Advice and Information

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board is hosting a Blood Pressure Awareness and Checks Event on:

🗓 Wednesday 22 October 2025
🕤 9:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Studio 2, Forest Hill Pools, Dartmouth Road, SE23 3HZ

Winter is the season of coughs, colds, and common illnesses.

We’re all more likely to get sick during the colder months, and it can be hard to know what to do when a family member isn’t feeling well 🤒.

This guide will help you decide when to treat symptoms at home 🏠 and when to seek medical advice 🩺.

Keep it somewhere safe so you can refer to it when you need it most.

For more information and to book your vaccinations, check out the poster below for local vaccination sites and booking links.

Stay protected, stay healthy ✅

Phoenix Community Housing are hosting a free Health and Wellbeing fair, with access to health and wellbeing advice, careers support, fitness information, wellbeing activities and more! Healthwatch Lewisham will also be there on the day with an information stall.

We are inviting feedback from Lewisham residents about their experience of GPs, Pharmacies, and local Hospitals.

Do you #KnowTheHigh5 symptoms of bowel cancer?

The best way to help protect your child against severe illness from polio, flu, measles, mumps, rubella, and other childhood diseases is to get them up to date with their routine vaccinations.

If you or your child are not registered with a GP, they can still get free vaccinations – contact a GP surgery.

An interactive Wellbeing Map packed with local activities, events and locations in South East London has been produced.

King's Fund developed helpful information about how GPs in England are set up and commissioned.

The local ICS developed a handy page where you can find out up-to-date waiting times for hospital outpatient services in south east London NHS hospitals.

Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) are generally made up of a group of volunteer patients, the practice manager and one or more of the GPs from the practice. Each GP Practice is required to have a PPG.

‘Because We All Care’ encourages more people to feedback on their care. The next phase of our joint campaign with CQC is planned to start at the end of August. The phase will target people with long term conditions, and we will be taking a specific look at the barriers people face to getting specialist support via their GPs.

Organisations such as ours are aware this has been going on for way too long.