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Support links for patients

The following websites are available for additional support for your patients. Please feel free to download the PDF versions to share with your patients as you see fit.

  • Finance
  • Mental health
  • Hip and pain support
  • Carers and family
  • Counselling
  • Other support services

Finance

Download financial support links (PDF, 132 kB)

UK Bill Help

UK Bill Help offer assistance in the local area with:

  • Housing
  • Food
  • Utilities
  • Grants
  • Debt
  • Taxes

Christians Against Poverty

Christians Against Poverty offer local services, searchable by postcode. These include:

  • Debt Advice
  • Life Skills
  • Job Clubs
  • Fresh Start

Open to all. Non-Christians also welcome

Telephone: 01274 760720
Email: info@capuk.org

Citizens Advice

Citizens Advice offers support to those who are dealing with money issues. This includes helping them to deal with debt problems and for getting their finances back in shape.

Get in touch online.

Telephone: Adviceline (England) 0800 144 8848; Advicelink (Wales): 0800 702 2020

Mental Health and Money Advice

Mental Health and Money Advice give clear, practical advice and support for people experiencing issues with mental health and money.

MoneyHelper

Moneyhelper advise on a range of money matters, including penions, as well asw tools and calculators to help.

Telephone: 0800 138 7777

StepChange

StepChange provide free, confidential advice and support to anyone worried about debt.

Get in touch online.

Telephone: 0800 138 1111

National Debtline

National Debtline provides free, independent and confidential advice about debt. You can contact them over the telephone, by e-mail or letter.

Get in touch online.

Telephone: 0808 808 4000.

Turn2us

Turn2us is a national charity that helps people in financial hardship gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and support services.

Telephone: 0808 802 2000
Email: info@turn2us.org.uk

Money Advice Service

The Money Advice Service is a free, impartial advice service set up by the government. The service offers guidance across a wide range of money matters.

Telephone: 0800 138 7777

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Mental health

Download mental health support links (PDF, 113 kB)

Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental illness directly support almost 60,000 people every year across England to get through crises, to live independently and to realise they are not alone. And we change attitudes and policy for millions.

Telephone: 0808 801 0525

Samaritans

Samaritans offer emotional support 24 hours a day.

Telephone: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.org

Anxiety UK

Anxiety UK is a national registered charity formed in 1970, by someone living with agoraphobia, for those affected by anxiety, stress and anxiety-based depression.

Telephone: 03444 775 774
Email: support@anxietyuk.org.uk

MIND

Mind, the mental health charity, is there to make sure no one has to face a mental health problem alone.

Telephone: 0300 123 3393
Email: infoline@mind.org.uk

NHS Mental health services

The NHS mental health services include telephone numbers as well as sites for self-referral.

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Hip and pain support

Download hip and pain support links (PDF, 109 kB)

NHS hip replacement

The NHS provides an overview of what recovery from a Hip Replacement may involve.

The Pain Toolkit

The Pain Toolkit is for pain self-management and is designed for people who live with persistent pain and provide support via various Healthcare teams.

Versus Arthritis

The Versus Arthritis helpline is a free, confidential service, which is open to anyone affected by arthritis. Open from 9am until 8pm, Monday to Friday, the helpline advisors aim to bring all of the information and advice about arthritis into one place to provide tailored support for you.

Anyone can use the service, from people who have just been diagnosed or who have had arthritis for some time, family members and health professionals. If not able to help with an entire query they then provide comprehensive signposting on to further sources of help and information.

The Hipster Club

The Hipster Club | WHEN YOU’RE JUST TOO HIP… This is a website/blog started by a member of public about hip replacements. It offers tips for others in the same position as well as a network of others on the same journey.

The Royal Osteoporosis Society local support

Search for a local support group in your area, provided by the osteoporosis society.

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Carers and family

Download careas and family support links (PDF, 103 kB)

Care for the Family

Care for the Family is a national charity which aims to promote strong family life and to help those who face family difficulties. They focus primarily on the following areas of family life: marriage, parenting and bereavement.

Their aim is to be accessible to every family whatever their circumstances and to create resources and support that are preventative, evidence-based and easy to apply.

Telephone: 029 2081 0800
Email: mail@cff.org.uk

Carers UK

Carers UK makes life better for carers.

Rethink carer support

Rethink is a national organisation that offers a wide range of online support and advice for carers.

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Counselling

Download counselling support links (PDF, 118 kB)

Lateef Project

The Lateef Project Islamic counselling can help you address, process, and manage your mental health problems, questions, and worries.

Get in touch online.

Email: info@lateefproject.org

BAATN (Black, African and Asian Therapy Network)

BAATN provide a therapist directory (varying costs may apply).

Telephone: 020 3600 0712
Email: connect@baatn.org.uk

Relate

Relate is a confidential service for adult couples and families that provides relationship counselling, sex therapy and family counselling.’

Email: enquiries@relate-avon.org.uk

BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)

BACP provide a list of registered accredited therapists and organisations offering counselling and psychotherapy.

Some charitable organisations offer free treatment. Private therapists charge between £10 and £60 per session.

Moodzone

Moodzone offers a  list of mental health helplines. Whether you’re concerned about yourself or a loved one, these helplines can offer expert advice.

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Other support services

Download other support service links (PDF, 122 kB)

Shout 85258

Shout is a 24/7 UK crisis text service available for times when people feel they need immediate support.By texting ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 a Texter will be put in touch with a trained Crisis Volunteer (CV) who will chat to them using trained techniques via text. The service is designed to help individuals to think more clearly and to take their next steps to feeling better.

The Silver Line

The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. There is an online referral form.

Get in touch online.

Telephone: 0800 4 70 80 90

Alcoholics Anonymous Great Britain

Alcoholics Anonymous Great Britain supports the personal recovery and continued sobriety of alcoholics.

Telephone: 0800 9177 650 (free national helpline)
Email: help@aamail.org

Muslim Community Helpline

The Muslim Community Helpline is a national organisation for women, men, youth and children which was launched in 2007. They are there to help and support , whatever your needs, and have trained volunteers with many years of experience on hand five days a week. They aim to provide a listening and emotional support service for members of the community in the United Kingdom. The service operates Monday to Thursday 10 am to 1 pm, Friday 10 am to 4 pm.

Telephone: 0208 904 8193 or 0208 908 6715
Email: ess4m@btinternet.com

Men’s Sheds

Banishing loneliness and isolation isn’t easy, which is why Men’s Sheds encourages local communities to come together to build, fix and restore projects as well as themselves!

Telephone: 0300 772 9626
Email: admin@ukmsa.org.uk

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