Free Resources for Your Patients
Clear messaging can help improve health outcomes for patients. If you are looking for helpful social media resources please click one of the campaigns below to download free, useful messages to share with your patients on your website, social media sites or to print and display in house. If you have a question about any of the below resources please contact: somicb.communications@nhs.net
Campaign Contents
Choose Well Resources
Videos
- A number of videos are available on NHS Somerset’s YouTube channel with seasonal messaging to help advise people on how to stay well and where to go if they are injured or unwell.
- Click here to view our You Tube channel and share videos with you patients or choose from the selection below:
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
Scroll down for social media image cards for various campaigns, these can be used on Facebook or Twitter or your website:
Summer:
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 to display in house
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
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:
