Social Prescribing offers the kind of help that focuses on you and what is important to YOU.

Your wellbeing matters to us.

We have a Social Prescribing Link worker, George Ioannou. This is a specialist who can support you with issues that are affecting your health and wellbeing.

They can offer free confidential advice and help connect you to support and services for any of the following:

• Meeting new people, Social Activities/Hobbies/Volunteering
• Emotional wellbeing – Stress management/Anxiety/Loneliness and isolation
• Lifestyle changes – Weight management/Smoking/Alcohol
• Education – Skills development/Training
• Managing your money e.g. Debt/Housing/Benefits.

To arrange an appointment please speak to one of our reception team.

Resources:

Social Prescribing Information Leaflet

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Care Coordinators

Our friendly care coordinators are based at the surgery to provide patients with support to manage their overall health and well-being.

Many of life’s problems can make you feel unwell including Loneliness, Unhealthy lifestyles, Housing Issues, weight problems, Addiction, Anxiety, Money Worries, Work and Employment, and Mental Health

Our Care Coordinators work with the Social Prescriber to help look after more than just your health.  They work alongside the GP’s and nurses to help get the extra support you need.

The Social Prescriber / Care Coordinator team can link you up with services, for example:

• Housing Benefits and financial support and advice
• Employment, training and volunteering
• Education and learning
• Healthy lifestyle advice and physical activity
• Arts, music, outdoors and creative activities
• Befriending, counselling and emotional support groups
• The Social Prescribing / Care Coordinators team can support you in the following ways:-

• They can speak with you on the phone or meet face to face
• Discuss any issues you are facing that may be affecting you
• Explore what matters to you
• Find local services and activities
• Give you support to access services you may need

Our Care Coordinators are

Lucy Cade

Maggie Centkowska

Norgaile Virsilaite

We can help you quit smoking. If you need help, call our reception team on 01223 365 555 and they’ll make an appointment for you.

These services staffed by expert advisers provide a range of proven methods to help you quit.

They’ll give you accurate information and advice, as well as professional support, during the first few months you stop smoking. 

They also make it easy and affordable for you to get stop smoking treatments, such as:

• Varenicline (Champix)
• Bupropion (Zyban)
• Nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches and gum

For extra support, CAMQUIT is a stop smoking service in Cambridgeshire which offers group sessions. Read more on their website.

Don’t Fear The Smear

What is cervical screening?

Cervical screening is not a test for cancer. It is a method of preventing cancer by detecting and treating early abnormalities which, if left untreated, could lead to cancer in a woman’s cervix (the neck of the womb)

A sample of cells is taken from the cervix for analysis. A doctor or nurse inserts an instrument (a speculum) to open the woman’s vagina and uses a spatula to sweep around the cervix. Most women consider the procedure to be only mildly uncomfortable.

Early detection and treatment can prevent 75 per cent of cancers from developing but like other screening tests, it is not perfect. It may not always detect early cell changes that could lead to cancer.

Who is eligible for cervical screening?

Women aged between 24 and 64 should have a cervical screening every 3 to 5 years to help prevent cervical cancer. The screening is quick and painless and can be done here in the practice.

If you are aged over 24 and have never had a smear test, or if it has been more than 3 to 5 years since your last screening, you should arrange an appointment with our Practice Nurse. You should not have the test while you are having a period or in the 4 days before or after your period as this can affect the sample.

Please visit NHS Cervical Screening for more information.

Please contact the surgery on 01223 365555 to book a 20 minutes appointment.