Lingfield Podiatry

06/03/2025

The sun has finally started to shine and flowers are blooming. Have you booked a summer holiday yet? Ensure your feet are beach ready and book an appointment.

10/11/2024

05/10/2023

My name in lights 😂

28/09/2023

It isn’t National Feet Week but a useful photo to share anyway.

29/07/2023

Getting ready for the school shoe shopping trip? We know it isn’t always possible to have your child’s feet professionally measured and fitted, visit our blog to read our top tips to get the best fit.

https://rcpod.org.uk/blog/back-to-school

26/04/2023

IT’S NATIONAL FOOT HEALTH WEEK! AND... in addition to checking your feet for signs of Melanoma - we are supporting the College of Podiatry in Introducing this year’s theme: “The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering”. Seriously check it out - some amazing information EVERYONE should know! https://rcpod.org.uk/fhw

CHECKING YOUR FEET FOR SIGNS OF MELANOMA!
Unlike other melanoma, Acral Lentiginous Melanoma (ALM) is usually located on the palms of hands and soles of feet. ALM is the only type of melanoma which arises equally across all skin types and is frequently observed in darker skin types. ALM can advance faster than other melanoma, becoming quickly invasive.

As people with dark skin tones are less prone to other forms of melanoma, ALM is the most common melanoma in people with these skin types.

ALM sometimes develops from an existing mole, but It can also occur seemingly out of nowhere on healthy skin.

ALM often appear as a black discolouration, but can be very subtle such as an ill defined patch of light brown-grey, discoloured skin that can look like a stain or a bruise (not obviously cause by trauma), that won’t heal.

In addition to the ‘ABCDE’ of melanoma, look out for a slowly enlarging flat patch of discoloured skin with a smooth surface at first, later becoming thicker with an irregular surface that may be dry or warty.

THE ‘ABCDE’ TOOL: Asymmetric / Border irregularity / Colour variation / Diameter > 6mm / Evolution

DISCOLOURATION: Ill-defined patch, stain or bruise with variable pigmentation (brown, blue-grey, black and red)

EVOLUTION: Smooth at first, becoming thicker. May be dry, warty, ulcerated or bleeding.

If you detect anything of this nature - seek immediate advice from your GP or a dermatologist.

EARLY DETECTION SAVES LIVES!

Foot Health Week

13/05/2022

27/02/2022

URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP

This is an appeal to help the Ukrainian people who are bravely sacrificing their lives and limbs for all our good.

We are looking to source medical supplies to be delivered to Ukrainian border e.g., anything that’s expired or about to expire and will be thrown out anyway.

I’m asking for your help to join in this effort by letting me have any of the following. I will arrange to post it on to the distribution point.

Here is a list of items desperately needed:

Disinfectant,
All things for dressings, non adhesive, gauze, bandages, crepe
Steristrips
Triangle bandages
Gloves
Sterile gloves
Safety pins
Splints
Neck braces
Resucitation masks
Thermal foil blankets
POP
Single use scalples
Saline
Scissors
Gauze
Dressing tape
Forceps
Single use surgical kits
Laryngological tongue depressors
Topical antibacterial creams (chloramphenicol etc).
Sutures
Venflons

If you have small items you would like to post please post to the following address:

British-Ukrainian aid, c/o AUGB London branch, 154 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UH

16/02/2022

Use of masks in healthcare.

In England, the requirement for mask wearing in most public areas ends today.

However, the UK Health Security Agency has not changed its advice, and therefore it continues to be a requirement within healthcare settings for both staff and patients to continue to wear face coverings.

27/01/2022

As guidance on mask usage by the public changes in England, members are advised that the UK Health Security Agency continues to advise that masks are required in healthcare settings by both patient and practitioner. Read the full details at
https://rcpod.org.uk/news/use-of-masks-in-healthcare-settings