Resources for your patients
We want to help you improve health outcomes for your patients. In this section we will share useful campaign resources to use on your practice website, social media sites or to print for use in the surgery.
Contents
- General Choose Well resources
- Social media resources
- COVID-19 Vaccinations and boosters
- Help us, Help you this summer
- Stay Well This Winter
- Be patient, be kind resources
- GP access and pressures
- Community Pharmacy (Think Pharmacy)
- What to do if your child is ill
- NHS111 resources
- Pharmacy resources
General Choose Well resources

This poster can be printed and used anywhere to encourage patients to use the most appropriate service for their healthcare needs.
Stay Well This Winter
Social media resources
Videos
A number of videos are available on the Somerset CCG YouTube site with messaging to help advise people on how to Stay Well This Winter and where to go if they are injured or unwell. See the ‘Stay Well This Winter’ playlist including videos on:
COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters
Help us Help you this summer
Posters
Posters for use online or for printing and using as you wish are shown below.
Social media resources
Social media image cards for use on Facebook or Twitter are shown below.
Videos
A number of videos are available on the Somerset CCG YouTube site with messaging to help advise people on where to seek help with common summer healthcare problems. See the ‘Choose Well – Help Us Help You this summer‘ playlist including videos on:
Be patient, be kind
Social media image cards to remind patients to be kind, that the NHS is busy and to be patient are shown below.
GP access and pressures – how GP Practices are working differently
The resources below are related to GP access and current pressures.
Poster explaining how GP Practices are now working differently. Covers:
- How GP practices are working now?
- What is triage?
- Why do receptionists ask personal questions?
- I wanted to see my GP, why am I seeing someone else?
- What about emergencies?
- Where else can I get help?
Social media resources
Community Pharmacy (Think Pharmacy)
The resources below are related to the GP Community Pharmacy Consultation Service, with the current campaign ‘Think Pharmacy’ running across Somerset.
Posters
Social media resources
What to do when your child is ill
Videos
HANDi Paediatric app
The HANDI app offers simple and straightforward advice, for the following conditions in children:
- diarrhoea and vomiting
- high temperature
- ‘chesty baby’ illnesses, such as bronchiolitis, asthma and croup
- ‘chesty child’ illnesses such as wheezing and asthma
- abdominal pain
- common newborn problems.
Download the HANDi App for Android phones at Google Play.
For iPhone or iPad you can download it from the app store or iTunes, using the search term ‘HANDi App’.
RSV and bronchiolitis
Cases of respiratory illness in children are higher than usual for this time of year. Some social media resources on RSV and bronchiolitis are below for your use and an information sheet to enable patients to assess symptoms is available here.
NHS 111 First
Social media resources
Social media image cards for use on Facebook or Twitter are shown below. Click here to download a zip file of all four graphics.
Leaflets
Video
A number of videos are available on the Somerset CCG YouTube site with messaging to help advise people on how NHS111 can help and what happens when they contact NHS111. See the ‘How NHS111 can help you’ playlist including videos on:
Pharmacy
Social media image cards for use on Facebook or Twitter are shown below. Click here to download a zip file of all four graphics.