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Pound Hill Medical Group
Appointments and Enquiries:
Tel: 0844 477 1816; Fax: 0844 477 1817
Pound Hill Surgery
1 Crawley Lane,
Pound Hill, Crawley,
West Sussex, RH10 7DX
- Out-of-hours doctor: Tel: 020 8390 9992
- Out-of-hours dentist: Tel: 01737 768511
- District Nurse Team - Tel: 0844 477 1816
- Health Visitors - Tel: 0844 477 1815
NHS Direct Online or Tel 0845 4647 (Deaf or hard of hearing - Tel: 0845 606 4647)
for answers to common health questions, advice and details of local doctors, pharmacists and dentists.
Accidents & Injuries
Dial 999 or 112 for police, fire service, ambulance or coastguard
Causalty departments for Accident & Emergency (i.e. more serious conditions):
- East Surrey Hospital (Tel: 01737 768511), Canada Avenue, Redhill, Surrey (9 miles)
- Princess Royal Hospital (Tel: 01444 441881), Lewes Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex (11 miles)
Walk-in Centre for Minor injuries and ailments
Most walk-in centres are open from 7am to 10pm, Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 10pm at weekends.
- Minor injuries and ailments: local walk-in centre at Crawley Hospital (Tel: 01293 600300)
Minor Ailments Service - Kamsons Pharmacy, 4 Pound Hill Parade (Tel: 01293 513336)
Under this scheme, a pharmacist can supply medicines from an agreed list if appropriate to your needs if you are suffering from one of the following:
- colds, cough or flu, cold sores, conjunctivitis, constipation, contact dermatitis, diarrhoea, dry skin, ear wax
- hay fever, headaches, head lice, indigestion and heartburn, insect bites and stings, mouth ulcers, nappy rash
- nausea and vomiting, sore throat, sprain or strain, teething, threadworms, travel sickness, vaginal thrush, warts and veruccas.
Pharmacists participating in this service are Kamsons of 4 Pound Hill Parade, Pound Hill, Crawley RH10 7EA (Tel: 01293 513336), Rivermead, Boots, Chemicare, Crawley Chemist, Crombie and Salder, Geddes, Jades, Kassam, Lloyds, Manning, Moss and Williams.
Services for the elderly and disabled
- Age Concen
- Age Concern Horsham's quarterly magazine - The Arun (info on Home Helps)
- Anchor Staying Put - Our aim is to provide you with guidance and assistance to carry out whatever repairs, improvements or adaptations are necessary to help you to continue living in your own home. We will help you through the process of having work carried out from beginning to end. And, as a not-for-profit organisation, our main concern is ensuring you receive the best possible service with the minimum of worry. Roofing, chimneys and gutters, Structural, Extensions, Doors and windows, Damp proofing, Plumbing, Rewiring and electrical work, Insulation, Heating and gas fire service, Adaptations including showers, downstairs toilets and downstairs bedrooms Security improvements.
For Crawley and Mid-Sussex: 49 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath RH16 3BN, Contact Clare on Tel: 01444 415 475 or email: midsusssexandcrawley@anchor.org.uk
For Brighton and Hove: Intergen House, 2nd Floor, 56/67 Western Road, Hove BN3 2JQ, Tel: 01273 820895, email: stayingput.brightonhove@anchor.org.uk. - Brighton and Hove Daily Living Centre - Free impartial information and advice, available to anyone, on all aspects of daily living equipment. We have an information service, an in-house Occupational Therapist and an equipment display comprising of products for physical, visual and hearing impairments. We are open Monday to Friday from 10am until 4pm for telephone enquiries and general information. For the trial of equipment we run a ‘drop in day’ every Wednesday and offer appointments with our Occupational Therapist on all other weekdays.
- Brighton and Hove: Mobility Equipment Suppliers
- Disability grants - Crawley Council has schemes to help older and vulnerable people to remain living independently in their own homes. People with disabilities may be able to apply for a means-tested grant of up to £25,000 to adapt their homes. These can be used for such things as widening doors, access ramps, stair lifts and level access showers. To qualify, you will need to be assessed by an Occupational Therapist from Crawley Social Services Department. Call West Sussex Social & Caring Services on 01293 895100 or the Council on 01293 438418.
- Community Equipment Service - this West Sussex County Council service (thought to be the largest of its kind in the country) is run by NRS National Care on behalf of West Sussex County Council and the five Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in West Sussex: Adur, Arun and Worthing, Crawley, Horsham and Chanctonbury, Mid Sussex and Western Sussex. The service runs from a central depot in Littlehampton, providing equipment like: (a) Daily Living equipment like bath seats, toilet frames and grab rails (b) Hoists and manual handling equipment (c) Nursing equipment such as special beds and pressure prevention mattresses (d) Equipment for people with sensory impairments (e.g. blind, partially sighted, Deaf, deafened or hard of hearing) (e) Specialist equipment for children with physical disabilities(f) The new service means health and social care professionals including Occupational Therapists, Community Nurses and Physiotherapists can place equipment orders electronically and will be able to track the process of an order online
- Carelink alarms for elderly or disabled residents in Brighton and Hove
- Community alarms for elderly or disabled residents in West Sussex.
- Disabled Living Foundation
- Help The Aged
- ICIS information for life - enabling people in West Sussex to find help
- OT Connect - The adults' OT service for West Sussex. To qualify for an assessment by the occupational therapists working with adults, which liaise closely with health service colleagues and the eight local district and borough councils, you would usually need to be referred by your GP or local social services. To make a referral, please contact your local adults' office. Or contact OT Connect Direct use their eligibility criteria to decide whether they can help and the level of priority if they can. There might be a six-month wait. Where possible, they try to authorise technicians to deliver and fit small items to help reduce service delays to people who have urgent need of our help.
- Visual Guide (PDF) to The Brighton and Hove Daily Living Centre.
Products for the elderly and disabled - online shops
- ASM Medicare - e.g. perching stool | walker trolley | 28-page PDF catalogue
- DLF Data - The UK's only comprehensive, impartial database of disability equipment. Log-in
- Childerhouse Medical - e.g. Walkers
- Clearwell Mobility, Burgess Hill - e.g. Drop-down support rail with leg | walkers
- Cobolt Systems - products for the blind or visually impaired - e.g. big button telephone
- GBL Mobility Warehouse - e.g. adjustable height walker trolley
- Help The Aged Online Shop - e.g. Emporia Life Plus Mobile Phone with alert red button: calls and texts
rambler trolley for those with poor grip or limited strength | sheet magnifier | Hear Easy telephone
Pride Chair Bed Rise & Recliner - Living Made Easy - compare products
- Mobility World - e.g. ramps
- MP3 Player for audiobooks or music with SD card, USB cable and FM radio | Calibre Audio Library for free audio books
- OT Connect - list of equipment
- Royal National Institute for The Blind - e.g. big button telephone with alert function
Doro PhoneEasy 410 mobile phone | MP3 Audiobook SD Player & FM Radio - Welland Medical - e.g. shower chairs | perching stools | ramps
Adaptations for the elderly &/or disabled - e.g. bathrooms
- Access Mobility - the South's leading supplier of adaptations. are suppliers for disabled kitchen fittings & disabled bathroom equipment and for use by less able people, based in Burgess Hill.
- DLF Data - The UK's only comprehensive, impartial database of disability equipment. Log-in
- Disabled Living Foundation
- Factsheets from the Disabled Living Foundation giving general advice, find equipment, bath & shower information, professional product database.
Lamps for power cuts
Pound Hill, Crawley, had a long power cut on 16th November affecting over 200 people. Rather than have elderly friends and relatives search for candles and matches, a good early Christmas present to help them in the next power cut may be any or all of the following:
16LED CRAFTLIGHT MAINS OR BATTERY OPERATED 2500LUX FULL SPECTRUM SUITABLE FOR SAD: FREE SHIPPING ON THIS ITEM UNTIL CHRISTMAS - uses 3 AA batteries or mains adapter
I was drawn to this by the generous amount of white light and the efficient use of batteries
Duracell Plus Alkaline AA Batteries Pack of 12 MN1500
In a power cut, it could be that rechargable batteries have not been recently charged, so I have gone for the normal ones.
Proteam TO1012 - 12 LED Wind Up Energy Saving Large Lantern
If batteries or candles have been used up, the wind-up lantern still offers a solution which many elderly people will take to.