DOCTORS are urging patients to stay healthy over the Easter holidays by stocking up on vital medicines.
The advice is being issued by NHS Bradford City, NHS Bradford Districts and NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
Doctors are also reminding patients of the benefits of using their local pharmacies and if people start to feel unwell over the Easter holidays to check their symptoms using the NHS Symptoms Checker page which can be found at nhs.uk/symptomcheckers/pag es/symptoms.aspx.
When medical help is needed but it is not an emergency, people can ring NHS 111 for advice and direction to the most appropriate service. NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and calls are free.
Dr Aamer Khan, urgent care lead for Bradford City CCG said: “Holidays, including Easter, are times when demand on emergency services increases dramatically so it is important that patients think: does this illness or injury really need emergency treatment? Sometimes self-care is the answer, especially for coughs and colds which cannot be treated with antibiotics anyway.”
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