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The NHS website is full of information to help you to manage your health. Please visit www.nhs.uk

If you have any of the symptoms below, please use the service shown...

999	Hospital
Chest pain	Cut/laceration/minor burns & scalds (Minor Injuries Unit)
Collapse & altered consciousness	Eye injuries
Extensive burns	Injured limb/fracture/sprain
Facial/limb weakness FAST	Persistent nosebleed (>20 mins - non warfarin)
Fitting (if 1st episode)	STI (GU clinic)
Headache with loss of consciousness	Toothache - Dentist
Major burns/scalds
Neck pain with additional symptoms
Non-blanching rash (failed glass test)
Poisoning/overdose
RTA
Severe allergy especially if lips & tongue swelling
Spinal injury
Trauma bleeding, heavy & persistent (non menstrual)
Unusual breathing difficulties/difficulty on talking
Unwell floppy infant

Community Pharmacist

Back pain

Cold sores

Colds/cough

D&V

Dry skin

Emergency contraception

Eye infections

Female >18 non recurrent UTI/cystitis

Haemorrhoids

Hay fever

Head lice

Impetigo

Insect bites

Minor cuts/grazes

Nappy rash

Oral thrush

Runny nose/nasal congestion

Sinusitis <10 days

Sore throat

Sunburn

Threadworm

Vaginal thrush

Warts/verrucae

Community pharmacy

If you need advice or medication for a minor self-limiting condition, please consider seeking advice and support from your community pharmacy that would be able to advise on self-care and appropriate purchase of over-the-counter medicines. You could also visit:

• NHS website
• Self-Care Forum

If you feel however that your condition is worsening despite over-the-counter treatment, please contact us.

Social prescribing

Improving your lifestyle can be very challenging and people often feel daunted at the prospect of change and not sure where to start.

There is a fantastic range of activities and organisation in the local community and social prescribing is all about linking you to these opportunities with the aim of improving your health.

Find out more about the social prescribing opportunities available.

MSK self-management resources

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy website provides a range of online resources to help you to manage your bone, joint or muscle pain.

Visit www.csp.org.uk/conditions/managing-pain-home

NNT website

The NNT website provides quick summaries of evidence-based medicine. It has been developed by physicians and provides:

• A rating system to evaluate therapies based on their patient-important benefits and harms
• A system to evaluate diagnostics by patient sign, symptom, lab test or study.

Please visit http://www.thennt.com/.

Healthy Cornwall

You can contact Healthy Cornwall, online or via telephone, for help in making health changes to your life. Healthy Cornwall provide help with things such as weight loss and stopping smoking. For more information please visit the Healthy Cornwall website.

Diabetes education

The Diabetes Education sessions are held once a month on a Wednesday evening at Wheal Northey.  Please ask at reception for more information.

There is also useful information available in the NHS Kernow Diabetes video library.

PSA testing and prostate cancer

Nutrition advice for increasing calorie intake

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