North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Units E and F, Chelford Court, 37 Robjohns Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3AF
http://www.nepft.nhs.uk/

Associate Director for Pharmacy: Judith Woolley
01245 546480
judith.woolley@nepft.nhs.uk

Accessibility

This is page describes the accessibility and usability standards we aim to achieve to help you get the best out of using this site.

Accessibility toolbar

We have placed an accessibility toolbar at the top of every page of theis site. This allows users quick access to some of the accessibility tyools that they can use on this site. You can view a text only version of the site, link to free screenreader software, increase / decrease the font size and change the default language settings.

Text only and font resizing

Use the text only link in the accessibility toolbar at the top of every page to view a text only version of the site. You can also change the font size using the Standard Text | Large Text | Extra Large Text links.

Assistance with files

This site enable users to upload and download files in various formats. To assist you with accessing these files we have listed below of commonly used file types and links to the appropriate readers.

Links to accessibility references, software and services

To help you get the best out of using this site we have listed below links to accessibility references, software and services.

Accessibility references

Accessibility software

  • JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available

  • Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available

  • Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays

  • Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth, and

  • Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility services

  • Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.

  • HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.

  • Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.

  • Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.

Standards compliance

We aim to ensure that this site complies with relevant accessibility criteria, such as the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We will provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content. We will also ensure that text and graphics are understandable when viewed without color. We will use markup and style sheets, ensuring that tags are used for main titles, tags for subtitles (and so on), with presentation being handled through the appropriate usage of stylesheets.

Visual design

We use style sheet technolog for visual layout. This is an efficient way of working that helps us to organise and update websites in the easiest way.

We ensure that the use of tables for layout is kept to a bare minimum, as evidence strongly suggests that tables are less user friendly.

We use only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers, to help make sure the text is as easy as possible to read.

We aim to ensure that if a user has a browser that does not support stylesheets, then the content of each page should still be readable.

Image use

We aim to include textual alternatives for image content. These are known as alt tags. Using these ensures that people using screen readers who are often visually impaired are also made aware of the pages image content.

The North Essex Partnership (NEPFT) Pharmacy supports service users, carers and staff by providing accurate and independent information and education about medicines. We offer a high quality and friendly service. The Trust has an in-house pharmacy in Chelmsford, and a team of pharmacists and technicians who are based on the wards at Chelmsford (the Linden Centre) , Colchester (the Lakes), Clacton, Harlow (the Derwent Centre) and Epping.

You will find a lot of information about medicines here and it is easy to search what you are looking for: however please let us know if it can be improved.

Pharmacy contact details:

NEPFT Pharmacy, Units E&F, 37 Robjohns Road, Widford, CHELMSFORD, Essex, CM1 3AG
Tel. 01245 315 500
Fax dispensary 01245 256 826 or 853 Fax office 01245 256 948
E-mail nepft.pharmacy@nhs.net

Opening hours Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm. The pharmacy is not on a hospital site so there is no outpatient service unless prearranged with the clinic.

Assocate Director for Pharmacy Judith Woolley 01245 315 507 judith.woolley@nepft.nhs.uk
Pharmacy Manager Gail Hewson 01245 315 504 gail.hewson@nepft.nhs.uk
Lead Pharmacist for North East Essex Helen Thurlow 07792 209 328
Lead Pharmacist for Mid Essex Katherine Delargy 07879 115 278
Lead Pharmacist for West Essex Tolu Aigbekaen Office no. 01279 444 455 Ext 2811

For patients, carers or the public: If you have any questions please contact the pharmacy on 01245 315 500, or your local pharmacy staff. You can also contact PALS (patient advice and liaison service) on 01245 546 433 or by e-mails on pals@nepft.nhs.uk and they will find an answer for you. For more information visit the Trust website on http://www.nepft.nhs.uk

For staff: Please look at the Medicines management page on i-connect (go to Policies/Medicines management/) for full contact details, procedures, guidances, patient leaflets in other languages, useful websites. Please order in good time for your transport, or contact local pharmacy staff if need be. Staff across the Trust have access to on-call pharmacy services outside working hours.