Please see attached document for more information on fit to work notes.

Looking After Someone?

Caring for someone can be very difficult and many people find that they need extra help with the care they provide.

Find out what support you might be able to receive from this page, it provides lots of help and advice.

Are You A Carer? 

A carer is a person of any age who provides unpaid help and support to a relative, friend or neighbour, who cannot manage to live independently without the carer’s help, due to frailty, illness, disability or addiction.

Anyone looking after a person with an illness or disability, whatever their situation, is considered a carer with equal rights to help, support, information and services. 

If you are a carer, and you need support, please download the form below. We can pass it on to Carers of West Lothian, or West Lothian Social Work Department.

• www.carers-westlothian.com –  Carers of West Lothian.

Download Referral Form

Carers Of West Lothian

A carer is a person of any age who provides unpaid help and support to a relative, friend or neighbour, who cannot manage to live independently without the carer’s help, due to frailty, illness, disability or addiction.

Newland Medical Practice works with Carers of West Lothian in identifying hidden carers in the practice and, with the carer’s consent, will refer them to Carers of West Lothian’s information and support service. Carers of West Lothian provides an information and support service to unpaid carers throughout West Lothian.This includes emotional and practical support, links to other resources and training.The organisation is part of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers (PRTC) network of organisations and is the only organisation in West Lothian with a specific remit to support unpaid carers. The organisation is in regular contact with over 2,000 carers. Please let us know if you think you should be registered with our Health Centre as a carer.

Carers of West Lothian

Sycamore House

Quarrywood Court

Livingston, EH54 6AX

Tele: 01506 448000

Email: office@carers-westlothian.com

Web: www.carers-westlothian.com

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Carers Direct – 0808 802 0202

Free, confidential information and advice for carers.

Lines are open 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm at weekends. Calls are free from UK landlines or you can request a free call back.

You can also ask for a call back in one of more than 170 languages. You can send a query to our advisers by email. Find out more about the Carers Direct helpline.

Pharmacy team

Health board pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are becoming more involved in the care of patients in General Practice. Having the pharmacy team working in GP surgeries provides valuable medicines support, a close link with community pharmacy teams and allows GPs to focus their skills and time where they are most needed for patients who have more complex needs. Pharmacists are experts in medicines and can talk to you about how to get the best from your medicines.

Pharmacy Hub team

To further support GP practices, a new service is being launched to implement a remote pharmacy hub, which will be based within Stoneyburn Health Centre.
This service will predominately deal with Hospital Discharge letters and again be staffed by a central pharmacy team with advanced clinical skills.
Our hub team may contact patients to discuss medication changes relating to recent hospital discharges. As this team are based out with the practice at Stoneyburn Health Centre, the telephone number used to contact patients will differ from the practice telephone number.

Patients can self refer for a clinic visit by filling out a podiatry self referral form. 

Completed Referral forms can be sent via post or email – please click here for more information.

Please phone 0131 536 1627 for podiatry services

Patients do not need to be seen by the doctor first and can make an appointment with reception for this service. The practice offer telephone consultations and if you need to be seen the Mental Health Support Nurse  will book a face to face appointment for you. The service is suitable for:

• Patients from 18 years old and over.

• Patients with mild to moderate mental health symptoms who require some additional emotional and/or practical support to improve their wellbeing.

• Patients who normally cope well, who are experiencing mental health symptoms (e.g. recent relationship problems, recent bereavement, recent redundancy, family illness.

More information is available in one of our leaflets and this can be downloaded below.

Please note – This service is temporarily unavailable.

Patients do not need to be seen by the doctor first and can make an appointment with reception for this service. The practice offers telephone consultations and if you need to be seen the Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner will book a face to face appointment for you. The service is suitable for:

• All soft tissue injuries, strains, sprains and sports injuries.
• Arthritis.
• Spinal pain, neck, mid or low back pain.
• All joint pains, hips, knees, shoulders etc.
• Trapped nerves/sciatica.
• Mobility problems.
• General weakness after illness/surgery.

You need to be over the age of 16 to use this service, please see the leaflet below which gives you more information.

The Treatment Room nurses are available to do dressings, administer adult vaccinations and other various procedures. All appointments to be made at Community desk or on 01506 630771.

Please allow 3 – 4 days after blood/urine sample has been taken before phoning for a result. Please phone between the hours of 10.00 am and 5.45 pm for this service on 01506 655155.

Advice and support on how to stop smoking is provided by Quit Your Way and you can self refer by contacting them on 01506 651829 or visit their web page on NHS Inform – https://www.nhsinform.scot/care-support-and-rights/nhs-services/helplines/quit-your-way-scotland

Clinics are run by the Speech Therapist in the Community Wing of the building. Please contact Community Receptionist on 01506 630771 for clinic times.