Your health in Dacorum

There are now more ways than ever to get information on leading a healthy lifestyle or advice and treatment for medical conditions. Using the right health service for you helps the NHS to allocate its resources correctly.

Feeling unwell? Find the right NHS service for you

• For 24-hour health advice, ring 111 or visit www.nhs.uk.
• From 8am to 8pm, every day of the week, you can see a GP at West Herts Medical Centre.
• Urgent care centre at Hemel Hempstead Hospital - open between 8am and 10pm every day. For those conditions that need to be treated urgently but are not life-threatening or very serious - for example, sprains, strains, fractures, wounds, burns, scalds, minor head injuries, bites, stings, cuts and grazes.

Leading a healthy lifestyle

• Need help to stop smoking? Visit www.nhs.uk/smokefree for more information. Alternatively, the Hertfordshire Stop Smoking Service offers free professional specialist advice and support to smokers. 
• Change4Life helps families eat well, move more and live longer. 
• NHS Choices offers all the information you need to make the right choices about your health.

Pharmacies

• Find your nearest pharmacy and find out more information about the services your pharmacist can offer.

Local views

Changes to hospital services in Hemel Hempstead have been strongly opposed by the Dacorum Hospital Action Group. The group was formed in 1975 and has campaigned to keep vital hospital services in Hemel Hempstead.