Social Prescribing and Health and Wellbeing
What’s it all about?
The social prescribing and health and wellbeing service is an exciting new NHS service to help support and maintain our local population’s health.
Our Social Prescribers and Health and Wellbeing Coaches are able to spend more time with you, to listen, understand and co-create a personalised support plan to benefit your long-term wellbeing. Our concern is ‘what matters to you?’.
As well as helping you to access appropriate services, activities and organisations, we can encourage you to be proactive in staying healthy and make positive changes in your life. We will support you to explore any potential barriers and maximise your chances of success.
What can we help and support with?
- Accessing community support and interest groups
- Stress, debt, and financial support
- Benefits and housing support
- Loneliness and befriending
- Returning to work
- Budgeting
- Accessing support for carers
- Support staying safe at home
- Support navigating the social care system and bureaucracy.
- Overcoming isolation
- Smoking Cessation
- Support to arrange private care packages or respite
- Care and support planning to explore wider social care needs
- Better nutrition
- Wight-loss
- Becoming more active
- Managing stress and low mood
- Improving sleep
- Managing long-term and newly diagnosed health conditions with diet or lifestyle changes.
How You Can Access Our Services
If you would like support from our Social Prescribing and Health Coaching team
Telephone 01772 952 484 and leave a message on our answerphone with the following details:
- Your Full Name
- The GP Practice you are registered with
- Your contact telephone number
- A brief reason why you are contacting us
You can also email the details above to gppcn.socialprescribing@nhs.net
A member of our team will contact you to discuss if we can help.
Please note we cannot issue fit notes or provide medical advice.