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  • Pharmacies
    Pharmacists play a key role in providing quality healthcare.  They are experts in medicines and will use their clinical expertise, together with their practical knowledge, to ensure the safe supply and use of medicines by the public. A pharmacist has to be registered with the…
  • Medical Funding Guidance
    Medical funding is available for school age children/young people whose needs have changed significantly due to medical reasons; it is used to fund short term interventions to ensure consistency of access to education. The Local Authority will consider providing funding for two full terms (24…
  • Accident and Emergency Departments
    A&E departments assess and treat patients with serious injuries or illnesses.  Generally, you should visit A&E or call 999 for life-threatening emergencies, such as: Loss of consciousness; Acute confused state and fits that are not stopping; Persistent, severe chest pain; Breathing difficulties; Severe bleeding that…
  • Dentists
    1. Health 2. Dentists 3. Search for Dentists Everyone should be able to access good-quality NHS dental services.  There is no need to register with a dentist.  Simply find a practice that's convenient for you, whether it's near your home or work, and phone them…
  • Help with Health Costs
    Your child can get information on help with health costs (prescriptions, sight tests, NHS dental treatment) on the Direct Gov website. They will also be able to get free prescriptions, NHS dental treatment and free sight tests if they get: Income Support Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance Income-related Employment and…
  • Health Visitors, The Early Years
    About the Service The Health Visiting service provides advice, information and help to parents and their new baby from pre-birth to their first year at school.  It is provided in Lincolnshire by Lincolnshire County Council as part of the Children's Health Service 0-19. Health Visitors…
  • GP Surgeries
    1. Health 2. GP Surgeries 3. Search for GP Surgeries 2. What do General Practitioners (GP) do?  GPs usually work in practices as part of a team, which includes nurses, health care assistants, practice managers, receptionists and other staff.  Practices also work with other health…
  • Opticians
    1. Health 2. Opticians 3. Search for Opticians NHS optician is still the term most of us associate with their eye healthcare professional.  However, the term is being used less and less within the profession and it is important you know who you are dealing…
  • Disabled Children: A Legal Handbook
    Disabled children: a legal handbook’ can be downloaded for free from the Council for Disabled Children’s website. The handbook is an authoritative yet accessible guide to the legal rights of disabled children and their families in England and Wales. The authors, Steve Broach, Luke Clements…
  • Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services
    NICE guidelines provide advice on the care and support that should be offered to people who use health and care services.   This information explains what care young people and their parents or carers should expect from children's and adults' services during transition. It suggests…
  • SEND: Guide for Health Professionals
    Guidance for health professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND). The guide is for: clinical commissioning groups health professionals local authorities It explains the duties and responsibilities of health professionals who deal with children and…
  • Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)
    Lincolnshire is covered by four NHS clinical commissioning groups (known as CCGs). A CCG brings together local GP practices as members of the organisation and, alongside other NHS workers, it plans and helps to shape local health services for the people who are registered as…
  • Children's Health Service 0-19
    The Children's Health Service 0-19 offers health visiting and nurses for school aged children.  Health Visitors Health Visitors support children and their family from the antenatal period until the child reaches the end of their Reception year (0 to 6 years).  Health Visitors are trained…
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