

How to tell if you're in labour and what happens during labour and birth

More information & support

  • Pregnancy week-by-week
  • Pregnancy-related conditions
  • Support
  • Having a baby if you're LGBT+
  • Pregnancy and COVID-19
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Opening times

Monday
8:00 am — 6:30 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am — 6:30 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am — 6:30 pm
Thursday
8:00 am — 6:30 pm
Friday
8:00 am — 6:30 pm
Saturday
Closed
Saturday
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We are closed during bank holidays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s day. If you need out of hours care see below.

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    • Mission Statement
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    • Opening Times
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    • Extended Access
    • Named GP
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    • Online Services
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    • Registration
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    • Carers Information
    • GP Patient Survey
    • Measles Outbreak in Birmingham
    • Medical Notes for Ill Health
    • NHS Campaigns and Information
    • Prescriptions
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