New: Erdington Family Hub to open soon
More support for families in Birmingham is on hand in the form of Family Hubs, including ‘Best Start for Life’ (extra support for families with 0-2 year olds). Family Hubs is bringing organisations and professionals together in one place, to offer families, advice, guidance and support on a wide range of family and parenting issues.
Following the opening of the Hodge Hill, Ladywood Family Hubs and Hall Green Family Hubs the partnership is pleased to announce that the Erdington Hub will open at Lakeside Children’s Centre, Lakes Road, Erdington B23 7UH, on 29 April. Castle Vale Children’s Centre, 372 Yatesbury Road B35 6DG, will become the satellite hub; both centres are run by Spurgeons Children’s Charity. The opening will be followed by a family fun day later in May.
The Northfield centre will also open on 29 April as previously detailed, at Northfield Children’s Centre, Frankley, B45 0EU, currently run by Barnardo’s.
Family Hub support is being rolled out in centres across Birmingham with five more hubs to follow. Information, advice and guidance is also available online on the Family Hubs website. Families can access the right help locally at the right time in a whole family approach, particularly focusing on families with children and young people aged 0-19 (25 with SEND).
If you would like more information in the meantime, or do not wish to receive these emails please contact familyhubs@birmingham.gov.uk
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
The new ‘Get your blood pressure checked’ campaign launches 11th March 2024.
The only way to know if you have high blood pressure is to get a blood pressure test to lower your risk of a fatal heart attack, stroke, kidney disease or vascular dementia. The campaign encourages all adults aged 40 and over to get a blood pressure check. It’s a free, simple and a non-invasive procedure conducted in privacy at your local pharmacy, and you don’t need to book in advance.
Campaign details
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Find a pharmacy: 40+ free NHS Blood Pressure Check Service
Target audience: Adults, People with long-term conditions
Topics: NHS, Early diagnosis, Blood pressure
Campaign start date: 11th March 2024
Help promote healthy hearts in Birmingham and Solihull!
The Birmingham and Solihull Healthy Hearts website aims to help reduce the risk of stroke and cardiac events by giving patients information, 'how-to' videos, and accessible resources to raise awareness of CVD conditions and support self-management. Hot water bottle safety
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Waiting list information in the NHS App
From 30 January 2024, the NHS App will show patients in England an estimated waiting time for their hospital treatment at the NHS acute trust they’ve been referred to.
You can access a communications package (FutureNHS account required) and learn more about how the service works. Contact our team if you have any further questions.
Digital prescriptions in the NHS App
From 30 January 2024, patients in England can use the NHS App to view all their prescription details, order repeat prescriptions and generate a barcode that can be shown to a pharmacy for collection without a paper prescription from their GP.
You can use our promotional materials to encourage your patients to use this new NHS App feature, along with the current order a repeat prescription service.
Learn more about digital prescriptions in the NHS App. Contact our team if you have any questions.
Birmingham Christmas Shelter opens its doors 24 hours a day during December so that up to 150 homeless and other lonely adults can enjoy Christmas with people who care. People are given a free safe place to sleep out of the cold, entertainment, showers, and as much food and treats as possible to build them up to withstand the cold weeks ahead. Please share this so those who need this support know how they can access it.
In addition, there is a link for those would like to register to become a volunteer. Registration for Returning and New Volunteers will be open on 1st November 2023.
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New: Brake guidance on child car safety
The ICB's Child Death Review Team are asking practices to share national guidance from Brake, the road safety charity, on ensuring children's safety in cars.
NHS App
Did you know you can manage repeat prescriptions from your GP surgery Dr Kulshrestha’s Summerfield Family Practice in the NHS App?
You can easily choose where your prescriptions are sent. So, if you know you'll be away from home or you are moving home, you can change your nominated pharmacy from within the app.
You can also order your prescription at any time that suits you. There’s no need to wait to join a telephone queue or wait until the GP surgery opens.
It’s easy to use, and, if you hit a snag, you can go to ‘Help’ in the top right-hand corner of the app or visit nhs.uk/helpmeapp.
Find out more about the NHS App at: www.nhs.uk/nhsapp.
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Results from the 2023 survey
Bereavement support for patients from Cruse
Help for Families
The early help service supports children, young people and families across the Ladywood Locality. Find our more about Help for Families.
New Birmingham Care Services Directory 2023
Care Service Directory- to share the link to - online e-book version below;
https://www.carechoices.co.uk/publication/birmingham-care-services-directory/
New: Fussy eating video resources
BCHC paediatric dieticians have produced three minute videos about fussy eating in 10 of Birmingham's most common languages. These are excellent resources, helping families to understand how they can support their children to develop healthy eating habits.
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Antibiotic Amnesty 2022
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New: Resources for people with a learning disability
Learning Disability England has resources available to support people with learning disabilities with the increases in the cost of living. You can access the resources at https://www.learningdisabilityengland.org.uk/cost-of-living-resources/.
The resources cover topics such as:
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New patient resources for BSol Shared Care Record
The Shared Care Record website has been updated with new communication resources for patients, including a leaflet translated into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, Polish, Romanian, Somali, Tigrinya and Urdu. There is also a signed video version, and a new animation.
Diabetic Eye Screening Leaflet in different languages and Easy Read Leaflets
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Starting Well
An Antibiotic Amnesty is being held to encourage people to return their unused or old antibiotics to any local pharmacy and help combat antimicrobial resistance.
Antibiotic Amnesty
Do you have any unused or old antibiotics at home? We are asking you to return them to any local pharmacy as part of an Antibiotic Amnesty.
Antibiotics are important medicines for treating bacterial infections but the more they are used the more bacteria are able to find ways to survive the antibiotic. This is known as antibiotic resistance and is a huge threat to our future health. Without effective antibiotics many routine treatments will become increasingly dangerous. Setting broken bones, operations and treatments for cancer all rely on access to antibiotics that work.
You should only take antibiotics when they have been prescribed for you by a healthcare professional. Unless your doctor or nurse has specifically told you to, you should never save antibiotics for later, and never share them with others.
You can play your part in protecting antibiotics for the future by returning unused or old antibiotics to any local pharmacy.
Dr Kulshrestha’s Summerfield Family Practice is also encouraging all our staff and patients to become Antibiotic Guardians and choose a pledge to help protect these vital medicines.
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Welcome to Dr Kulshrestha's Summerfield Family Practice
Welcome to Dr Kulshrestha’s Summerfield Family Practice. We serve the areas of Winson Green.
Our team includes two GPs, a Practice Manager, a Practice Nurse and Reception staff.
We offer a full general practice serve and run specialist clinics for pregnant women, diabetes and asthma. Antenatal clinics are run by the midwife team at Cape Street.
At the practice we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously and in complete confidence.
Child Health Surveillance is done by Dr Sheena Kulshrestha in conjuction with the Baby Clinic in Summerfield Primary Care Centre.
We are a teaching practice which means that 5th year medical students spend some time with us to gain the experience they need to become doctors.
As a teaching practice, your medical records may be used for educational purposes. This is why we ask patients registering at the practice to sign a consent form giving permission for their records to be used in this way.
We Undertake research that means your personal information is also processed in order to undertake research. For this reason the information may be shared with research organisations.
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