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Decision made to approve Holt Medical Practice’s application to close its branch surgery at Blakeney
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board’s Primary Care Commissioning Committee has today approved an application from Holt Medical Practice to close its branch surgery at Blakeney. The committee reviewed the application and information prov...
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Executive Medical Director Blog: April 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
As we start the financial year, we have spent a lot of time and energy focusing on our short-term financial challenges. This is clearly important, as our budget is limited and we need to do the best and most we possibly can for our population with w...
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Support for People Living with Dementia
Purpose: To contact patients of participating GP Practices who are coded as living with dementia. Objective: To complete an initial triage call with the patient/and or their identified carer or person with Power of Attorney. This aims to establis...
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Executive Director of Nursing Blog: March 2024 – Tricia D’Orsi
As many of you will be aware, our system moved to a new ambulance offload process in November 2023 in response to significant handover delays and risk to patients waiting in the community for emergency care if an ambulance was unable to reach them i...
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Have you been diagnosed with a Serious Mental Illness (SMI)? – Share your story
Healthwatch Norfolk is working with the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) to discover more about the support people received from community mental health services. We would like to hear from adults living with a Serious Mental Illness w...
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Executive Medical Director Blog: March 2024 – Dr Frankie Swords
Spring is finally here – the sun is shining and the daffodils are up and in bloom. This month, we received formal notification that Norfolk and Waveney has been removed from “special measures” (national oversight framework 4) which is a huge caus...
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Success at Healthcare Science Week Event
Students from over 30 schools and colleges across Norfolk and Waveney joined a recent Healthcare Science Week event to explore career opportunities in healthcare science. From physiological sciences like audiology, to physical sciences such biome...
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NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board on behalf of the Integrated Care System becomes an NHSE supported Innovation Site (InSite)
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) on behalf of the Integrated Care System (ICS) is excited to become part of the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) Innovation Sites (InSites) programme. InSites brings together NHS provider organ...
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Pharmacies open during the Easter bank holidays
NHS Norfolk and Waveney has commissioned several community pharmacies to be open during the upcoming Easter bank holidays across Norfolk and Waveney.The poster below shows the opening hours for pharmacies on Sunday 31st March (Easter Sunday) and Mon...
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Cancer patients collaborate with NHS to launch new support toolkit
People in Norfolk and Waveney living with cancer have collaborated with the NHS to develop a new resource to support others diagnosed with cancer in the future. The Norfolk and Waveney Cancer Information Toolkit has been launched today (6 March) ...
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Get started on preventative hay fever medicines now so they’re ready when you need them
Did you know it can take up to two months for many of the preventative hay fever medicines to become fully effective? That’s why NHS Norfolk and Waveney is urging people who are usually affected by hayfever to start taking their preventative hay ...
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Clinical Strategy – Year 1 – “You said, we did”
The Clinical Strategy for Norfolk and Waveney is based on the experiences, hopes and ideas of the patients who use the NHS, the staff that work in it, and the communities that it serves. The strategy represents an important voice, but it is one o...