Worker Service
How we can help.
- Woundcare clinics
- Diabetes reviews
- COPD reviews
- Administer Covid & Flu vaccinations
We Offer
- Paediatric (children routine appointments only)
- HCA routine appointments
- Smears
- LARC: GP Sexual Health Clinic; coils and implants insertion and removals.
- GP routine appointments
How we can help.
- The service provides personalised care and support and improves access to local support services to help people with cancer to lead as full and active life as possible
- Some examples of how they can support: Holistic Needs Assessment, Personalised care planning and goal setting management
Extended Access Service
We know it can be difficult for some people to get to our practices during the week and we have a range of appointments available with experienced, trained professionals in the evenings and at weekends including:
- GP: face to face and telephone appointments (Sat /Sun)
- Nurse: providing face to face appointments e.g. for long term condition reviews, smears (Sat /Sun)
- Healthcare Assistant: providing face to face appointments e.g. bloods, health checks (Sat /Sun)
- Long-acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) clinics (Sun)
- Pharmacist: providing telephone appointments e.g. medication reviews
- Physiotherapist (first contact) (Mon-Fri)
- Healthy Minds (support with anxiety, low mood etc) (Mon-Fri)
Our face to face appointments are in 2 of our practices – New Cross and Gibson Lane
In the UK, an average of 30% of GP appointments are for musculoskeletal (MSK) problems. Having physiotherapists work within GP practices and take over these appointments, means that patients get seen quicker and recover faster.
Plus – the workload is reduced for GPs helping to ease pressure off general practice.
First Contact Practitioner (FCP) is a new model evolving UK. It involves placing physiotherapists directly into GP practices and to treat patients who come into the clinic with musculoskeletal problems.
Health & Wellbeing Coach
- Do you want to improve the way that you manage your Long-Term Condition?
- Do you feel overwhelmed by a new diagnosis?
- Do you want to take more control of your health?
Health Coaching:
- Enables you to identify lifestyle changes and develop an action plan to improve your health outcomes
- Empowers you to take responsibility for your health & improve your self-management of your Long-Term Condition
- Encourages you to develop your coping strategies
You can self-refer by email [email protected] or contact Helen on 07453 336320. Alternatively ask your GP Practice to refer you to the “PCN Health & Wellbeing Coach”
Research shows that people who work with a Health & Wellbeing Coach:
- Feel Better
- Feel Happier
- Feel more in control
- Feel more confident
- Gain better health outcomes
Patient feedback:
“It’s nice to have someone to talk to and not feel judged and have someone who listens about my worries”
“Thank you for listening and understanding my health worries”
“I was going to cancel my Health & Wellbeing Coach appointment because I didn’t feel up to it but I’m so glad that I didn’t as I feel so much better after speaking to you”
“I now reflect more and focus on aspects of my health that I can control as opposed to what I can’t”
Linking Leads – Social Prescribing
Social prescribing can link you with services within the community to support you to improve your health & wellbeing. They can help with:
- Housing or money issues
- Wellbeing & emotional support – links with community groups
- Loneliness
- Meaningful social activities
What we do
We can link patients with services and activities within their community to improve their social, economic and mental wellbeing by;
- Giving patients an opportunity to discuss what is important to them.
- Link you patients with appropriate services within their community to support them to achieve their goals.
- Provide patients with their own wellbeing coordinator who will help to plan their next steps.
Please contact Linking Leeds to discuss any potential referrals. All referrals will be allocated to the wellbeing coordinator’s working within the relevant PCN.
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Planning Ahead Service
Our Planning Ahead Coordinator; can help patients and their families with:
• Recording the views of patients and their families/carers in relation to ‘What Matters to Me’
• Producing a ‘Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT)’ for the patient.
• Visiting patients in their homes and talk about what matters to them, power of attorney and will making, funeral arrangements and their preferences for their future care.
• Making referrals to related services and offers a further conversation about resuscitation with a clinician.
Topics that might be discussed during the Planning Ahead Appointment include how you are supported, what local support is available, your preferred place of care and death, Power of Attorney, will making and funeral arrangements.
what is planning ahead?
The Planning Ahead Service records your reflections about what you would like to happen towards the end of your life. The service specifically supports individuals with severe complex or long-term health needs and also people that have expressed an interested in planning for their future.
You can have a chat about your life and future plans with our Planning Ahead Coordinator. Topics that might pop up include; what matters to you, how you are supported, what local support is available, your preferred place of care and death, Power of Attorney, will making and funeral arrangements. You may be given leaflets or be referred to other services. These conversations take place in person in your home with your loved ones present and can be done over a number of visits.
After the conversations are complete, you will receive a ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) form to help inform other health care professionals about your preferences going forward. The ReSPECT form is an important document and Jo will explain its relevance during the home visits.
Who is eligible?
To be eligible to receive support patients must be registered with one of these GP practices: –
o Garforth Medical Centre
o Gibson Lane Practice
o Kippax Hall Surgery
o Lofthouse Surgery
o Moorfield House Surgery
o Nova Scotia Medical Centre
o Oulton Medical Centre
How to refer?
Patients can be referred to the Planning Ahead Coordinator by professionals or patients can refer themselves or a family member by emailing
[email protected] with the patient’s name, GP surgery and reason for referral.
Useful links
Age UK Leeds
City wide charity supporting older people in Leeds.
0113 389 3000/0113 389 3010
[email protected]
www.ageuk.org.uk
Leeds Bereavement Forum
Directory of Bereavement support in Leeds.
0113 225 3975
[email protected]
www.lbforum.org.uk
Leeds Palliative Care Network
Directory of Palliative and End of Life Care in Leeds.
Contact via the online form on the website.
www.leedspalliativecare.org.uk
Garforth Neighbourhood Elders Team
Charity supporting people age 60+ in Garforth and surrounding villages.
0113 2874784
[email protected]
www.netgarforth.org.uk
MHA Rothwell & District
Charity supporting people age 55+ in Rothwell
0113 2880887
www.mha.org.uk
The Swan Song Project
Leeds based charity which helps people experiencing bereavement, terminal illness or people who are planning their end stages of life to write songs
Contact via the online form on the website.
www.swansongproject.co.uk
Dying Matters in Leeds Dying Matter Leeds aims to help people talk more openly about dying, death and bereavement, and to make plans for the end of life.
0113 222 4444
www.dyingmattersleeds.org