Smoking and pregnancy Smoking during pregnancy is harmful to both mother and baby. The choices you make when you are pregnant affect your baby’s health as well as yours. Now you’re pregnant, there has never been a better time to stop smoking. The earlier you stop smoking in your pregnancy, the better. There’s no safe
Some people increase their use of alcohol or substances following a trauma. This is often an attempt to block out painful memories, thoughts or feelings related to the trauma.
This service supports the effective use of a wide range of medical devices by providing professional scientific and technical support and advice. The service focuses on the medical devices themselves, their characteristics and limitations, and on their application in a clinical environment. Objective advice on the whole life-cycle management of medical devices is provided in
Your Health Visitor will make contact with you and arrange to visit when your baby is between 11 and 14 days old, further visits will be discussed with you and mutually agreed. To find out more about our health visiting service, see our health visiting website and leaflet: Health Visitors – NHS Lothian | Our Services
About Wellbeing Lothian Welcome! The Wellbeing Lothian website has been developed to provide information, self-help resources and links to help you manage your mental health and wellbeing. People often tell us that it is not usually one thing – but many things – that helps them improve or maintain their wellbeing or mental health. We
The effects of a stroke may alter someone’s ability to move, feel, communicate and function. As a result of this, NHS Lothian aims to deliver stroke services both in hospital and the community that can empower people who have survived a stroke to make the best possible recovery. Following admission to hospital, patients with stroke
It’s common to experience a range of different emotions following a trauma event.
Appendix to the East Lothian (Haddington and Musselburgh) Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) Outbreak August to October 2022 Incident Management Team Report Inform and Advise letters were also sent to Lothian GPs, out of hours GP service, and hospital teams. Pear Tree Nursery Church Street / 3 August 2022 / Inform and advise letter to
A strategy for managing the catastrophic thoughts people tend to have during a panic attack.
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