Swine flu

Health Focus - Nov 2009
Health Focus will be distributed to homes and public places from November 9. Free copies can also be obtained from the Health and Community Care Information Service at 10 King Street or by calling 01902 831831, or click here to download an electronic copy.







 Do I Need the Swine Flu and / or Winter Flu Jab?

 The National Pandemic Flu Service is a new dedicated website - www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu - and phoneline 0800 1 513 100 (or 0800 1 513 200 Textphone) for people to check their symptoms and get a unique number which will give them access to antivirals if necessary.

As swine flu spreads, it is important to be able to recognise its symptoms. People who have two of the following symptoms and a temperature of 38° C and above or feels hot may have swine flu.
The typical symptoms are:

• sudden fever (a high body temperature of 38C/100.4F or above), and
• sudden cough.

Other symptoms may include: headache  |  tiredness  |  chills  |   aching muscles  |  limb or joint pain  |  diarrhoea or stomach upset  |  sore throat  |  runny nose  |  sneezing  |  loss of appetite

Log on to www.direct.gov.uk/pandemicflu or call 0800 1 513 100 or 0800 1 513 200 (Textphone)

Click here for more information on swine flu

Latest News

Wolverhampton Tackles Heavyweight Problem
Using cartoon characters to encourage children to eat healthily, setting up youth gyms and taking part in a national scheme to weigh and measure primary school children are among initiatives introduced by Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust to tackle childhood obesity and improve the health and wellbeing of children in the city.

Wolverhampton PCT Provider Services - Mixed sex accommodation We are committed to patient privacy and dignity in our in-patient services. As part of this commitment we have been working to improve gender segregation within our wards to maximise privacy - click on the link to find out more.

Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care 
Official Opening of Ettingshall Medical Centre
The first of the GP Practices provided under the Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care Programme was officially opened by Barry Picken, Chairman of Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust on the 29th September. Click here for more details.

What's New? 

Record of Decisions made at the November 2009 PCT Board meeting

Aiming High for Disabled Children Statement - September 2009

Safeguarding Children / Vulnerable Adults Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust believes that safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults is ‘Everyone’s Business’. We also recognise that as a commissioner and provider to health and care services, we must meet the highest standards possible. Click here to read more

Individual Funding Requests Policy
The PCT is required to have a clear and rational framework in which to make decisions regarding the funding of treatments which fall outside the range of normally commissioned services. The framework for individual funding requests provides a process by which exceptional circumstances relating to an individual's care or treatment needs to be considered and sets down key principles to ensure that it operates equitably and fairly.  For enquiries please contact Dorothy McIntosh by calling 01902 444888. Click here to download the new policy which came into operation on 1st June 2009.

Healthy Eating Recipe Library 
A library of healthy recipes, covering a wide variety of different food types, is now available via the link above.