Health and relationships
Find advice and information on:
The NHS
At 16 years old you can make your own choices about your medical care.
Find out how to register with a doctor or where your local hospital, NHS Walk-In Centre, doctor‘s surgery, dentist, optician and pharmacist is by visiting the NHS Direct website or by telephoning 0845 46 47.
NHS services
To find out where your nearest doctor, dentist, optician or hospital is please call NHS Direct or use the NHS service search.
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Drugs
- thesite.org
- Talk to Frank (National helpline: confidential drugs information and advice, 24 hours a day. Tel: 0800 77 66 00, Tel: 0800 917 8765, Email: frank@talktofrank.com)
- PRISM
- Hampshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Alcohol
National helplines:
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Drinkline - free helpline and information and advice about alcohol
Tel: 0800 917 8282 -
Alateen - help for someone affected by someone else’s drinking
Tel: 020 7403 0888 -
Alcoholics Anonymous – 24 hour confidential help and advice for anyone with a drink problem
Tel: 0845 769 7555
Smoking
- Smokefree
- Quit because - site for young people
- Quit
- Ash
- British Heart Foundation
- Smokefree Hampshire and Isle of Wight
National helplines:
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NHS Smoking Helpline – open 7am to 11pm for help and advice
Tel: 0800 169 0 169-
Other languages (open 1pm-9pm)
Urdu: 0800 169 0 881
Punjabi: 0800 169 0 882
Hindi: 0800 169 0 883
Gujarati: 0800 169 0 884
Bengali: 0800 169 0 885
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Other languages (open 1pm-9pm)
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NHS Specialist Pregnancy Smoking Advice – open 12noon to 9pm.
Tel: 0800 169 9 169 -
QUIT – free advice and support to help smokers stop, including email counselling, from 9am to 9pm
Tel: 0800 00 22 00
Email: stopsmoking@quit.org.uk
Relationships
Hampshire links
- Bereavement
- Bullying
- Childcare and Family Information Team (Cfit)
- Child protection
- Teenage pregnancy
- Young carers
- Worried about yourself or someone else? Get help!
Other links
Be healthy
Useful links
- Mental health services
- DotComUnity
- Hampshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team
- Support with substance misuse
- NHS
- Radio 1 - the surgery
- Sex and young people
- Teens first for health
