NHS 24
Provides health information and self care advice to the people of Scotland.
Services
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Advocacy – someone to speak on your behalf
If you need help expressing your views when attending health appointments, you can get an independent advocate. -
Apply for a medical certificate review
You have the right to ask for an 'interested person review' if you have questions or concerns about a family member's cause of death. -
Care equipment and adapting your home
Technology that helps you live safely and independently in your own home. -
Care homes
Get help finding a place in a care home. -
Care you can get at home
Get help at home from your local council or from private home care. -
Complain about an NHS service
Information on how to complain about an NHS service, such as a hospital, GP or dentist. -
Complain or give feedback about care
Find out how to make complaints and feedback about care services. -
Financial assessments for care
If you need care services that have a charge, the council will carry out a financial assessment to decide what you need to pay. -
Help if you're leaving hospital
You can get help if you're in hospital and need extra support when you go home, or if you need to move into a care home. -
Help with mental health
Support if you have a mental health problem such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety. -
How care is regulated
Find out how standards of care are inspected in Scotland. -
How to report a possible abuse of your human rights
If you feel your human rights have been abused, there are many ways you can report it. -
If someone dies outside Scotland
The steps you must take when someone dies outside Scotland or abroad – register a death, post-mortems, funerals and support. -
Organ and tissue donation
Find out how to register to be an organ donor, how to opt out, update your details and to check if you’re already on the register. -
Personal and Nursing Care
Personal and Nursing Care may be an option if you need support to live comfortably and safely at home. -
Register with a doctor
How to find and register with a local doctor (GP). -
Register with an NHS dentist
How to register with an NHS dentist and what to expect as an NHS dental patient. -
Staying safe in winter weather
Information on keeping safe during winter weather. Includes travelling, grit bins, loss of utilities, frozen or burst pipes and snow and flooding. -
What to do when someone dies
The steps you must take when someone dies – register a death, the procurator fiscal, funerals and bereavement support. -
Your rights as someone needing care
Find out about your rights as someone needing care.
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