The Accident and Emergency departments at Wexham Park and Frimley Park Hospitals are currently under extreme pressure. Help us help you access the right service for your healthcare needs. Unless it’s a severe or life-threatening condition remember there’s lots of alternatives for you use instead of going to A&E: 

• Visit your local pharmacy
• During the day contact your GP practice via an online consultation or phone
• Contact NHS 111 online, www.111.nhs.uk or dial 111. If you are calling NHS 111, please be patient. NHS 111 may advise you to contact your GP or its out-of-hours service or attend the Bracknell Minor Injuries Unit.
• For minor injuries, such as sprains and strains, suspected broken limbs, minor head injuries, visit the Minor Injury Unit at Brants Bridge in Bracknell – open 8am-8pm 7 days a week. X-ray available Sunday to Friday
• For babies, children and young people, visit Frimley Healthier Together, for simple traffic light advice on what to do when they are unwell or injured https://bit.ly/FHTICB22
• Anyone with a life-threatening condition should call 999.

It’s that time of year again! As the weather is getting warmer, can I ask that you cascade this water and window safety video clip across your organisations and beyond.  Most of you have seen the clip and it is still relevant for parents and carers.  

The CCG East of Berkshire produced the following short video clip in 2017 and the message remains important today and can be used widely across the health economy and by our partners across all organisations.  Using messages around water safety and window safety, we decided to produce the video in response to increasing concerns about the distractions of mobile phones in particular and how use of electronic devices may impact on risks to supervision of babies and children. We are conscious that many children are at home, the weather is good and water play will increase during Covid.

Could you please consider how you may be able to use the clip across your agencies; feel free to share this widely and use in screens in waiting rooms, surgeries etc especially over the spring and summer months.

I am also taking the opportunity to send the water safety and rivers clip that Slough Borough Council have produced; again, please use within your organisations.