We encourage all our patients to share the responsibility of their health, both in preventing disease and treating existing disease. Prevention really is better than cure. Many of the most serious diseases can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle and without the general need for drugs.

Please feel free to discuss general health care and ask for advice. You can monitor your own blood pressure using the machine in our waiting room.

We also provide a full range of self help reading material which you can obtain free of charge through your GP. These include:

• Obsession & compulsions
• Panic
• Bereavement
• Post traumatic stress
• Shyness & social anxiety
• Sleep problems
• Depression & low mood
• Controlling anger
• Stress & anxiety

We have Samsung Tablets available in the waiting room which are equipped with a range of self-help resources – from mindfulness to exercise, from healthy eating to supporting your mood and wellbeing! The practice has also devised a Bereavement Pack. This details what to do immediately after bereavement, (everything from registering the death to funeral arrangements and who to inform). This free pack can be picked up from reception.