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May 21, 2020

New NHS Lothian Mental Health Service

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Monday to Friday from 9am-4pm
Telephone – 01620 642963

This newly established NHS service is accessible to people aged 18 and upwards who are registered with an East Lothian GP practice and are looking for support with their mental health. The team is staffed by experienced Mental Health Occupational Therapists and Community Mental Health Nurses who will work with patients with symptoms of anxiety, emotional distress, low mood, psychosis, known mental health problems, depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

There is no requirement to contact your GP Practice first. Patients can self refer to the service by contacting the team (based at East Lothian Community Hospital) on the telephone number above. Due to the Covid19 crisis, consultations will be telephone based with the option to also use video conferencing.

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NHS Lothian Minor Injury Assessment by video call

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If you have a minor injury you can now call NHS Lothian’s Call MIA service and be given a minor injury assessment by video call in your own home.

Please call 07977 246848 where you will be offered an appointment for a private and secure video call assessment with a specialist Nurse Practitioner. The call is both private and confidential and will never be recorded. Continue reading “NHS Lothian Minor Injury Assessment by video call”

May 20, 2020

How Coronavirus is Affecting You – EU Research Project

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Edinburgh University’s Generation Scotland team and network are urgently researching the effect the Covid-19 situation – and the government’s policies regarding it – are having on the lives of people in the U.K., and, importantly, who is being affected.

It is a major survey of which interim results are already beginning to have an impact at national policy level in Scotland.

From the survey information: ‘We’d like to invite you to take part in a research Continue reading “How Coronavirus is Affecting You – EU Research Project”