Self-referral

Self-referral

Maternity Services

You can self-refer yourself to the maternity service.

East Sussex Maternity services care for women and their babies, during pregnancy, labour, birth, and up until one month after birth.

Please follow this link for more information on how you can refer to this service.

Emergency Dental Service

On most occasions accessing urgent care with your usual dentist is the best way to support with any ongoing care needs.

All local NHS Dental Practices are expected to help patients seeking urgent dental care regardless if they are on the practice business list or not.

The East Sussex Emergency NHS Dental Service can only treat patients who have an urgent care need that meets the strict triage criteria around clinical symptoms and attendance can only be made by appointment.

Please telephone
Eastbourne – 01323 449170
Hastings – 01424 850792
Lewes – 01273 486444

Health and Wellbeing

Who are we and how can we help?

Your Health and Wellbeing Coaches are here to support you to develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to achieve your health and wellbeing goals.

Support can be offered on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting and can support you with long-term conditions, diet, and lifestyle.

If you feel ready to make a healthy lifestyle change you can either speak to the practice or email sxicb-esx.socialprescribingreferrals@nhs.net

Drug and Alcohol use

Would you like advice and support for your Drug and Alcohol use?

You can self-refer to Change Grow Live (CGL) East Sussex to access specialist support and treatment by calling 0300 3038160

Physiotherapy Services

Do you have a problem that is affecting your bones, joints or muscles and would like an assessment from a physiotherapist?

Sussex MSK Partnership East offers a self-referral service for physiotherapy. This allows patients to access physiotherapy services without needing to see their GP/Clinician first.

If you are aged 16 or older, living in East Sussex, and registered with our practice, you can follow the link to find out more.

Social Prescribing

Your doctor isn’t the only person who can help you feel better. You can improve your health and well-being through social prescription.

Your Social Prescriber can help you with a range of issues, including Social isolation, loneliness, emotional well-being, long-term health conditions, Life changing events such as birth, retirement, bereavement, loss of confidence, financial issues, and poor health linked to housing or housing conditions.

You can either speak to someone at the surgery or email sxicb-esx.socialprescribingreferrals@nhs.net

Stop Smoking

Ready to go smoke-free?

Smoking damages your body in many ways. From the day-to-day effects on your heart and your breathing to longer-term smoking-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

Your smoke can harm your family’s health too.
No matter how long you’ve smoked, quitting can help improve your health straight away.

Health in Mind

We all go through low points at times and it is not unusual to experience symptoms such as stress and depression. Health in Mind is a free NHS service for anyone in East Sussex experiencing these kinds of emotional or psychological difficulties.

Health in Mind is a therapy service and not an urgent care or crisis service.

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