With approximately 8,500 children and young people using inhalers across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, expert asthma advice will be top of the agenda as local health leaders gear up for another #AskAboutAsthma awareness week. Now in its seventh year, the week-long campaign aims to actively encourage small changes in the management of asthma that can…

Community pharmacies across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin are now offering oral contraception, previously prescribed by a GP, to local people. The new service is available in 26 community pharmacies in the county and is part of a new initiative to improve access, manage demand, and allow our highly skilled pharmacists to do more. Patients who…

Patients and members of the public will now be able to read about the changing role of professionals in GP practices across the UK within the national press. GP practices have changed and there are now more health experts available to help you. Your GP practice has been joined by additional highly trained and qualified…

The NHS is bracing itself for one of the toughest strikes in its history beginning on Thursday morning, say health bosses at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. Consultant doctors and hospital-based dentists will be taking strike action from 8am on Thursday until 8am on Saturday, with consultants only providing staffing levels to cover emergency care.…

NHS representatives from Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin will be travelling to London this week to join the NHS 75th anniversary special service being held at Westminster Abbey. The prestigious ceremony takes place between 11am and 12noon on Wednesday 5 July and will be attended by colleagues and volunteers from all parts of the NHS across…

From 1 July 2023 the way members of the public make a complaint about primary care services is changing.   By primary care services we mean GPs, dentists, opticians or pharmacy services.  There are two ways you can make a complaint:     You can complain to the healthcare provider: this is the organisation where you received the…

Families and teachers are being encouraged to start supportive conversations with young people following a rapid increase in those admitted to hospital after using class B drug, ketamine. The recent surge coincides with a spell of hot weather and the end of exam season for many young people, with gatherings and celebrations thought to have…

The NHS and local councils in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin are working hard to keep people safe during the planned strikes, while delivering the best care possible. The next planned industrial action is from West Midlands Ambulance Service on Monday 12 June, between 6am – 12noon and 6pm – 12 midnight, as well as junior…

Access to GP services at Highley Medical Centre will continue until the end of June 2023, health leaders from NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin have confirmed. Health services at Highley Medical Centre will continue for a further three months and will maintain the same provision as previously offered, whilst a procurement exercise is carried out…

Dr Matthew Fallon, GP Partner at Claremont Bank Surgery, Shrewsbury writes: Across our county, all GP practices are under extreme pressure because of increasing demand, workforce problems and estates issues. This is a national problem not just a local one, but that doesn’t make things any better. Since the pandemic, healthcare professionals including GPs have…