Vida Healthcare

Vida Healthcare Patient-focused GP Practice providing exceptional healthcare and diverse services. Since 1995 we have held accreditation as Investors in People.

Opening Hours:
*Gayton Road - 08:00 to 18:30 Mon-Fri
*Carole Brown - 08:00 to 18.30 Mon-Fri
*The Hollies (Downham Market) - 08:00 to 18:30 Mon-Fri (Extended hours Monday until 19.00)
*Hunstanton - 08:00 to 18:30 Mon-Fri, 09:00 to 12:00 Weekends (Closed at 13:00 - 14:00 on Tues and Thurs)
*St Augustine's - 08:00 - 17:30 Mon to Fri (St Augustine's is closed 13.00 - 14.00 everyday)

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Vida Healthcare is a traditional GP Partnership established for over 60 years in Kings Lynn. Instead of being ‘Dr X and Partners’ we call ourselves by the more modern name of Vida Healthcare (Vida being Spanish for ‘Life’). We are the largest GP Practice in Norfolk with a responsibility for caring for almost 35,400 patients. We have three Surgeries in Kings Lynn (22000 patients) one in Downham Market (2600 patients), another at Dersingham (6000 patients) and one in Hunstanton (4800 patients) We are the only Practice in Norfolk to hold the Quality Practice Award accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners. We have a team of 18 doctors, about 25 nurses and about 50 support staff. Several of our nurses have prescribing rights and they provide acute and chronic care. Several of them are very specialized and they run the chronic care clinics. Other nurses provide a treatment room service and clinical nursing assistants offer phlebotomy and other tests. District nurses are based at all 3 Centres and others e.g. midwife and dietician visit regularly. We have a dispensary at our Dersingham surgery.

28/11/2025

🩹😣 Got a splinter? Whether it's a tiny piece of wood, glass, or metal, a splinter can be surprisingly painful - and if left untreated, could lead to infection 🦠

👉 In this helpful video, you’ll learn:
✔️ How to remove a splinter safely using tweezers
✔️ Tips to prevent infection
✔️ When to get medical help

💡 Don’t ignore it! Even a small splinter can cause problems if not removed correctly.

🧼 Always wash your hands and clean the area before & after removal.
If redness, swelling, or pus appears - seek medical advice 🧑‍⚕️

📚 Learn more about treating cuts, grazes & minor wounds:
👉 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cuts-and-grazes/

👍 First aid essentials for your home:

🌟 https://patient.info/news-and-features/essential-first-aid-items-for-your-home

📦 Track your prescriptions like a parcel!The NHS App now offers real-time updates on your prescriptions—see when they're...
27/11/2025

📦 Track your prescriptions like a parcel!

The NHS App now offers real-time updates on your prescriptions—see when they're ready to collect or out for delivery.

No more waiting on hold or unnecessary trips to the pharmacy.

Available at nearly 1,500 pharmacies, including all Boots in England, with more coming soon

Download the NHS App and stay in the loop: https://ow.ly/nie850XojIG

Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/KM2X50XojIz

🫁💙 Living with COPD? While there’s no cure, there’s plenty you can do to manage it and improve your quality of life. COP...
26/11/2025

🫁💙 Living with COPD? While there’s no cure, there’s plenty you can do to manage it and improve your quality of life. COPD happens when the lungs become inflamed, damaged and narrowed - often due to smoking, long‑term exposure to dust/fumes or genetic factors.

Here are some ways to live well with COPD:
🔹 Stop smoking - the single most effective step.
🔹 Take inhalers and follow your treatment plan to reduce flare‑ups.
🔹 Stay active, eat well, keep weight in check and avoid triggers like pollution or cold air.
🔹 Be alert to symptoms like persistent cough with phlegm, shortness of breath or wheezing - mention them to your GP.

Need more support or want to learn how to cope?
👉 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease-copd/
👉 https://patient.info/news-and-features/how-to-live-healthily-with-copd

🤢💧 Vomiting and diarrhoea affect both children and adults, but the risks and care needs can differ. Here’s what to watch...
24/11/2025

🤢💧 Vomiting and diarrhoea affect both children and adults, but the risks and care needs can differ. Here’s what to watch out for and how to respond 🧠

👶 Children vs 🧔 Adults - What’s Different?

Children:
‑ Dehydrate more quickly - loss of fluid builds up faster
‑ More vulnerable to electrolyte imbalance
‑ May refuse drinking or have a harder time telling how they feel
‑ Risk signs: dry nappies, sunken eyes, irritability, listlessness

Adults:
‑ Might manage symptoms longer before seeking help
‑ Risk of complications if they have chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes, kidney disease)
‑ The underlying cause can vary (infection, foodborne, side effect of meds)

✅ What to Do (For All Ages)
🛌 Rest & stay home
💧 Sip small amounts of fluids frequently
🍚 Once able, introduce bland, easy-to-digest foods
🧼 Wash hands often, especially after bathroom or caring for sick
❌ Avoid preparing food for others until 48 hours after symptoms subside

⚠️ When to Seek Medical Help
Watch for these red flags (in both children & adults):

• Persistent vomiting or diarrhoea lasting more than a few days
• Blood in vomit or stool
• Unable to keep fluids down
• Signs of dehydration (dizziness, extreme thirst, low urine output)
• High fever or unexplained pain

More trusted advice here:
👉 https://www.nhs.uk/symptoms/diarrhoea-and-vomiting/

Stay alert, act early, and take care 💚

If you’re feeling unwell and suspect you have a virus, stay at home to stop it spreading it to others. If you need advic...
23/11/2025

If you’re feeling unwell and suspect you have a virus, stay at home to stop it spreading it to others.
If you need advice, NHS 111 can tell you what to do next.
www.winterwellnorfolkwaveney.co.uk

🥦🧠 It’s Malnutrition Awareness Week - and while it’s often associated with undernutrition, malnutrition can affect anyon...
21/11/2025

🥦🧠 It’s Malnutrition Awareness Week - and while it’s often associated with undernutrition, malnutrition can affect anyone, even those trying to lose weight.

Healthy eating isn’t just about cutting calories - it’s about getting the nutrients your body needs to thrive 💪

💡 Did you know?
⚠️ Weight loss medications like Mounjaro, Wegovy or Saxenda can reduce appetite so much that people may miss out on essential nutrients.
⚠️ Malnutrition symptoms can be subtle - like fatigue, slow healing, or feeling cold all the time.
⚠️ Even if you're eating, you could be missing key vitamins or minerals.

✅ Learn more:
🍽️ NHS Better Health tips: https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/
📋 Malnutrition symptoms: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/malnutrition/symptoms/
💊 Weight loss med side effects: https://onlinedoctor.boots.com/weight-loss/wegovy-saxenda-side-effects
🥕 10 nutrients you might be lacking: https://patient.info/news-and-features/10-essential-nutrients-you-might-be-lacking

Eat well. Stay strong. Be informed. 💚

👨‍⚕️📋 International Men’s Day is approaching – and it’s the perfect moment to prioritise our health checks!Did you know ...
19/11/2025

👨‍⚕️📋 International Men’s Day is approaching – and it’s the perfect moment to prioritise our health checks!

Did you know the NHS offers a free health check for adults to help spot risks like heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and more? Check it out:
👉 https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/nhs-health-check

Want to know what happens at the check? Learn more at:
👉 https://patient.info/news-and-features/what-to-expect-at-an-nhs-health-check

📌 This is important for every man – whether you feel fine or not. Strong health starts with awareness and action.

Millions of people are using the NHS App to manage their health the easy way, from ordering a prescription to checking t...
18/11/2025

Millions of people are using the NHS App to manage their health the easy way, from ordering a prescription to checking their records.

Find out more about the NHS App ➡️ nhs.uk/app

If you catch a winter virus, you’re more likely to have milder symptoms and recover quicker, if you’ve had your vaccine....
18/11/2025

If you catch a winter virus, you’re more likely to have milder symptoms and recover quicker, if you’ve had your vaccine.

If you’re eligible, book your free flu, COVID-19 and RSV vaccines today.

🧠 ANTLER 75+ Research Trial – Participants WantedA new research study is looking for adults aged 75 or over who are curr...
17/11/2025

🧠 ANTLER 75+ Research Trial – Participants Wanted

A new research study is looking for adults aged 75 or over who are currently taking Citalopram (20mg), Mirtazapine (30mg), or Sertraline (50mg) for depression, and who feel well enough to consider whether they may be able to stop their medication.

The study aims to understand whether it is better for people aged 75+ to continue their antidepressant for another 12 months, or gradually reduce and stop.

📋 What’s involved?
Eligible participants will be randomly assigned to either:
A. Continue their current antidepressant, or
B. Gradually reduce and stop, replacing it with a placebo (dummy tablet)

Researchers will stay in contact by phone roughly every 4 weeks for around 12 months.

💬 Interested?
If you think you might be eligible and would like to learn more, please speak to your GP who can provide further information.

📞 Research team contact: +44 20 3987 2753
📧 Email: g.kasket@ucl.ac.uk

🦠💊 Antibiotics are powerful medicines - but they aren’t always the answer. Using them when they’re not needed can cause ...
17/11/2025

🦠💊 Antibiotics are powerful medicines - but they aren’t always the answer. Using them when they’re not needed can cause harm and make future infections harder to treat.

Here’s what you should know:
✔️ They only work against bacterial infections, not viruses like colds or flu.
✔️ Overuse is driving antibiotic‑resistance (“superbugs”) - which means common infections can become untreatable.
✔️ Do these things to help protect their effectiveness:
‑ Only take antibiotics when prescribed by a healthcare professional
‑ Complete the full course exactly as directed
‑ Never save antibiotics for later or share them with others

📚 Learn more here:
👉 https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/antibiotics/antibiotic-antimicrobial-resistance/
👉 https://patient.info/news-and-features/why-antibiotics-should-not-be-overused

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Tuesday 8am - 6:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 6:30pm
Thursday 8am - 6:30pm
Friday 8am - 6:30pm

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Opening Hours: *Gayton Road - 08:15 to 18:30 Mon-Fri *Carole Brown - 08:15 to 18.30 Mon-Fri *The Hollies (Downham Market) - 08:30 to 18:00 Mon-Fri (Extended hours Monday until 19.00) *Hunstanton - 08.00 to 16.30 Mon-Fri, 09.00 to 12.00 Weekends (Closed at 13.00 - 14.00 on Tues and Thurs) *Fairstead - 08.00 - 17.30 Mon to Fri, 09.00 - 12.00 Sat (Fairstead Weekend Clinic runs every alternative Saturday and are appointment only with the Dr's and Nurses) *St Augustines - 08.00 - 17.30 Mon to Fri (St Augustines is closed 13.00 - 14.00 everyday) Extended hours appointments available at all surgeries. *At Gayton Road and Carole Brown it is now possible to book an appointment to see a GP during our additional early morning and late evening surgeries. The times for these are as follow: Mornings - Monday to Friday 7.30am - 8.15am Evenings - Monday to Friday 6.30pm - 7.00pm. PLEASE NOTE: These times are for pre-booked appointments only and the surgeries will not be open for any other business during these extended hours. Only those with booked appointments will be let into the building. ****************************************************** Vida Healthcare is a traditional GP Partnership established for over 60 years in Kings Lynn. Instead of being ‘Dr X and Partners’ we call ourselves by the more modern name of Vida Healthcare (Vida being Spanish for ‘Life’). We are the largest GP Practice in Norfolk with a responsibility for caring for almost 35,400 patients. We have three Surgeries in Kings Lynn (22000 patients) one in Downham Market (2600 patients), another at Dersingham (6000 patients) and one in Hunstanton (4800 patients) We are the only Practice in Norfolk to hold the Quality Practice Award accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners. Since 1995 we have held accreditation as Investors in People. We have a team of 18 doctors, about 25 nurses and about 50 support staff. Several of our nurses have prescribing rights and they provide acute and chronic care. Several of them are very specialized and they run the chronic care clinics. Other nurses provide a treatment room service and clinical nursing assistants offer phlebotomy and other tests. District nurses are based at all 3 Centres and others e.g. midwife and dietician visit regularly. We have a dispensary at our Dersingham surgery.