Your guide to health services in Lincolnshire

Your guide to health services in Lincolnshire.

Your guide to health services while away from home

Your guide to health services while away from home.

Let’s get you home – hospital discharge

We are doing everything we can to reduce prolonged hospital stays and ‘get you home to what matters to you’.

COVID-19 vaccination in Lincolnshire

The roll out of the vaccination continues to be a collective effort across Lincolnshire, making sure our communities are protected.

Our GP Practices – Primary Care Networks

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are groups of GP practices working together with other local organisations, such as community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services.

Lincolnshire Care Record

The Lincolnshire Care Record is a secure computer system that provides health and care staff with a selected view of a patient’s personal information contained in different health and care systems.

My Planned Care

My Planned Care is a new portal which allows patients the chance to see how long they are likely to be waiting for their procedure at any NHS hospital.

NHS Continuing Healthcare

NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) is a package of care for adults aged 18 or over.

Patient choice

What choices are available to you in your NHS care? NHS Lincolnshire ICB is committed to giving patient greater choice and control over how they receive their healthcare in line with the Government’s commitment.

Lincolnshire Each – patient referrals

The Lincolnshire ‘EACH’ is a service provided within Lincolnshire to assist with patient referrals to Community Services and Hospitals (including Private) for NHS treatment.

Lincolnshire Wheelchair Service Eligibility Criteria

The Wheelchair and Posture Service in Lincolnshire provides wheelchairs for adults and children with a long-term physical disability or a long-term illness that affects their mobility.

Community health services

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) are the primary community healthcare provider in Lincolnshire.

Medicines optimisation and prescribing

Medicines optimisation aims to put the patients at the centre of their care and encourages shared decision-making about the medicines they use, both prescribed and non-prescribed.

Care Closer to Home (CCH)

Care Closer to Home enables those with complex care needs, or who have multiple medical conditions or are frail, to live healthy and independent lives at home or in a place they call home and out of hospital wherever possible.

Diabetes

Diabetes is a serious condition where your blood glucose level is too high. There are two main types, Type 1 and Type 2. They’re different conditions, but they’re both serious. Find information and support in Lincolnshire.

Better health Lincolnshire

Healthy changes start with little changes. Whether you want to lose weight, drink less, get active or quit smoking.

Connect to support Lincolnshire

Connect to Support Lincolnshire provides people with a range of options on how care, support, health and community services can be accessed.

Maternity services

Better Births Lincolnshire brings together all the services across the county responsible for supporting and caring for both you and your baby throughout your pregnancy journey.

Infant crying support – ICON Cope

Information about infant crying, including how to cope, support for parents/carers, how to reduce stress and prevent abusive head trauma in babies.

Children and young people

We have developed a dedicated page of information and advice relating to the health and wellbeing of children and young people.

Mental health and disabilities

Mental health and disabilities support services in Lincolnshire.

Cancer services

We want to make sure that people living with Cancer in Lincolnshire are supported at the right time, in the right place and in the right way for them.

End of life care

Information resource for health and social care professionals and the public supporting people towards the end of life.