Healthy lifestyle
Practice a healthy lifestyle with – Devon Pharma
At Devon Pharma we provide healthy lifestyle advice and public health advice to patients. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to receive healthy lifestyle advice or medicines information.
Below are some useful links to help promote healthy lifestyle advice and medicines information.
Smoking cessation service
Call the free Smokefree National Helpline on 03001231044
Find Your Local Stop Smoking Service (LSSS) – Better Health – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
NHS stop smoking services help you quit – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Drugs and alcohol service
Find support near you | FRANK (talktofrank.com)
Alcohol support – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Weight management service
Weight Management Services – MoreLife UK (more-life.co.uk)
Mental health service
Find Mental health support services – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Find Mental health support for young people services – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
How to access mental health services – NHS (www.nhs.uk)
Mental Health | Livewell Southwest
Sexual health service
SHiP at The Cumberland Centre – Devon Sexual Health
Where can I get sexual health advice, now? – NHS (www.nhs.uk
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/
This site contains advices, tips and tools to help you make the best choices about your health and wellbeing.
https://patient.info/
This site contains over 4000 health information leaflets, a wellbeing centre, a free health check and thousands of discussion forums.
https://www.nhs.uk/
NHS choices contain a comprehensive list of conditions and give a detailed overview of the condition.
NHS choices also contain advice on: health living, social care support, health new and an option to search services near to you (sign posting).
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc
The electronic medicines compendium contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use in the UK.
The electronic medicines compendium has more than 9000 documents, all of which are approved and checked by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines.
The electronic medicines compendium contains two types of documents; summaries of product characteristics (SPCs) and patient information leaflets (PIL). It provides information on thousands of licensed medicines available in the UK.
https://www.cqc.org.uk/
The CQC are independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. They make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high quality care and encourage care services to improve.
Public Health Campaign
The provision of opportunistic healthy lifestyle advice and public health advice to patients receiving prescriptions who appear to:
have diabetes; or
be at risk of coronary heart disease, especially those with high blood pressure; or
who smoke; or
are overweight,
and pro-active participation in national/local campaigns, to promote public health messages to general pharmacy visitors during specific targeted campaign periods.
For more details please click on https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns
