We encourage all our patients to understand more about their symptoms and their condition. We invite you to take a look at our recommended selection of self help resources.
Find out how to manage your condition yourself
- A-Z of Conditions
- A to Z of Health:
- A to Z of Health:
View a list of organisations that can help you choose your care
Online Forms
You can complete the following request forms online.
- Alcohol Consumption Review
- Contraception Re-Order Form
- New Patient Registration
- Self-Certification Sick Note
Children
- What to do if your child is unwell
- What can I do if I suspect a child is being abused?
- Kids Hub: Working with disabled children, young people and their families
- Kids hub directory
- If you’re unhappy, tell someone!
- The Hertsmere Children’s Centre
- The Alban Way Children’s Centres
- Hertfordshire Children’s Centres
- NHS Vaccination Schedule
- NHS Vaccination Wall Planner
- Free online mental health support for 10 to 25-year-olds
- Complete Immunisation Schedule
Contact your Health Visitor
Did you know you can call the Duty Health Visitor telephone number for any non-urgent query regarding your child’s health or development?
Tel: 01727 732008
Monday– Friday between 9am and 4.30 pm
Teenagers
- Teen girls’ health
- Teen boys’ health
- Teenage health
- Channel Mogo
- Childline
- Bullying UK
- Kidscape
- NSPCC
- Sparksite
- British Pregnancy Advisory Service
- Brook
- Marie Stopes
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Free online mental health support for 10 to 25-year-olds
- My CAMHS Choices
- Choosing What’s Best for You
- Young Minds
- Meningitis & Septicaemia
Young People – Useful links
- British Pregnancy Advisory Service
- Brook
- Bullying UK
- Channel Mogo
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Childline
- Choosing What’s Best for You
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Grove House – Day Services
- Find services- Sexual health
- FPA talking about sexFree online mental health support for 10 to 25-year-olds
- If you’re unhappy, tell someone!
- Kidscape
- Marie Stopes
- My CAMHS Choices
- NSPCC
- Sex and young people
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- Sparksite
- Teen boys’ health
- Teen girls’ health
- Teenage health
- Visiting an STI clinic
- What can I do if I suspect a child is being abused?
- What is contraception?
- Working with disabled children, young people and their families
- Young Minds
- Adult social care in Herts
- Domestic violence
Find out more about:
Elderly Care
- Elderly care
- Driving and dementia
- Safeguarding adults
- Free NHS Health Check – helping you prevent heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and dementia
- Keep warm keep well – information for over 60, low income family, people living with a disability
- Top tips to keep warm and well
- COVID-19 Assistance
Self Help Advice
- A resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death
- Back pain
- Be Clear on Cancer
- Bites and stings
- Blood in Urine video
- Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
- Bowel cancer Screening Kit
- Breast cancer screening for over 70s
- Burns
- Cancer Alliance
- Cancer Care Map
- Cancer Research UK – About Cancer
- Chicken pox
- Colds
- Community Navigators – Carers in Herts
- Community Navigators – Herts Valleys CCG
- Depression & Anxiety
- Diabetic care
- Diabetes – Birth control and pregnancy advice
- Diarrhoea
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Grove House – Day Services
- Hay fever
- Health in Herts
- Health and Wellbeing Advice Clinic – Get Going
- Healthwatch Hertfordshire
- Helping People with Chronic Pain
- Hertfordshire Action on Disability
- Hertfordshire Hearing Advisory Service
- Hertfordshire Society for the Blind
- How to take Ibuprofen for pain and inflammation
- Interactive tools, apps and podcasts to help you manage your health and care
- Macmillan Cancer Support
- Minor cuts and grazes
- Moisturisers for dry skin conditions
- Muscle sprains and strains
- Pain
- Peace Hospice – A guide to services
- Peace Hospice – A guide to day services at Starlight Centre
- Peace Hospice – A guide to hospice at home
- Planning to become pregnant
- POhWER advocacy, making your voice heard
- Relate
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Special Educational need and Disability (SEND)
- Sexual health
- St Albans and District Cardiac
- St Albans Exercise Referral Scheme
- Stay well this winter – flu advice
- Stopping smoking
- Support after suicide
- Support groups
- Travel advice
- Useful links
- Vasectomy Self-referral
- Ways to prevent falls
- Weight Management information
- Weight management – do I qualify for a FREE referral?
- Weight management – need to lose weight before surgery?
- Wellbeing & mental health support
- Your Drinking And You
What you can expect from healthcare providers…
- What can you expect from a Good GP Practice
- What can you expect from a good care home
- What can you expect from a good home-care agency
- What can you expect from a good hospital
- What can you expect from your dental practice
- What does Equality and diversity in the NHS mean to you?
- What to expect from your pharmacist
- NHS services explained
- Repeat prescriptions – A short guide to safe and effective use of your medication
