Advice and Information

Find out what support is available to help you when travelling to your GP, hospital or other NHS services.

The new Pharmacy First scheme enables your local pharmacy to treat some common conditions with prescription-only medicines, without you visiting your GP. Find out everything you need to know.

Did you know you can choose which hospital you go to when referred for a test, diagnosis, or treatment? Find out how.

Illnesses like coughs, sore throats and ear ache are extremely common in young children, but did you know… our children’s ‘super bodies’ are designed to fight off many common illnesses, without the need for antibiotics?

Diabetes UK estimates that five million people in the UK are living with diabetes, with 850,000 of them not yet diagnosed.

Cervical screening, previously known as a smear test, saves over 4,000 lives every year in the UK. However, some women find it uncomfortable, so it's important to know what support is available and what adjustments you can request.

The NHS offers support for people on low incomes to help with care costs. Healthwatch look at how easy it is to access this help and how it can be improved.

Following a ballot of its members, the British Medical Association confirmed that a period of GP collective action would start on the 1st August 2024. Collective action is not the same as industrial action but means that some GPs may stop or reduce certain work.

The NHS is asking the public to continue to come forward as usual for care.

Changing Places are toilets designed to provide extra facilities for people with severe or multiple disabilities.

Suicide Bereavement UK have developed a series of At Your Side guides for those bereaved by suicide in the Armed Forces community.

Do you need to make a complaint about health and care services? Find out who to contact in Halton.

What are physician associates? Find out about their training and what kind of care they can provide.