Find Services
Find services such as GP’s, Dentists and Opticians available local to you.
Hospital waiting times
The ‘My Planned Care’ website gives you advice and support while you wait and helps you to prepare for your hospital consultation, treatment, or surgery. This includes giving you information about waiting times at your hospital and other supporting and local services while you wait. It also provides information on waiting times for all other local hospitals.
This site is updated weekly and can be viewed by anyone, which means you, your family or carer as well as your NHS team can all see the latest information.
Your hospital team will be in touch with you as soon as they can. If you are looking for an update, please check this website before contacting your hospital or GP
Live Well
Advice to help you make the best choices about your health
Depression self-assessment
Assess whether you could be suffering from depression, based on how you’ve been feeling over the last fortnight.
Heart Age
Why it’s important to know your blood pressure and cholesterol numbers
BMI Calculator
Find out if you are a healthy weight. Or, use it to check your child’s BMI centile.
Your Mind Plan
Help maintain and improve your mental health and wellbeing.
Menopause
Symptoms, help & support and things you can do to help manage symptoms.
If you want to discuss the menopause and HRT options, we ask kindly that complete two requests for us first:
- read/watch the information shown here
- Complete the menopause questionnaire. You can do this by asking reception to send you a link.
After you have completed the above steps, we will be in touch to book an appointment with a clinician with an interest in the menopause.
We ask all patients considering HRT to read the information and watch the videos from the British Menopause Society.
Kathy Abernethy, Director of Menopause Services, Peppy Health, and Trustee – British Menopause Society, answers these FAQs: What is HRT? What are the types of HRT? Which preparation should I take? Is there a difference? How long could I take it for? If a patient had a hysterectomy would her HRT intake be different? What are the side effects? What are benefits of HRT? What are the risks of HRT?
Dr Heather Currie MBE, Associate Specialist Gynaecologist, Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, and Trustee – British Menopause Society, answers these FAQs: What is the menopause? At what age does a woman usually go into the menopause? How is the menopause diagnosed? What are the symptoms of the menopause? How can the symptoms of the menopause be managed?
Pain Self Management by Pete Moore | The Pain Toolkit
Helping you self manage persistent pain.
Health A-Z
Guide to conditions, symptoms and treatments, and when to get help.
Heavy periods self-assessment
Help to understand how heavy your periods are, and point you in the right direction for treatment options.
Your blood pressure
Find out what it means, along with information on how to reduce a high reading
Lose Weight
If you’re overweight, losing weight has many health benefits. Making small, simple changes to what and how much you are eating and drinking can really help you lose the pounds.
Personal Quit Plan
Support that is tailored to your habits rather than going ‘cold turkey’.
Sending us more information about your problem
You may have been asked by a member of staff to send us more information about your problem. We can then fully review the issue and ensure you get the right care at the right time.
Information on Cholesterol
Please take a look at the information regarding Should I take a Statin to find out more information about statins (cholesterol lowering drugs) and how to work out if it may be suitable for you. Please do discuss with one of the surgery team if you have more questions.
What is a healthy Cholesterol level? Please follow the link for further information on understanding your Cholesterol test results
Prostate cancer and screening for it
There is no national screening programme for prostate cancer in the UK. This is because previous research showed that the PSA test isn’t a reliable test that can pick up prostate cancer that needs treatment. Research is going on to find a new test. Or to see if the current test is more effective if used in a different way.
If you’re over 50 and want to have a PSA test, you can ask your GP. There are possible risks to having this test that your doctor can discuss with you. They will help you make a decision about whether to have the test.