We encourage all our patients to understand more about their symptoms and their condition. We invite you to take a look at our recommended selection of self help resources.
Online forms
You can complete the following forms online:
Leaflets
- Chicken pox information (PDF)
- Long Covid screening questionnaire (PDF)
- Travelling with medication (PDF)
- Verruca information (PDF)
- Available help for teens in need of support (PDF)
- Traveling with medication (PDF)
- Information leaflet on over-the-counter medicines (PDF)
- Information leaflet on gluten-free products (PDF)
Children
- What to do if your child is unwell (PDF)
- What can I do if I suspect a child is being abused?
- Kids Hub: Working with disabled children, young people and their families
- If you’re unhappy, tell someone! (PDF)
- Childline
- Kidscape
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- The Hertsmere Children’s centre
- Hertfordshire Children’s centres (PDF)
- Free online mental health support for 10 to 25-year-olds
- NHS vaccination schedule
- Complete immunisation schedule (PDF)
Contact your health visitor
Did you know you can call the duty health visitor telephone number for any non-urgent query regarding your child’s health or development?
Phone
01727 732008
Monday to Friday between 9am and 4.30 pm.
Young People and Teenagers
- Childline
- Bullying UK
- Kidscape
- NSPCC
- Brook
- Marie Stopes
- Free online mental health support for 10 to 25-year-olds
- Young Minds
- Meningitis & Septicaemia
- British Pregnancy Advisory Service
- Find services- Sexual health
- If you’re unhappy, tell someone! (PDF)
- Sex and young people
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Visiting an STI clinic
- What is contraception?
- Working with disabled children, young people and their families
- Domestic violence
Find out more about:
Female Health
- Planning to become pregnant
- Diabetes – Birth control and pregnancy advice (PDF)
- Pregnancy information sheet (PDF)
- British Pregnancy Advisory Service
- Female Genital Mutilation
Elderly care
- Elderly care
- Driving and dementia (PDF)
- Safeguarding adults
- Free NHS Health Check – helping you prevent heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and dementia (PDF)
- Keep warm keep well – information for over 60, low income family, people living with a disability (PDF)
- Top tips to keep warm and well (PDF)
- COVID-19 assistance
Cancer
- Be Clear on Cancer (PDF)
- Bowel cancer screening programme
- Bowel cancer screening kit (PDF)
- Breast cancer screening for over 70s (PDF)
- Cancer Alliance
- Cancer Care Map
- Cancer Research UK – About Cancer
- Macmillan Cancer Support
Self help advice
- A resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death (PDF)
- Back pain
- Bites and stings
- Burns
- Chicken pox
- Colds
- Community Navigators – Carers in Herts
- Depression & Anxiety (PDF)
- Diabetic care
- Diarrhoea
- Hay fever (PDF)
- Health and Wellbeing Advice Clinic – Get Going (PDF)
- Healthwatch Hertfordshire
- Helping People with chronic pain
- Hertfordshire Hearing Advisory Service
- How to take Ibuprofen for pain and inflammation
- Interactive tools, apps and podcasts to help you manage your health and care
- Minor cuts and grazes
- Moisturisers for dry skin conditions
- Muscle sprains and strains
- Pain
- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice: A guide to services
- POhWER advocacy, making your voice heard
- Relate
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sexual health
- St Albans and District Cardiac (PDF)
- St Albans exercise referral scheme (PDF)
- Stay well this winter – flu advice
- Stopping smoking
- Support after suicide
- Travel advice
- Useful links
- Vasectomy self-referral
- Weight Management information (PDF)
- Weight management – do I qualify for a FREE referral? (PDF)
- Weight management – need to lose weight before surgery?
- Wellbeing & mental health support
- Your drinking and you (PDF)
What you can expect from healthcare providers
- What can you expect from a good GP practice (PDF)
- What can you expect from a good care home (PDF)
- What can you expect from a good home-care agency (PDF)
- What can you expect from a good hospital (PDF)
- What can you expect from your dental practice (PDF)
- What does Equality and diversity in the NHS mean to you?
- What to expect from your pharmacist
- NHS services explained
- Repeat prescriptions – A short guide to safe and effective use of your medication (PDF)