Carers Rights Day 2025
Each year your GP Practice, Carers UK, hundreds of organisations and thousands of people raise awareness of caring, helping to identify carers and signposting them to information, advice and support.
This Carers Rights Day, as well as there being information and advice displays in your GP Practice, there is a local Primary Care Network drop-in event that you can attend. At the event you can talk to GP Practice Carers Leads about available support and find lots of useful information.
Come along on Friday 21st November to Christ Church, 28 Northmead Dr, Poole BH17 7XZ
No need to book, just drop in between 1-3pm or check out some of the other events happening near you.
Consultations of prescriptions of gluten-free food
Have your say at the consultation discussing whether the NHS should continue to provide prescriptions for gluten-free bread of flour mixes, for people in Dorset with a diagnosis of coeliac disease of dermatitis herpetiformis. Please see the link below to find out more and complete the survey!
Changes to gluten-free NHS prescriptions – NHS Dorset
Weight Loss Injections
You may have heard that weight loss injections are now available on the NHS. Whilst this is technically true each area has to commission a service to deliver this which will happen in Dorset by the autumn. The criteria for those considering this is:
- an initial body mass index (BMI) of at least 35 kg/m2*; and
- at least 1 weight-related comorbidity **
*Use a lower BMI threshold (usually reduced by 2.5 kg/m2) for people from South Asian, Chinese, other Asian,
** hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obstructive sleep apnoea, cardiovascular disease,
type 2 diabetes mellitus
For more information please follow the link https://nhsdorset.nhs.uk/health/medicines/weight/
Cervical Screening.
At the moment, in England, women and people with a cervix aged 25-49 years are routinely invited for screening every 3 years. Now we have this better test for HPV (human papillomavirus) , the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) has recommended that those testing negative, and with no recent history of HPV, won’t need to come for a cervical screening quite so often – every 5 years instead of every 3. If your cervical screening shows you have HPV, you may be invited for more frequent screenings to check HPV has cleared and if not, if any cell changes have developed.
