Signposting and Partner Organisations
The HealthWatch Suffolk website has information and patient reviews on many NHS services including community pharmacy services across Suffolk and is a useful signposting tool.
Patients leave reviews on your local community pharmacy services HERE.
You can contact the Healthwatch Suffolk team on:
- Tel – 01449 703949
- Email – info@healthwatchsuffolk.co.uk
- Twitter – www.twitter.com/hwsuffolk
- facebook – facebook.com/HealthwatchSuffolk
Watch a short, informative film about Healthwatch Suffolk HERE
One Life Suffolk is a partnership between Leeds Beckett University and MoreLife, commissioned by Suffolk County Council.
They offer a range of services including:
- Smoking Cessation
- Weight Management – Adult and Child
- NHS Health checks
- Training
MECC training: book-a-making-every-contact-count-training-session
Contact Details:
Suffolk Family Carers is a registered charity working with family carers
of all ages by providing them with information, advice and guidance.
They have a range of services to support family carers including a mobile ‘carer’s bus’ supporting carers in rural locations.
You can make contact with Suffolk Family Carers using their Contact us page or by telephone on 01473 835477
Carer Friendly Pharmacy – Family Carer Champions currently exist or are being recruited in stores, and within teams. These Champions have a role helping all the staff in their area to remain focused on family carers, raise awareness of family carers, and promote their needs and family centred care, be a point of contact for the staff and family carer, and signpost to carer support services, keep themselves and others updated and assist in identifying and share information, and promote the giving out of information. They can also raise awareness of Suffolk Family Carers website for carer support.
Suffolk Family Carers have produced two posters to display in your pharmacy to promote awareness about carers:
Contact:
For more information, visit their website: www.suffolkfamilycarers.org or call: 01473 835477
Suffolk Mind is a registered Charity committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of people across the region. Suffolk LPC is working with our organisation to support communities across Suffolk to achieve good mental health and to access support services when needed.
We all have mental health as well as physical health and sometimes we have ill health. We all move along a mental health ‘continuum’ and can be at different stages dependant on factors that affect our lives. All of us are vulnerable to mental ill health. We offer services that can support people and help them to build emotional resilience, whatever stage of the mental health continuum they are on.
All of our services are easy to access and with the exception of supported housing, you can self refer by contacting them direct. They offer a wide range of courses, training and 1-2-1 therapeutic services that help to improve or maintain your mental wellbeing, they can also help you to support others.
Contact:
For more information, visit their website: www.suffolkmind.org.uk or call: 0300 111 6000
Please see Suffolk County Councils website to find support to manage dementia and memory loss, including information about living at home, caring for someone and legal matters.
Details and referral information for the dementia services provided by Dementia Connect, which is run by the Alzheimer’s Society in conjunction with Suffolk Family Carers, can be found HERE.
Community pharmacies that participate in the Ask for ANI scheme or Safe Spaces will find this information particularly useful in supporting victims.
Below is the email address for the main health business centre hub for School nursing, Health visiting and family hubs.
The health business hub will be able to forward onto the appropriate team if you want to get any information out to specific teams or not sure which team covers the area.
