NHC Annual Delivery Update
NHC has been busy in 2023-24 delivering Services to Newham Patients and GP Practices as detailed in the delivery update.












NHC has been busy in 2023-24 delivering Services to Newham Patients and GP Practices as detailed in the delivery update.
This week is #HealthCoaching Awareness Week so we’re taking a close look at the role of a Health and Wellbeing Coach. Health and Wellbeing coaches are one of the three personalised roles in GP practices along with social prescribers and care coordinators. But what do they do and how can they help patients? Newham based…
Next in our #IWD2023 series, we spoke to Arpana Patel, a Newham GP and NHC Vice Chair to find out why she became a doctor, what she’d say to her younger self and what equity means to her. Why did you decide to become doctor? I love my job! And I can’t imagine doing anything…
Personalisation is a key driver to how we work with patients and three roles in particular are designed to work holistically to address what matters most to patients. NHC has a team of 18 social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and care coordinators who together make up the organisation’s personalisation team, working in…
Over 500,000 Muslims call north east London home and the NHS is here to help you enjoy a healthy and safe Ramadan. Here, Dr. Muhammad Naqvi, a GP in Newham, gives tips and advice. For more, please visit the NHS North East London website.
This week is Cervical Screening Awareness Week (19th-24th June) so we wanted to showcase the work that has, and will be done, across Newham to help more people to access cervical cancer screenings or ‘smear’ tests. Why are Cervical Screenings important? Cervical cancer is the most common form of cancer in women under 35 with…
In the lead up to the Newham Primary Care Recruitment Day we’re speaking to different staff members to find out more about their roles, how they started working in primary care and what they enjoy most about their roles. Today, we speak to Maham, receptionist and call handler, who is also completing her biomedical sciences…