Pharmacies in Leyton

Here is a list of pharmacies in Leyton. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports.
Advice and Information

Pharmacies in Chingford

Here is a list of pharmacies in Chingford. Contains links to pharmacies' websites, their entries on the NHS website and General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) inspection reports.
Advice and Information

Get Involved: Three Charities, One Volunteering Opportunity

We’re excited to be part of Volunteering Link – a new five-year project that brings together volunteering opportunities across Healthwatch Waltham Forest, Waltham Forest Community Hub, and Carers First under one coordinated programme. It’s designed to make volunteering easier, more flexible, and more rewarding for local people.
News

Fewer people miss hospital appointments

Barts Health NHS Trust have seen a significant fall in the number of people missing appointments since the introduction of the patient portal in April.
News

New X-Ray suite at Whipps Cross

A brand-new digital X-ray room equipped with a brand new x-ray scanner, bringing faster diagnostics and improved comfort for inpatients has opened at Whipps Cross Hospital.
News

Health research in Walthamstow

Our Future Health, the UK’s largest health research programme, is coming to two locations in Walthamstow in June. The programme is designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection, and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and dementia.
News

Opportunity to shape future research into delirium at ACHA

Academic Centre for Healthy Aging (ACHA), based at Whipps Cross Hospital, is running a workshop that will help shape our future research into delirium—a serious and often sudden change in thinking and awareness that can affect people during illness or hospital stays.
News

Insights for the 10 Year Plan for Health

The Good Care Framework. What does good care look like? The good care framework was developed from what local people told us in our Big Conversation.
We asked local people open-ended questions about what good health and care means to them. At community events and in focus groups we helped local people to draw out what their own vision of good care would look like.

We took what they told us and and started to use qualitative data coding to identify themes, these themes eventually developed into the good care framework and our four pillars of good care, or four aspects of what makes the difference between good care and inadequate care. We also looked at the wider issues that impact good care at a society level-the wider determinants.
Report

Digital inclusion in North East London

What we know about digital inclusion in North East London. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many healthcare, social care and community services started to offer an online provision; either complementing or replacing their face to face services; post-pandemic, there are lessons to be learned about
maintaining and sustaining this change without leaving anyone behind.
Report