Useful Contacts

Pharmacies

Rowland Pharmacy – Brickfields Road – 01245 325277

Govani – Town Square – 01245  321910 and ... http://www.locallifedesign.co.uk/clients/govani/homepage.asp?pagetype=homepage

Village Pharmacy – Hullbridge Road – 01245 320344

Hospitals

Basildon University Hospital – http://www.basildonandthurrock.nhs.uk/

Broomfield Hospital – http://www.meht.nhs.uk/hospitals/broomfield.htm

St Peter's – http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/Hospital.aspx?id=RQ8LJ

Southend Hospital – http://www.southend.nhs.uk/

Colchester Hospitals – http://www.essexrivers.nhs.uk/

Essex Private Hospitals –  http://www.specialistinfo.com/thget.php?t=t_chst&r=ZESS
http://www.nuffieldhospitals.org.uk/
http://www.ramsayhealth.co.uk/our_hospitals/choose_a_hospital/east/springfield_hospital.aspx
http://www.ramsayhealth.co.uk/our_hospitals/choose_a_hospital/east/oaks_hospital.aspx

Odds and Sods

South Woodham Health Clinic – http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/Hospital.aspx?id=5PX50&v=1

Nearest dentist – http://www.brickfieldsdentalcare.co.uk/ (Others – see Focus, below)

Greenwood Surgery Patient Participation Group – greenwood.surgery@btinternet.com

South Woodham Focus newspaper – list of useful local numbers = http://www.swfocus.co.uk/?id=numbers

Medical advice:

NHS Direct – http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/  or dial 0845 4647

Patient UK – http://www.patient.co.uk/

NetDoctor – http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/

Assistance for elderly

http://www.stocksurgery.co.uk/elderly2.htm

BBC ESSEX – LIST OF LOCAL SERVICES

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2005/12/29/helpline_fact_sheet_feature.shtml

Complaints about the NHS

The Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)

1) Mid Essex Primary Care Trust – Telephone: 01245 459459
Email:  PALS@midessexpct.nhs.uk

2) Broomfield Hospital Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS)

PALS Tel: 01245 514130
Email:  response@meht.nhs.uk

Videos

These are mainly for other healthcare professionals – they concern improvements that could be made in the service 'primary care' provides.  They include:

District Nursing

Paste the following links into your browser ... or go to YouTube.com and type:
Helena Baker into the search box

Part 1 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfX4UFRp–U
Part 2 – http://uk.youtube.com/user/TinyRooster47

X–ray (etc) in primary care

Paste the following links into your browser ... or go to YouTube.com and type:
swf xray into the search box

How the vets put us to shame

Part 1 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fcPhysShq54
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2NxRqs0jU
Part 3 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o–IZBLAxFiA  (ultrasound)
Part 4 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HmT2vAzCUis  (blood testing – lab)

How the dentists put us to shame

Part 1 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iD89DMAqhn4
Part 2 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YRLVqgq92Vw
Part 3 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0om4y2cMAsw
Part 4 – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MUa7Zm9Zcwc

Exercise

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K81py4bEnQc

The Greenwood Surgery Saga

Recent history.  The subject is fascinating – how can the NHS justify doing its best to lower the standard of care we were/are able to provide, to actively discriminate against a group of patients?  The treatment, however, is pedestrian – it's all there, but it does go on a bit!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uq3rTBoBuHI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u27_pmtZpXI