A Sandbach medical practice is celebrating – after it achieved gold standard for its work helping veterans and their families.

Ashfields Primary Care Centre in Middlewich Road is now a gold standard medical practice as part of the Armed Forces Covenant.

The award is the highest standard the practice can achieve for this type of work for which it has a Military Veterans Champion, David Crosthwaite.

Veteran Friendly Accredited GP practice and to support our veteran community.

Ashfields is a veteran friendly accredited GP practice. (Photo: Nub News)

As a Veteran Friendly Accredited practice, the team:

• understands the unique health needs that veterans may have
• strives to provide veterans with the very best care and support
• knows about the specialist veteran healthcare services that exist
• undertakes regular training and development to ensure we're able to deliver the very best care to veterans in our community and meet the health commitments of the Armed Forces Covenant

The practice has also signed up to Pride in veterans Standards/Fighting With Pride to ensure they are able to assist wherever possible and will provide inclusive and welcoming support to LGBT+ Veterans, serving personnel and their families.

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