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Online Services   Online services accessed via EMIS Access

Book an appointment with the GP on-line up to 6 weeks in advance Get access NOW!

Order repeat prescriptions on-line   Order repeat prescriptions

Access your GP electronic health record - please note you must register for this service first. See the Records Access section further below and contact the practice if you want to know how to get access to your records too. This is a FREE service available to all our eligible patients in the practice.  Access your health records

Access your GP electronic health record - please note you must register for this service first. See the Records Access section further below and contact the practice if you want to know how to get access to your records too. This is a FREE service available to all our eligible patients in the practice.  FAQs / password problems

Healthcare Websites

NHS Choices provides information on services as well as health and healthcare to help you understand your health better NHS choices

Map of Medicine provides evidence based patient pathways for over 390 conditions. It is primarily designed for doctors and nurses but is also available for patients and the public to access too Map of Medicine

Map of Medicine provides evidence based patient pathways for over 390 conditions. It is primarily designed for doctors and nurses but is also available for patients and the public to access too Local Map of Medicine

Patient.co.uk provides brief information on a wide range of conditions as well as other resources and self help groups that you can print or save as a PDF to see later Patient.co.uk

NHS Choices provides information on services as well as health and healthcare to help you understand your health better Medications A-Z
NHS Choices provides information on services as well as health and healthcare to help you understand your health better Learn about your medication
Patient.co.uk provides brief information on a wide range of conditions as well as other resources and self help groups that you can print or save as a PDF to see later Medication Information from Tameside Hospital

Map of Medicine provides evidence based patient pathways for over 390 conditions. It is primarily designed for doctors and nurses but is also available for patients and the public to access too Lab Tests Online

Map of Medicine provides evidence based patient pathways for over 390 conditions. It is primarily designed for doctors and nurses but is also available for patients and the public to access too Easyhealth
What is self care for family and friends
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  What is self care?
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital Common problems YOU can solve
NHS Direct allows you to find out what your symptoms may mean and what you should do about them Useful leaflets 
NHS Direct allows you to find out what your symptoms may mean and what you should do about them NHS Direct Symptom Checker
Map of Medicine provides evidence based patient pathways for over 390 conditions. It is primarily designed for doctors and nurses but is also available for patients and the public to access too Recording your own data
Specific Health Concerns
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Contraception
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Parenting
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Men's health and wellbeing
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Pain toolkit
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Sexual health

Patient.co.uk provides brief information on a wide range of conditions as well as other resources and self help groups that you can print or save as a PDF to see later  Travel advice

Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Embarrassing Problems
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Relate
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Are you suicidal?
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Bereavement
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Hands-only CPR
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  End of Life Care 

Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  When someone dies

Abuse
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Domestic Abuse
Self care is part of daily living and describes what we do to take care of our own health and well being. Self care is what we do to:Stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health | Meet our social and psychological needs | Prevent illness or accidents | Deal with for minor ailments and long-term conditions (such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease) | Maintain health and wellbeing after an episode of illness or when we leave hospital  Asian Domestic Abuse
Money Worries
Universal Credit
Self-Help Benefits Advisor
Looking for a Job?
Other advice

find Advice written by a patient on what to do if you have to contact the Out of Hourse service ad have access to your GP electronic heath records as well  Out of Hours advice 

Click here if you are being referred to the hospital and want to know how to get the best from Choose and Book - the IT system that hlps you to understand what hospital choices you have and be able to book into a specific appointment at any hospital on a date and time convenient to you amongst those that are available  Choose and Book 
Click here if you are being referred to the hospital and want to know how to get the best from Choose and Book - the IT system that hlps you to understand what hospital choices you have and be able to book into a specific appointment at any hospital on a date and time convenient to you amongst those that are available  Expert Patient Programme
Communicating with patients

Getting the most from this site

Shared Decision Making

Shared Decision Making
Invest in Engagement

Patient Reported Outcome Measures

Decision Aids

Patient Experience (adults)

Patient Experience (youth)

Patient Opinion
Private Health Screening

Important Messages

Computer course for beginners 

Practice Services

 Pre-consultation Care HV TH
 Asthma care HV TH
 Depression Care HV TH
 Diabetes Care HV TH
 Hypertension Care HV TH
 Pregnancy Care HV TH 
 Eczema Care HV TH 
 Immunisations Care HV TH
 Heart Disease Care HV TH
 Patient Participation Group HV TH

Local Services

COMPASS
District Nursing
Healthy Trainer Service
Healthwatch Tameside

Stay Healthy

Superbetter
Top 10 Tips 
Diski Dance
Food and Diet
Exercise & Walking
My local area
Smoke Free
Quitline
Drink Aware
Alcohol self-assessment
Weight loss blog
10 top tips
Sky Ride 2012
Olympics 2012

4 Teenagers

Teenage Health Freak
Cyber (online) Bullying
Embarrassing Problems
Connexions
Branching Out
Tameside Sports Trust
Off the Record
Knife Crimes
Sex and Young People
Talk to Frank
Youth Health talk
Teen Boys
Teen Girls
Questionnaire

Carers

Carers in Tameside
Tameside Carer's Centre
Carers Direct
Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Carers Community Blog

Health Record Access

 bullet point What is Records Access?
 bullet point Is Record Access for me?
 bullet point About Records Access
 bullet point You Tube videos on RA
 bullet point Benefits & Challenges
 bullet point Example health record
 bullet point Keeping your information safe
 bullet point Top 10 reasons for Records Access
 bullet point Radio Interview: Dr Richard Fitton
 bullet point Local Care Record Development Board
 bullet point British Medical Journal Blog
 bullet point Local MP blog
 bullet pointServices available

Talks

Are you eMPOWERed yet?
Asthma in Children 
Bowel / Lung cancer screening

Breast cancer awareness

Citizens, Genomics and the Future 
Dementia services 
Health, Technology and Social Responsibility 
Fibromyalgia
Heart disease
HPV vaccinations, cervical smears and cervical cancer
Mayor intro to practice
Prostate Cancer 
Self Care week 2010 
Self Care Week 2011
Self Care Week 2012

Sun and Skin 

Enabling Patient Access
the Haughton Thornley Medical Centres way

Quality Care

Defining Quality
Escape Fire
The Power of Information
Information: To share or not to share
HICAT: Out of adversity comes Strength and Wisdom
NHS Productivity
Improving Health Outcomes for All
Against All Odds
Our health, our care, our say
Our NHS Our Future - NHS Next Stage Review -Leading local change
High Quality Care for all: NHS Next Stage final report
What is self care ?
Healthier Horizons
Information about you

Other information

Surgery CARES - Instant Medical History
Patient Participation Group
Records Access study
Greater Manchester Clinical Assessment & Treatment Service
NHS NW Press Release on 1000 patients getting access to their records
Review of 2010
Self Care Forum
Do you want your kids to live longer? How the practice is supporting Change 4 Life and helping people to lose weight and improve their lifestyle
NHS Evidence

Videos showing you how to get the best from the website

The following 4 videos show what patients can do when they are able to access their records oinline. The videos use the Test Patient's passwords and pass phrase. You can have a go your self by clicking here to try the Test Patient record yourself.


Learn how to order prescriptions online

 



Learn how to access your GP elelctronic health records online



There are lots and lots of links on the home page to help you to understand your GP electronic health record better, what services and information is available and who to turn to for help when you need it most. There are lots and lots of things you can learn from about your health which could come in handy one day when you need it most! Spend 15 minutes today familiarising yourself with the home page and it could save you a lot of time and bother in the long run and help you and your family stay healthy.

 

Using HealthSpace to record and monitor your personal information such as blood pressure, weight or set reminders for appointments that you may have e-mailed to you. (Please note - although the home page has now been updated, HealthSpace is now within the Self Care section of the home page).

How to use Map of Medicine to help get a better understanding of your health. The video describes acute asthma in adults as an example. (This is an old video but the link to Map of Medicine is in the "Self Care" section of the home page

Here is a video showing why you should look at Practice Services and how we have made a framework to help you to learn more about your own health and how to get the best from the practice and the wider NHS. We have given examples of 6 diseases (asthma, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, eczema and depression), one normality (pregnancy) and one prevention (immunisation). Once you have understood how this works, you can have a go and "create" your own "care" and then check with clinicians to ensure it is "right"

Haughton Vale
0161 336 3005
Practice opening times
Thornley House
0161 367 7910
Practice opening times

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Out of Hours Service
0161 336 3252

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NHS Stress Hotline
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Anaesthesia for Patients

Introduction to Anaesthesia
General Anaesthesia
Regional Anaesthesia

Local Anaesthesia

Pain relief after surgery

Details will appear here of events taking place at Haughton Vale and Thornley House Medical CentresPractice
events

Forthcoming events

Patient Participation Group
Thursday 30 May 13 1:30 pm
Patient Participation Group meeting
Venue: Health Promotion Room, Thornley House Medical Centre
More details...


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Free NHS Smoking Helpline: 0800 022 4 332 - SMOKEFREE 
QUIT is the independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop.
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Register for Organ Donation with the the NHS Blood and Transplant service

Sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register, join the Wall of Life by uploading your photo and Spread the Word!

Register with Medic Alert if you suffer with a life threatening condition

RU Clear? - Chlamydia and Gonorrhoeacreening
Watch a video of Ben and Rosie - going for tests for STIs including chlamydia (dramatisation)
STI screening service - provided by Greater Manchester PCTs

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Public transport Journey Planner

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