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Health Advice
There is plenty of health information online as well as in books and on television and a search on
google can be an anxious experience. Knowing which sources are high quality and reliable is
something we can help with. We strongly recommend patient.co.uk - it is UK based and written and
edited by independent health professionals. It offers comprehensive, common sense advice.
We have developed a page for common conditions that offers detailed information about some of
the most common illnesses and problems that cause patients to consult us. Many of these can be
managed quite safely at home, without the hassle of needing to arrange an appointment at the
surgery and the information provided helps you do that.
The sites and resources listed throughout this website are our personal suggestions. We accept no
responsibility for the content of external sites, but at the same time we have recommended them
because we thought these sites would be useful to you or your family.
Our own website has information pages on travel health; mental health; sexual health; alcohol,
Contact Us
Tel: 01903 234844 Prescription Requests: 01903 282803
Fax: 01903 231734
23 Shelley Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4BS (map)
Feedback
We value your feedback about what we are doing well and what
we could do better. Please tell any member of the team, send us
an email or review us on NHS Choices - we listen carefully and
reflect on all comments.
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Template design by Andreas Viklund
Template design by Andreas Viklund
Local Resources
If you want to recommend any local, non-
profit, health related resources that might be
useful to other patients, please let us know.
Expert Patient Programme
The EPP is a training scheme that is a self
mangement course is a self-management
course developed for people who live with ANY
long-term health condition, such as heart
disease, asthma, MS, arthritis, depression,
ME/CFS or IBS.
The EPP aims to help you take more
control of your health by learning new
skills to manage your condition better on
a daily basis.
The EPP course is run over six weekly
sessions, with each session lasting two-and-a-
half-hours. It is facilitated by two
fully qualified (but not medically trained)
volunteer tutors who themselves are living
with a long-term condition.
Click for a detailed leaflet or more information.
Useful Diet and
Physiotherapy Leaflets
We use a lot of patient leaflets - most are
from patient.co.uk and are freely available. We
also use a few specialised exercise sheets,
designed by physiotherapists to speed
recovery of a range of common joint problems.
Physiotherapy
- Thoracic Spine: pain
- Lower back: pain and sciatica
- Shoulder: Aches, trapped nerves etc.
- Wrist: Sprains,
- Hand: Pain and stiffness
- Hip: Painful, clicking, catching etc.
- Knee: Sprains, clicking, swollen etc.
- Ankle: Sprains
- Foot: Plantar Fasciitis/ Policeman's Heel
(All are NHS leaflets from a variety of sources
and copyright remains with their authors)
Special Diets
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome - FODMAPS diet
- Diabetes
- Gout
- Weight loss (see also weight loss services)
We recommend Patient.co.uk
for online medical information.
You may also like NHS Direct.
Let us know how we are doing
at NHS Choices or send us a
