Podiatry
Suffolk Podiatry seeks to enable patients to maintain their own foot health with confidence and to protect those patients most at risk of life-changing foot health complications.
Podiatry
Suffolk Podiatry is a high risk specialist service. Podiatry care is determined by how severe a patient’s underlying medical conditions are and whether they are likely to develop a serious and life-changing foot health complication or require hospital care. Not all patients can be given an appointment however, we seek to provide all patients with targeted advice.
The service is involved in the treatment of the following:
- Foot complications due to conditions such as diabetes or poor circulation
- Ingrowing toe nails requiring surgery
- Musculo-skeletal foot and lower leg pain
Suffolk Podiatry is unable to provide an appointment for:
- Footcare/nail cutting or verrucae treatment. To find a private HCPC registered podiatrist, visit the Royal College of Podiatry website: rcpod.org.uk/find-a-podiatrist
- Medical condition is not connected to the risk of serious foot health complications
- Child is under the age of 5
Contact Details
For enquiries please call: 01473 921810
Via email to: sgpfed.suffolk-podiatry@nhs.net
Locations
Suffolk Podiatry covers the whole of the county (with the exception of Waveney), and also the Thetford area of South Norfolk. Patients must be registered with a GP practice in Suffolk or Thetford.
Diabetes Foot Health Advice
Do you know your diabetes risk of foot health complications? More information is available via these links below:
- Footcare for people with Diabetes – YouTube Fantastic video that patients with diabetes should watch
- Diabetes and the feet General overview of how to look after your feet if you have diabetes
- Integrated Diabetes Foot Pathway Nationally recognised guidance
- What to expect from your diabetes foot check – YouTube Video A video on what happens during a diabetic foot screening
Podiatry Advice YouTube videos
Podiatry Advice Leaflets
Below contains links to our advice leaflets. If you cannot find what you are looking for, you may be able to find more information on NHS Choices Click here for the NHS Choices website.
- Footwear Advice The right footwear for you is essential to reduce pain and symptoms in your feet
- Basic Footcare Advice
- Corns & Callus
- Verrucae
- Fungal Skin Infection
- Thickened and Fungal Toenails
- Lifting or Loose Toenails
- Buying insoles to help your foot pain
- Painful Toe Joints
- Forefoot Pain: “Metatarsalgia” Advice about pain in the toes and front of the foot
- Heel Pain Stretching Advice For patients with heel pain, including conditions such as plantar fasciitis
- Achilles Tendinopathy Information about pain, swelling, stiffness and weakness of the Achilles tendon
- Calf Muscle Stretches Helpful for conditions such as heel pain
- Steroid Injections & Surgery
Children’s Podiatry Advice Leaflets
- Children’s Footwear Advice
- Children and Flat Feet
- Hypermobility in Children for children who joints move beyond the normal range of motion
- Intoeing Gait for children who walk with their toes pointing inwards
- Osgood Schlatter’s for children with knee pain associated with rapid growth
- Calcaneal Apophysitis (Sever’s) for children with heel pain associated with rapid growth
- Curly Toes in children for children with a toe (or multiple toes) that bend
How to apply for treatment
- Visit our referral website at podiatryreferrals.co.uk
- Telephone referral 0333 043 3966, option 1
- We accept online and telephone referrals directly from the patient or on behalf of someone else such as a parent/guardian/family member/carer
For more information on data protection in our organisation please click on the following link: suffolkfed.org.uk/suffolk-gp-federation-and-data-protection
Careers in Podiatry
Suffolk Podiatry and the University of East London work together to provide apprenticeships in podiatry locally. If you wish to pursue a career in podiatry, please contact
https://www.uel.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/allied-health-apprenticeships
+44 (0) 20 8223 3333 study@uel.ac.uk
There are also helpful links at:
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/allied-health-professionals/roles-allied-health-professions/podiatrist
https://rcpod.org.uk/become-a-podiatrist/career-opportunities-and-scope
Suffolk GP Federation manages various community services in alliance with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Suffolk County Council and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.