2009 Press Releases

NHS East and North Hertfordshire (the primary care trust) are reminding people to get their repeat prescriptions in well before the Christmas break.

NHS East and North Hertfordshire (the primary care trust) is launching a new campaign to help patients with common winter illnesses know which NHS service to use if they are ill. Choose Well uses a colour coded thermometer to help people to match their symptoms with the NHS service which is right for their need.

Hertfordshire residents will soon receive a free guide to local health services through their door.

Did you know that almost 77% of GP practices in West Hertfordshire are now open for longer or that getting an NHS dentist appointment has now been made easier thanks to a new NHS hotline?

Did you know that almost 77% of GP practices in West Hertfordshire are now open for longer or that getting an NHS dentist appointment has now been made easier thanks to a new NHS hotline?

NHS East and North Hertfordshire’s health information roadshow came to the Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City this week.

The new Urgent Care Centres in Cheshunt and Hertford were officially opened on Friday 13th November by members of the patient representative panel Mary Slevin and Catherine Free.

Tracey Smith, Parkinson’s Disease Nurse for east and north Hertfordshire picked up a prestigious Nursing Standard award at a ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London last night (Monday 9 November).

DisabledGo, the UK’s foremost provider of disabled access information, has launched a new initiative aimed at transforming patient satisfaction amongst disabled people. DisabledGo-Health is the UK’s first comprehensive online national disabled-access guide to healthcare services providing free, detailed access information to, for example, local hospitals, dentists and GPs. This new online guide comes after years of research that documents how difficult it is for the UK’s 11 million disabled people to find access to healthcare that is appropriate to their specific requirements. How to find a dentist with step free access or a GP surgery with a hearing loop are among many of the features that the service offers on www.disabledgo.com, helping to benefit the estimated 258,000 disabled people and those with a direct link to disability in Hertfordshire.