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Self Care

We can all take steps ourselves to establish and maintain health, and to prevent and deal with illness when it occurs. Our website has been designed to promote self-care and you will find lots of self-help advice and signposting across the pages. 

NHS Health A-Z provides useful information about common medical conditions.  

Live Well provides advice, tips and tools to help you make the best choices about your health and wellbeing.  

Medicines A-Z provides accurate information about commonly used medicines.

The Care & Support Services Directory explains your where you can get support if you need help with day-to-day living because of illness or disability.  

Self Referral

Our Self-Referral page provides the details of lots of local and national NHS services and charities who you can refer yourself to without the need to speak with a doctor or nurse.

Self Care Forum

The self-care forum is a national charity which aims to further the reach of self care and embed it into everyday life. They have created a series of helpful factsheets on some of the more common ailments as well as information on Covid-19 and Nutrition. You can access the factsheets by following the link below:

Patient.info – Health information you can trust

Patient.info is an online resource which provides trusted information on a variety of health and lifestyle topics.

Information is shared through a variety of leaflets, videos, articles and blogs.

There is also a handy online symptom checker.