Castle Health Centre

14/11/2025

04/11/2025

Your pharmacist can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions - without you seeing a GP.

Think pharmacy first and get seen by your local community pharmacy team.

28/10/2025

🍑Eating a nutritional diet 🍗

👉Helps your baby to develop and grow
👉Helps boost your energy and wellbeing
👉Good balance of nutrition
👉Folic acid supplementation is advised during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (and pre-conception)
👉Eating a well-balanced diet and keeping yourself well hydrated may reduce your symptoms of constipation, headaches and nausea.
👉It is a myth to eat for 2! In the final 3 months of pregnancy you’ll need an extra 200 calories per day.
👉Reduce your salt/ sodium content – too much salt can raise your blood pressure causing complications in pregnancy
👉Eat little and often this might reduce dizziness, nausea and sickness

🍓Fruit and vegetables – provide vitamins and minerals as well as fibre (reducing your risk of constipation)
🍞Carbohydrates – source of energy, vitamins and fibre
🥚Protein – Building blocks for your baby to grow
🧀Dairy – Calcium and essential nutrients

🚫Food to avoid:

Some fish:
🚫Shark, swordfish, marlin, raw shellfish, smoked salmon, raw sushi
🚫Avoid more than 2 portions of oily fish as it may contain pollutants (toxins)
🚫No more than 2 tuna steaks or x4 medium cans of tune a week (high levels of mercury)

Egg preparation:
🚫Avoid raw or uncooked eggs (risk of salmonella) – unless the egg is lion stamped as the chickens have been vaccinated against salmonella

Certain dairy products: as they may contain listeria bacteria
🚫Unpasteurised milk, cream and cheese
🚫Mould ripened cheese and soft blue cheese (unless cooked until steaming hot)

Certain Meat: risk of toxoplasmosis
🚫Cold cured meats (unless cooked thoroughly)
🚫Raw or undercooked meats
🚫Liver products/ pate (harmful levels to baby of Vitamin A)
🚫Game meats (goose, partridge or pheasant)

www.nhs.uk/start-for-life/pregnancy/healthy-eating-in-pregnancy/

You may be entitled to help with vitamins, fruits and vegetables if you qualify for healthy start vouchers:
www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply/

28/10/2025

28/10/2025

Movember 2026 is a campaign focused on raising awareness and funds for men's health issues throughout the month of November. Participants often grow moustaches to raise money, but they can also participate in events like runs, hikes, and other challenges to support the cause. The main goal is to address men's mental health and su***de prevention, as well as prostate and testicular cancer.

27/10/2025

We are currently experiencing systems issues.

We endeavour to be back up and running ASAP.

If your call is urgent of life threatening please call 111

Thank you
Castle Health Centre

24/10/2025

North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre.
Free Advice First Aid course

24/10/2025

North Yorkshire Citizens Advice and Law Centre
Look out for these energy awareness events delivered by Warm and Well across the area.

Also keep see if you can get to an Advice First Aid course – these are hugely popular.

Also, our Scarborough Energy Advice Project, which includes Scarborough Whitby and Filey. We provide Energy Advice alongside Income Maximisation. The project also has a dedicated debt advisor who can support clients from our Scarborough Office but also via telephone appointments. We are currently distributing fuel vouchers for those on prepayment meters (Alongside Household Support Fund for those on Credit Meters/Solid Fuels), small measures such as air fryers and slow cookers. We also have access to White Goods if a client's current appliance is broken (subject to eligibility).

24/10/2025

Stroke Warriors Scarborough
See below for details of next meetings on
14th November 2025
12th December 2025
9th January 2026.

24/10/2025

For confidential advice across North Yorkshire and York.

24/10/2025

Scarborough Women's Centre is a fantastic space for all professionals to come together and provide local women with support and connectivity