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Help save the NHS £300 million: Public urged to act as over one billion prescription items are wasted every year
The NHS is urging the public to check their medicine cabinets as shocking figures reveal that more than one billion prescription items are wasted each year, costing the NHS over £300 million annually. GP prescribing spend nationally is £10.3 billion a year. NHS England’s National Overprescribing Report shows that around 10% of primary care prescriptions…
Read MoreNational Maternity and Neonatal Investigation launches call for public to share experiences
Baroness Amos, Chair of the independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, is asking women and families to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal care in England, through a public Call for Evidence. Listening to lived experience is central to the investigation, and the Call for Evidence will ensure that the voices of women and…
Read MoreHave Your Say: Take the Somerset Health Data Survey
We want to hear from you As part of our work to improve health and care services across Somerset, NHS Somerset has teamed up with Healthwatch Somerset to launch a new Somerset Health Data Survey. This is your chance to share your views on how the NHS stores and uses your health data and help…
Read MoreSomerset campaign shares real-life stories to mark Know Your Numbers! Week
A former BBC correspondent and the boss of a local coach company are the faces of a campaign in Somerset encouraging people to know their blood pressure – and potentially save their lives. Public Health and NHS Somerset are joining forces with Blood Pressure UK’s Know Your Numbers! Week (8 -14 September 2025) to raise…
Read MoreGet involved: Celebrating International Clinical Trials Day – 20 May 2025
NHS Somerset and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust have joined forces to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day on Tuesday 20 May, recognising the vital role research plays in improving healthcare. Researchers are always looking for ways to find new and better ways to treat conditions and improve care. There are lots of opportunities for people to…
Read MoreAcute hospital-based stroke services in Somerset – one week left to have your say
On 30 January, the NHS in Somerset, launched a public consultation on the future of acute hospital-based stroke services in Somerset. The consultation runs for 12 weeks until midnight on Monday 24 April 2023. There is one week left for you to tell us your views on the proposed options for the future of hyper…
Read MoreThe NHS is turning 75 we need your help to tell our Somerset Story
This year, on Wednesday 5 July the NHS is celebrating a big birthday – an amazing 75 years old. Formed at a time of great uncertainty in 1948 but created with optimism and hope the founding principles of the NHS remain as relevant and valued today as they did then. While a lot has changed…
Read MoreWant to hear the CCGs findings from their engagement on the early thinking about the about future community health and care services for people in Somerset?
The CCG want to support the health and wellbeing of all of the people of Somerset, by changing the way health and care services in the county are delivered. As part of this work, in Spring 2020 members of the public were invited to consider an emerging model of community care and same day urgent…
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