Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is an infectious disease of the airways and lungs. RSV infection often causes symptoms similar to a cold, including cough, sore throat, sneezing and runny or blocked nose. It can also make you become wheezy or short of breath and lead to pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. There is no specific treatment, and most infections will get better by themselves. Every year thousands of older adults need hospital care for RSV, and some of them will die. RSV can be more severe in people with medical conditions such as heart or lung disease or a weakened immune system. RSV infection is common in young children but is most serious for small babies and for older people.

How does the vaccine work?

Almost all older adults will have had several RSV infections during their life. A single dose of vaccine will help to boost protection as you reach an age group at highest risk of serious RSV infection.

Family Hub offer families with children under 5 a range of services, information and support

What’s on Guide

Family Support Drop Ins

A drop-in session to support parents and carers of under 5’s in the Rushcliffe district. Topics include but are not limited to toilet training, emotional well-being, behaviour, speech and language and other general parenting concerns.

Antenatal Awareness Offer

Are you expecting a baby in the next 3 months, living in Rushcliffe and looking to:

• Build a closer bond with your baby
• Understand what your baby is communicating to you
• Safe space for expecting mothers, partners to ask questions
• Receive emotional support for parent/ carers

The NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS) is a national Advanced Service to refer patients requiring low acuity advice, treatment and urgent repeat prescriptions to community pharmacies.

The service aims to reduce pressure on the primary and urgent care system, particularly Accident and Emergency and GP out of hours. The service will support the integration of community pharmacy into the urgent care system.

We have teamed up with Evans Pharmacy in East Leake and Ruddington and we may refer you to them if we think this is more appropriate than a GP or Nurse appointment. Many Pharmacists are now trained to treat minor ailments and they can offer you advice and write a prescription if needed.

If you would like more information you can visit the NHS England website

Nottsbus On Demand is a new flexible way to travel by bus. Unlike a traditional bus service, Nottsbus On Demand doesn’t have a fixed route or follow a timetable. Instead, our buses can travel anywhere between bus stops and designated points within the operating zones, where there is not already a scheduled bus service running.

With Nottsbus On Demand you can choose when to travel by booking your journey through our easy-to-use Nottsbus On Demand app (available to download for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play stores), or over the phone by calling 0115 804 0404. (Please note this phone line is only available between 8:30am and 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8:30am to 4:30pm Friday, excluding bank holidays).

When you’re ready to travel simply book the bus to pick you up from a bus stop or designated point that is convenient for you. Our smart technology will match your journey with other customers travelling in the same direction so you can be picked up along the way.

You can book journeys ‘on demand’ as required, or in advance if you are travelling the next day. If you are making an on demand booking we estimate that it could take anywhere between five and 60 minutes for the bus to reach your bus stop or designated pick-up point, so please take this into consideration.

Inclisiran can be given in primary care settings as a twice-yearly injection to people with high cholesterol who have already had a previous cardiovascular event to reduce the chances of them having another. It can be used on its own or alongside statins or other cholesterol lowering drugs. 

Inclisiran works in a new way. It is the first of a new type of cholesterol-lowering treatment which uses RNA interference (RNAi) to boost the liver’s ability to remove harmful cholesterol from the blood.

We ran a Group Consultation to introduce this new injection and were able to provide it to patients at the same time. We have had very positive feedback from our patients and it was a huge success. 

Please see below a few pictures and some feedback from our patients 

‘It was very good that I was able to be offered the injection at the same time, saves me making another appointment to come back again’