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Health & Wellbeingsurgeries and main post offices. If you have a lot of medication, it may becheaper for you to buy a pre-payment certificate to cover any prescriptioncharges in a set period. An application form for a pre-payment certificate canbe picked up in your local community pharmacy.From April 2006, NHS Dental treatment will use one of 3 standard chargesdependent on the treatment required and regardless of the number of visits.Repairs to dentures will remain free of charge. If you lose or damage yourdentures beyond repair, it will cost to replace them. For more information, or tobe included on a NHS dentist waiting list contact the Wrexham Local HealthBoard. You can obtain a list of NHS dentists, emergency dental clinics for unregisteredpatients, doctors, pharmacies, chiropodists and opticians in yourlocal areas.NHS hospitals should give priority to war disablement pensioners for anytreatment of problems resulting from the wars. Tell your GP and hospital if youare a war pensioner to make sure you get priority treatment. Other benefitsmay be available, contact the Veterans Agency for more information.NHS Direct Wales is a telephone service, provided by nurses who giveconfidential health care advice and information or information about localHealth Services. They also have a list of practices that offer home visits to thehousebound. For information about Wrexham Maelor seehttp://www.wrexham.gov.uk/hospitalIf you are not happy with the NHS service you receive you should contact theClwyd Community Health Council. They organise public and patientinvolvement projects and their web site contains topical information includingMRSA advice.Every adult with mental capacity has the right to agree to or refuse medicaltreatment. To make your advance wishes clear you can use a living will.You don’t need to involve a solicitor to make a written living will and there isno set format, but some organisations have produced templates. You can alsoget help from solicitors specialising in mental health or community care theMind Legal Advice line, your care co-ordinator, doctor, advocacy service ororganisations like Citizens Advice Bureau.Nightingale House Hospice provides palliative care which concentrates oncaring, not curing. It provides medical care, pain management, and emotionaland spiritual support for people with life limiting illness caring for patients,friends and family.http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/50+34