Useful Contacts

Telephone Numbers

  • Kings Mill Hospital: 01623 622515
  • Newark General Hospital: 01636 681681
  • Nottingham City Hospital: 0115 9691169
  • Queens Medical Centre: 0115 9249924
  • District Nurse: 01623 883022
  • Health Visitor: 01623 870805
  • Midwife: 01623 655722
  • Smoking Cessation Helpline: 0115 772 2515
  • Alcohol Problems Advisory Service: 0845 7626316
  • Alzheimer’s Disease Society: 01623 429419
  • CRUSE Bereavement Care: 01623 647645
  • MIND (Advice about Mental Health): 01623 658044
  • National Schizophrenia Advice: 01248 354048
  • NSPCC Helpline: 0800 800 500
  • Out of Hours Contact Call 111 or use the link www.nhs.uk/111
  • Patient Advice & Liaison Service: 0800 028 3693
  • GUM Clinic KMH: 01623 672260
  • Family Planning Clinic: 01623 848802

Websites

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Kings Mill and Newark Hospitals)
www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust
www.qmc.nhs.uk/

NHS Sites

NHS Choices
Aiming to personalise healthcare and provide information that will ‘allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.’


Clinical or disease information

Best Treatments
Information is researched from the British Medical Journal and displayed in an easy to understand format.

Patient UK
Designed by GPs and EMIS and is a useful source of Patient information Leaflets amongst other things.

Net Doctor
Attempts to break the language barrier between Doctors and patients regarding disease and illnesses.
Information on Healthier Living

BBC – Healthy Living
Simple, accurate advice from the BBC. Helps you to establish the dos & don’ts of living healthily.

Male Health
Fast, free independent information from the Men’s Health Forum.

Women’s Health Concern
Women’s Health Concern is a charitable organisation which aims to help educate and support women with their healthcare by providing unbiased, accurate information.