Welcome

Welcome to your 2010 guide to local health services, we hope you will find it useful.

It comes to you from NHS Cambridgeshire which is responsible for buying health services from GPs, dentists, optometrists, community pharmacists, hospitals and mental health trusts.

We've packed lots of useful information into a small space! There's so much advice out there about how to stay healthy and it can get a little confusing. Everything you read here is from your local NHS with advice from clinicians and real life stories about your NHS experiences as well as health tips, advice and updates on services.

We want everyone in Cambridgeshire to be as health as they can be. If you have any concerns, we're here to help. Please contact your local NHS advice service: PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service) on freephone 0800 279 2535 or 01223 725588 email c-pct.pals@nhs.net

Contents:

• New Chief Executive joins Health Trust
• 5 a day
• Have you been to the dentist lately?
• It's late Saturday night, you're very sick, it can't wait, what do you do?
• Smiles all round
• £5M wasted in unused medicines each year
• Chlamydia doesn't have to be embarrassing ...
• Summary Care Records to go electronic across the NHS
• Ben's out of the Woods
• Choose Well
•  Money Matters
• Change 4 Life
• Stop Smoking Start Living
• Annual Health Check
• Your pull out & keep list of phone numbers and websites of all essential local health services

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