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25/04/2025

skincare & makeup workshops for those

💜 Learn practical tips & techniques, including how to enhance sparse eyebrows or loss of eyelashes, to help you look & feel like you again.

💚 Call 0300 615 4886 to book your space at the next workshop at Frimley Baptist Church on Wednesday 23 April.

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25/04/2025

Researchers at Frimley Health have recruited the first patient in the UK for a new study treating thyroid eye disease (TED).

20/04/2025

If you’ve had a Bowel Cancer testing kit through the post, don’t forget to send it back!
Catching bowel cancer early reduces your chances of getting seriously ill from it.
So, don’t just leave it in the back of a drawer - send it back today.
Find out more: https://nhs.uk/bowel

06/03/2025

The Emergency Department (ED) at will now routinely screen patients having blood tests to ensure life-saving treatment for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Patients aged 16 or over who have a blood test in ED as part of their normal care will be tested for these blood borne viruses (BBV). The conditions can be treated once diagnosed and medication helps prevent them being passed on.

“HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C are all easy to test and treat. The sooner you are diagnosed and begin your care, the quicker your body can recover,” said Dr Patrick Aldridge, principal investigator for the BBV project at Frimley Park.
“By routinely including these blood tests we can ensure you get life-saving treatment, care and support to live a normal, healthy life – all free from the NHS. Your test results, like all NHS tests, are confidential.”

Many people in the UK do not know they are living with a blood borne virus, which is why this method of testing is being adopted in hospitals across the country, successfully linking patients to treatment.

The BBV testing is an ‘opt out’ test, meaning every blood test will be screened for these viruses, unless a patient tells ED staff not to test their sample. All results will be kept confidential with patients only contacted further if a reactive or 'non-negative' result is shown.

28/02/2025

Today we think of all those with rare disease and join them in commemorating Rare Disease Day 2025

28/02/2025

04/02/2025

Sending love to everyone in the world affected by cancer…which is all of us. We are all in this together.

04/02/2025

Catching bowel cancer early reduces your chances of getting seriously ill from it. So don't just leave it in the back of a drawer - send it back today. Find out more at https://orlo.uk/nhs_uk_bowel_TWCII

04/02/2025

This World Cancer Day we would like to highlight the Lung Cancer Screening Programme, previously known as Targeted Lung Health Checks, which are helping to diagnose lung cancer earlier across our footprint.
Since the launch of the lung health checks in Frimley in 2022, 52 people have been diagnosed with lung cancer through the programme - three quarters at stages 1 and 2, making it easier to treat.
The NHS England ambition is to have lung health checks rolled out to all eligible patients by 2029.
You can find out more on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer-screening/

04/02/2025

25/01/2025

25/01/2025

This week the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced the outcome of the Government’s review into the New Hospital Programme. This re-confirmed the prioritisation of the seven RAAC schemes due to safety risks, including Frimley Park Hospital, and they are all in wave one of the programme.

For the new Frimley Park Hospital, a cost estimate of between £1.5 billion and £2 billion has been announced, which aligns with all the work we have undertaken to date.

In terms of an expected construction date, this has been listed as 2028 to 2029. However, this is an unexpected, later construction start date than we have been working towards with our national NHP colleagues. We will therefore work with our national NHP colleagues to understand why this later date has been published and will continue to drive towards the earliest possible date for construction and completion of a new Frimley Park Hospital, in conjunction with the Frimley Integrated Care Board, NHS England South-East and our NHP colleagues.

We’ll continue to keep you updated. Read the full statement here: https://bit.ly/40Mp9UD