Here at Swallownest Health Centre we will invite you to an annual Health Check with one of our Physician associates, please see below for more information.
Speak up Self Advocacy, which is a charity in Rotherham for people with learning disabilities, have made a short film about Annual Health Checks to raise awareness. We think this should help ease anxieties for some people and thus increase uptake.
The video can be accessed with the following link:
https://vimeo.com/685828478/6999f8349e
Please check out Speakup's website www.speakup.org.uk for more information.
Ear Care Centre
Tel No: 01709 423207 (Ear Care)
Tel No: 01709 423145 (Audiology)
Rotherham Ear Care & Audiology Service
Rotherham Community Health Centre
Greasbrough Road
ROTHERHAM
S60 1RY
If you need hearing aid batteries or tubing, we can post them to you. To order please click on the order form below or email direct to rgh-tr.earcarecentre@nhs.net
Call 999 or go to A&E now if:
someone's life is at risk – for example, you/they have seriously injured your/themselves or they/you have taken an overdose.
Help for when you are in a Crisis:
If you require urgent mental health support the Rotherham Crisis team operates a 24/7 crisis telephone line:
Crisis Line
08008048999
Opening hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Rotherham Safe Space supports anyone experiencing a mental health crisis in Rotherham. It provides a safe place during the weekend evenings (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) designed for people in crisis to go for support and to prevent avoidable attendances at A&E. You need to ring to book and places are limited.
Call Freephone number: 0800 246 5059
Email: rotherhamsafespace.mhm@nhs.net
Opening hours: Thursday-Monday, 6pm-midnight
Address: Milton House, 77 Sheffield Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S60 1DA
https://www.mhm.org.uk/rotherham-safe-space
For Further information of organisations who can help when you need urgent support click on the link below:
https://rotherhive.co.uk/urgent-support/
Crisis Text Line is now in the UK as Shout! Text 85258 to be connected with a trained Crisis Volunteer.
Visit their website at: https://www.crisistextline.uk/?fbclid=IwAR3v7m5an_YgC3dBlkEVGy4oxiq-8Ng_ginvn9ErEik8fdIXCqOU0kuxlK8
Rotherham Diabetes Education
Your Local DESMOND Coordination Team
Name: Janet Bell - Administrator / Sarah Veitch - Coordinator
Telephone: 01709 427910
Email: diabetes.specialistnursing@nhs.net
Times available: Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:00
Localities: DESMOND is currently being delivered in the Diabetes Education and Resource Centre at Rotherham Hospital. These are run on a regular basis, two or three times every month.
Local Referral Pathway: Referrals received from GP Practice, Practice Nurse, Health Care professional. Self Referral by ringing or emailing on details above.
Modules Delivered:
DESMOND Newly Diagnosed module available (for patients up to 12 months post diagnosis)
DESMOND Foundation module available (for those with established diabetes)
MyDESMOND – Type 2 Diabetes Management - Digital programme for people with Type 2 diabetes. Visit www.mydesmond.com to find out more.
Face-to-face sessions resumed.
This is an online only service.
Primary care phlebotomy services are funded for General Practice needs, and those patients being treated under a Shared Care arrangement.
We’ve had an increasing number of patients trying to use our services for Hospital Bloods. Please note that practices aren’t obliged to pick up secondary care phlebotomy as this reduces our capacity to undertake work that we need to do to care for our patients.
Patients should be using the relevant hospital bloods service.
Sheffield Outpatient Phlebotomy and Sheffield Drive though bloods information:
https://www.sth.nhs.uk/services/a-z-of-services?id=282
Rotherham Hospital Phlebotomy
The service runs Monday to Friday by appointment only.
To book an appointment, please ring on 01709 424397 after 9am
Connect Healthcare Rotherham are inviting people between the age of 40-74, who do not have an underlying health condition for a free health check.
These clinics are run throughout Rotherham but also at Swallownest Health centre
Health Checks – Connect Healthcare Rotherham
01709 850427
Talking Therapies services offer treatment for a wide range of common mental health problems such as (but not exclusively):
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
- Social Anxiety
- Health Anxiety
We offer a range of advice and treatment options, including signposting information, online self-help, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), eye-movement desensitisation therapy (EMDR) and referrals for other mental health or support services.
Referrals to NHS Talking Therapies are accepted via a person’s GP or other health professional. Alternatively people can contact the service and self-refer by calling us or visiting our website.
Doncaster: 03000 211556
Doncaster Long-Term Conditions: 0300 211563
Rotherham: 03000 215 108
North Lincs: 03000 216 165
This service is not a crisis service and operates from 9-5 Monday to Friday. If you feel you need immediate support, or are in danger, please contact one of the following:
- 999 or 111
- 116123 to reach the Samaritans for telephone contact
- text SHOUT to 85258 for crisis support via text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLgv0E1k6hs
NHS Talking Therapies – for anxiety and depression
(Previously named Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) )
Support for; Stop Smoking, Getting Active, Weight Loss
https://rotherham-healthwave.connecthealthcarerotherham.co.uk/services/
01709 718720
Please use the links below to self-refer into the following Rotherham services. - Midwife self-referral - Maternity self referral form | The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (therotherhamft.nhs.uk) - Ear care and Audiology - Primary Ear Care and Audiology | The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (therotherhamft.nhs.uk) - Minor eye conditions - Eye Conditions – Connect Healthcare …
RotherHive provides a range of verified practical Mental Health and Wellbeing Information, Support and Advice for adults in Rotherham
www.rotherhive.co.uk
Rotherhive offer support for the following:
- Alcohol
- Berevement
- Carers
- Cost of living
- Debt
- Depression, anxiety and stress
- Dementia
- Domestic abuse
- Drugs
- Eating disorders
- Eating well
- Gambling
- Homless
- Mental health
- Moving more
- Pain mangement
- Perinatal
- Selfharm and self neglect
- Sleep
- Smoking
- Suicide prevention
- Protecting Vulnerable Adults – Safer Rotherham Partnership support to protect vulnerable individual.
- Support Agencies and Helplines - Rotherham Abuse Counselling Service (rothacs.org.uk) This website has links to services such as Action housing, rush house, victim support, children, and young people services etc. A wide array supporting vulnerable homeless, children, DA victims.
Integrated Sexual Health Service
Based at The Rotherham Foundation Trust and community venues
The confidential service will be available, at the hospital on C Level, Junction 3 at the following days and times:-
- Monday - Thursday: 8:30am - 7:30pm
- Friday: 9am-5pm
- Saturday: 10am-2pm
Under 25s Drop-In Service
Rotherham residents only
- Tuesday - 2pm to 6pm
- Thursday - 2pm to 6pm
For further information or to book an appointment: Telephone – 01709 427777
For more information about Chlamydia testing - http://www.rotherhamchlamydia.co.uk
Look out for your free NHS lung health check invitation
If you are between 55-74 have ever smoked you should receive an invitation and appointment in the post. If you need to change the date and time of your appointment, please call the number in the letter to rearrange.
In Doncaster, more than 17,000 people just like you have benefited from a free lung health check, why not join them? Our area will be called for between now and spring 2024.
The Lung Health Check Programme helps detect lung cancer earlier, as well as identifying other lung conditions.
To find out more visit https://rotherham-healthwave.connecthealthcarerotherham.co.uk/lung-health-checks/
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lung cancer in the previous 5 years
- Metastatic cancer (excluding metastatic prostate cancer)
- Registered on the Palliative Care Register
- Poor physical fitness such that treatment with curative intent would be contra-indicated: this can be assessed at face-to-face appointments and may require a second opinion or advice from the lung cancer Screening Review Meeting.
- Lymphoma (added to exclusion criteria in May 2021)
- Mesothelioma (added to the exclusion criteria in May 2021
A scan may not be possible due to:
- They are unable to lie flat
- They are unable to transfer onto the CT scanning bed without support, or with the support of somebody who attends the scan with them.
- They weigh more than 200kg/31.5 stones
- They do not have capacity to consent to the scan (standard criteria for assessing capacity apply).