Our Health Coaches: – Trudi, Liz, and Claire
We are a non-clinical part of an extended healthcare team working closely with the clinical team in your surgery.
We are a trusted point of contact for patients and can offer continuity of care, we may give you a wellbeing call after a hospital stay.
We support patients, their families and their carers living with long term medical conditions such as Diabetes, Cancer, Dementia.
We will support you to find the aids you need to help with your mobility to enable you to live independently.
We can help you negotiate the adult social care service or assist you to find a private carer to help you at home.
We can signpost patients to local community groups and services.
We will support you to make your own decisions and help you gain the knowledge to improve your health and wellbeing.
We can listen to patients and help set goals to support lifestyle changes. Nobody knows you better than you know yourself and we believe everyone is capable of making positive changes in their lives.
You can self-refer to a Health Coach by ringing the surgery on 01935 850225 or you can be referred to us by any member of the team at Queen Camel Medical Centre.
LIVING WITH PAIN IS A PAIN, BUT COMING TOGETHER CAN BE
PAIN RELIEF!
Do you live with a long-term persistent pain condition? Does it affect your emotional wellbeing and get you down? Does it stop you sleeping well? Does it restrict your daily activities and stop you doing the things you want to do?
The Rural Practice Network (a group of 5 local GP surgeries covering Castle Cary, Bruton, Wincanton, Queen Camel & Milborne Port), is developing a new, non-medical pain management programme called Live Well with Pain – the Ten Footsteps – which is available to people registered with any of these 5 practices.
The Ten Footsteps programme addresses understanding pain & the brain, acceptance, pacing, goal setting, relaxation & mindfulness, sleep, communication, getting moving, managing moods, medication and nutrition, and managing setbacks.
We have a monthly in-person Live Well with Pain café at the communal lounge in Cleaveside Close (BA22 7PR) in Queen Camel which runs on the second Wednesday of each month from 11.30am to 12.30pm. This is an informal and welcoming drop-in café, where people with long-term pain conditions can come and meet & chat to others in the same situation and hear about the Ten Footsteps.
An online Live Well with Pain café happens on Microsoft Teams on the third Wednesday of each month from 7.00-8.00pm and is open to anyone registered with the 5 GP surgeries who would like to attend.
We are also offering a 12-week Ten Footsteps group, which consists of twelve two-hour sessions that look in-depth at each topic, with plenty of time for refreshments and getting to know others in the same situation. We want to help people to find new ways of managing their pain which we hope will lead to a more fulfilling life, despite the pain.
If you are interested in hearing more and finding out what is happening locally, please speak to Health Coach Liz Webber, or email Sue Crisfield [email protected] or call her on 07749 418850 or send a message through the Rural Practice Network Facebook page.
Read more about the Ten Footsteps here – www.livewellwithpain.co.uk
