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NHS Forums was created as an independent unofficial forum for NHS Staff and NHS Patients alike. You can sign up for free, use a pseudonym if you wish. If you use your work email address (that ends in .nhs.uk) then you will automatically added to the staff only forums once they're running properly. Discuss NHS Job Vacancies, Hospital Departments and much much more. Eventually the NHS Forums will be split into Staff and Patients who don't need to mix. Although you all can in the community chat forums.

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Hospital Radio Stations that still Broadcast
If you know of a hospital that still has a hospital radio station (do they even exist now during the digital age and tablets and laptops?) then please big it up in this forum. If we find a couple I will make a forum for them so they can ask their listeners to chat on there (assuming they're...
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Websites and Apps that can use your NHS Login
Websites and apps that can use your NHS login NHS services National Booking Service - provides systems that enable people to book appointments across England. NHS App - a secure way to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet. NHS England Digital Weight Management Programme -...
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Top 5 NHS Patient Apps for 2025
Top 5 NHS Patient Apps for 2025 NHS App: the official National Health Service Application. Search your medical history, link to your local GP and make appointments. Link your pharmacist and order prescriptions for medication. 2nd one 3rd one 4th one 5th one (Working on this)
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Thought this would be interesting to see where members of NHS Forums are from and which are the popular hospitals on the forum.
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This forum is automatically fed with news from various news sources. The articles linked to and quoted here are not necessarily our views, they're just what is being discussed in the news, and therefore we can discuss this then too.
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NHS Staff Forums | Medical Professionals NHS forums for NHS staff and medical professionals. NHS Medical Professionals Forum. Find fellow NHS Staff on the forum, daily. No matter which hospital or health trust or where you are in the country, these forums are for you.

General NHS Staff Forum (Public)

This forum is public and can be seen by any general public - but we DO have a private NHS Staff Forum too, you just need to use your work email address to be automatically added to the private forums.

Post all Trust and Regional threads in this forum. Once we have multiple threads about the same hospital, trust or region we will create more forums and move the threads over. Please use a very descriptive title which includes the hospital and / or trust name, and even Ward or Department if its about a specific ward or department.
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Welcome to the NHS Forum for NHS Employees

NHS Staff Forum (Private)

You can post anything and everything in this forum. But you need to use your work email address for your forum account so that the forum automatically picks that up and grants you access.
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NHS Jobs and Bank Staff Vacancies Welcome to NHS Jobs and Careers Forums. Bank Staff and NHS Employed Work Available Across the UK

NHS Jobs | NHS Careers and Recruitment

NHS Jobs | NHS Careers and Recruitment. NHS Agencies Across the UK. Find Agency Work for Nurses and Support Technicians and Staff no matter where you are in the country.
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NHS Jobs Forum | Jobs Board for NHS Staff

Looking for an NHS Job? - post here

Post here if you're looking for NHS Jobs anywhere in the Country.
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Welcome to the NHS Jobs Forum

Have available NHS jobs?

If you have a position available within the NHS somewhere then please post the vacancy here, you can mark it as "position filled" to stop responses being allowed.
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NHS Groups | NHS Staff Groups Join the following groups. PM @Paul to join any. You must be using your work email as your forum account email first.

NHS Staff LGBTQ+ Group

NHSForums.com Hosts the NHS Staff LGBTQ+ Group. If you're an NHS Employee and You are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or other - Then this is the group to you.
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Porters Only

A place for Porters Only. You will need to get in touch to access the 10's of thousands of threads in this forum topic.
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Cleaning Staff

A place for Cleaning Staff Only. You will need to get in touch to access the 10's of thousands of threads in this forum topic.
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Estates Only

A place for Estates Only. You will need to get in touch to access the 10's of thousands of threads in this forum topic.
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Bank Staff Only

A place for Bank Staff Only (Out of the view of NHS Staff too) You will need to get in touch to access the 10's of thousands of threads in this forum topic.
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NHS Doctors Only

A place for Doctors Only. You will need to get in touch to access the 10's of thousands of threads in this forum topic.
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NHS Patient Forums Welcome to the NHS Patient Forum for the National Health Service that provides free healthcare (at point of use) for most of the UK. Our Patient Forum will expand over time into something that'll include all types of common healthcare issues and discussion.

Patient Forum

Welcome to Patient Forum (Public) and Discussion. Here you can discuss with fellow patients all of your concerns and questions related to your own health research etc. These are patient helping patient forums, you wont get NHS Staff using this forum area to provide any type of healthcare or advice.
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Top 5 NHS Patient Apps for 2025
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General Medical and Health Questions

Please post general health related questions here. This forum is NOT lead by Doctors, Consultants or Nurses. But you can come share your experience with fellow forum members who may have been through the exact situation you are in. You're not alone here.
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Post any general health questions in this forum

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Advice for British Expats hoping to come back to the UK for free NHS Treatment of health conditions

Patient Access

Find all Patient Access features, guides, how-to use Patient Access. Order prescriptions, request access to all of your data and medical records, and more. There are 4 or 5 other apps that do exactly the same too. But this is the most well known.

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Infections forum; Find Advice on Infections in this questions forum

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Ear, nose and throat. And also mouth.

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Symptoms; have a symptom of something?

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Health Research Forums by NHSForums.com

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Health Advice Forums by NHSForums.com Launched Sept 2024

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