Health & Wellbeing

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Adults

Maintaining a healthy weight is important for your overall health as it helps lower your risk of heart disease, stroke and certain cancers. Small, realistic changes to your diet can have an important positive effect.

Our course is designed by experts and is proven to help you lose weight in a safe and sustainable way. Please click link below to for self referral.

Free 12 Week weight management course.

Children

HENRY

HENRY (Health, Exercise, and Nutrition for the Really Young) is a charity aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles for families with children under 5. The 3 key features of HENRY are: information on food and physical activity, parenting skills and behaviour change.

Website - HENRY, email: info@henry.org.uk

Let’s Get Healthy with HENRY (LGHH) is a free 8 week course for parents and carers of babies and young children. It offers them the chance to share ideas and gain new skills and tools to address lifestyle issues in a supportive and fun environment

Healthy Start website

Pharmacies / centres that offer vitamins

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Healthy Start website

Pharmacies / centres that offer vitamins

Pregnant women, women with a baby under one year old and children from six months old to their fourth birthday on Healthy Start will get green Healthy Start vitamin coupons. These will be sent to you, with your Healthy Start vouchers, every eight weeks.

Healthy Start women’s vitamin tablets contain: Folic acid (reduces the chance of your baby having spina bifida, a birth defect where the spine doesn’t form properly), Vitamin C (helps maintain healthy tissue in the body), Vitamin D (helps your body to absorb calcium and so supports your baby’s bones to develop properly). Healthy Start children’s vitamins contain Vitamin A (for growth, vision in dim light and healthy skin), Vitamin C (helps maintain healthy tissue in the body), Vitamin D (for strong bones and teeth).

More information on Healthy Start vitamins can be found on the Healthy Start website, or call Claire Wass, Public Health Officer on 020 8489 1031. You can pick up an application form and get your healthy start vitamins from any of the children’s centres and participating pharmacies listed below:

Children’s Centres

Woodlands Park Children’s Centre Woodlands Park Road, N15 3SD
Triangle Children, Young People and Community Centre 91-93 St Ann’s Road, N15 6NU
The Ladder Children’s Centre Pemberton Road, N4 1BA
Welbourne Children’s Centre Stainby Road, N15 4EA
Broadwater Children’s Centre Adams Road, N17 6HE
Campsbourne Children’s Centre Nightingale Lane, N8 7AF
Earlsmead Children’s Centre Broad Lane, N15 4PW
Noel Park Children’s Centre Shropshire Hall, Gladstone Avenue, N22 6LD
South Grove Children’s Centre South Grove, N15 5QE
Woodside Children’s Centre 59 White Hart Lane, N22 5SJ

Pharmacies - Pharmacy / health centres that offer Healthy start vitamins

Boots 137-139 High Road, N22 6BA
The Cadge Pharmacy 105 Philip Lane, N15 4JR
Safedale Pharmacy 491-493 Seven Sisters Road, N15 6EP
Tesco Pharmacy 230 High Road, N15 4AJ
Dowsett Pharmacy 57 Dowsett Road, N17 9DD
DP Mark Chemist 4 Grand Parade, Green Lanes, N4 1JX
Pharmacy Express 214 High Road, N22 8HH
Phillips Chemist 193 Lordship Lane, N17 6XE

Domestic Violence

Cross Government Definition of Domestic Violence:

"Any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexuality"

The definition also includes 'honour' based violence, female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.

(Definitions provided by IRIS)

If you are looking for immediate help or support, please contact one of the following organisations: (In an emergency, always dial 999)

National Domestic Violence Helpline

The 24hr freephone National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between Women’s Aid and Refuge) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The helpline is answered by fully trained female support workers and volunteers, who will answer your call in confidence. Call 0800 2000 247

Men’s Advice Line

Men’s Advice Line is a confidential helpline for men experiencing domestic violence from a partner or ex-partner (or from other family members).

Call freephone 0808 801 0327 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm or email info@mensadviceline.org.uk

Respect

Confidential helpline offering advice, information and support to help you stop being violent and abusive to your partner.

You can call them in confidence and for free on 0808 802 4040

Coordinate My Care (CMC)

Coordinate My Care (CMC) is an online personalised care plan accessible to healthcare providers (including The Vale Practice, the ambulance services, out of hours GPs, hospital staff and people providing social care).

This allows you to express your wishes about your care and to help the urgent care services to know more about you if you need them. You can let us know your wishes regarding where and how you wish to be treated depending on how unwell you are, who we should contact in an emergency and even what you would want if your condition was to get worse.

Coordinate My Care ensures that you get the care that you want, in the place that you want. We feel that it is important that any views about your future care that we might not yet be aware of are recorded properly.

If you think a CMC plan might be of benefit to you or to your loved one, please get in touch with the practice and ask to speak to a doctor or nurse about it.

There is more information here https://www.coordinatemycare.co.uk/for-patients