Social Prescribing

What does a Social Prescriber do?

A social prescriber helps people find non-medical solutions to improve their well-being. They connect individuals with community resources and activities. This helps improve factors like social isolation, mental health, and lifestyle. The goal is to enhance quality of life by considering other aspects of a person’s health beyond medical treatment.

The service can help you:

  • Get support to improve your physical health.
  • Find employment or volunteering opportunities or learn a new skill.
  • Tackle money, housing, work or benefits issues.
  • Cope with a particular condition or difficulty.
  • Access ways of improving your emotional wellbeing such as befriending schemes, peer support or arts and leisure activities.

We now also have specialist Domestic Violence Social Prescribers.

This is for patients aged 18 and over.

Appointment Information

Availability

Telephone and face to face appointments are available during the week.

How to book an appointment

If you would like to speak to a social prescriber, you can let us know by calling us, sending an online request or by popping into the surgery. We will refer you to our Social Prescribing team and they will get in touch to book you in for an appointment.

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Dietician

What does a dietician do?

The dietician can provide individualised dietary information for our patients. This can help you:

  • Manage your diet better
  • Reduce the chance of developing other health problems.
  • Improve your knowledge and confidence
  • Set a dietary plan or goals with you.

They will also review your progress.

Please note: you must be 18 or older to work with the dietician.

Who are the dieticians that work with Burton Croft patients?

Riddhi specialises in Gastroenterology. She can help patients who have:

  • Inflammatory bowel disease (such as Crohn’s, Ulcerative colitis)
  • Pancreatitis
  • High cholesterol
  • Lack of appetite
  • Coeliac disease
  • Vegan diet
  • Disease related malnutrition

Vanessa specialises Diabetes. She will help manage diet and diabetic control for the following patients:

  • New diabetic patients with a Hba1c (blood sugar level) over 47
  • Any diabetic patient that need further help with diet to improve their Hba1c.

Appointment information

Availability

We have face to face appointments available on the following days:

Riddhi: Fridays at Headingley Library

Vanessa: Tuesdays at New Croft Surgery (Golden Bank House, 2 Broadgate Ln, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4SE)

Riddhi and Vanessa will arrange any follow ups after the initial appointment, this may mean they have availability on other week days or at other locations.

How to book

You can book in for a dietician appointment by calling us, sending an online request or popping into the surgery.

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Accessing Rapid Mental Health Services (ARMHS)

Who are the ARMHS team?

The Accessing Rapid Mental Health Services team work for our practice network. The team are Mental Health Link Workers who offer brief mental health interventions.

Who can they help?

The ARMHS team can help patients with low level mental health issues such as:

  • Depression/low mood
  • Anxiety (including social anxiety and health anxiety)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Stress (including work, academic or family issues)
  • Bereavement
  • Isolation
  • Low motivation

How can they help?

They can help with:

  • Coping skills
  • Guided self-help
  • Signposting you to extra support (Therapists, support groups)
  • Referring you on to an appropriate service for further care and support

How to book

You can request an appointment with the team by calling us, sending an online request or by popping in to the surgery.

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Podiatry

What does a Podiatrist do?

Podiatrists will diagnose, treat, prevent and rehabilitate complications of the feet, ankles and lower limbs. The aim is to relieve pain, treat infection and keep people of all ages mobile and active.

An appointment with the Podiatrist may be most appropriate if you have any of the following issues:

  • Pain in your foot/feet
  • Lack of senstantion in your foot/feet
  • Areas of swelling in foot
  • New marks/lesions on foot
  • Breaks in the skin on your foot that are not healing

Please note:

This is for patients aged 18 and over.

If you are a diabetic patient you will not be able to use this service, but if you have any of the above issues, please contact us so you can be seen by the most appropriate clinician/team.

Appointment Information

Availability

Telephone Assessments are available Monday – Friday. Ashleigh, our podiatrist will assess your needs, then arrange the most appropriate follow up.

Face to face appointments are available to book into on a Friday afternoon at Craven Road Surgery with Ashleigh.

How to book an appointment

You can book an appointment by calling us, sending an online request or popping into the surgery.

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Location Information

Craven Road Surgery (LS6 2RX)

Public Transport: You can get the number 6, 28, 27 or 8 Buses (going to Leeds City Centre), 1 or 1B buses(going to Beeston via city centre) to Hyde Park Corner, there is then a 13 minute walk. Buses 39 or 38 go via Meanwood Road.

There is a cycle route between Headingley and Woodhouse.

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First Contact Physiotherapist

What does a First Contact Physiotherapist do?

The First Contact Physiotherapists can assess patients with:

  • Soft tissue
  • Muscle pain
  • Joint pain
  • Sports injuries

They will assess the issue and then decide on the next steps. Examples include:

  • Giving you exercises to use
  • Requesting an x-ray
  • Referring you for further treatment.

This is for patients aged 18 and over.

Appointment Information

Availability

  • Mondays: 10:30 to 15:30 at Ireland Wood Surgery with Tom
  • Tuesdays: 8:00 to 15:10 at Burton Croft Surgery with Rob
  • Wednesdays: 13:20 to 15:30 at Ireland Wood Surgery with Helen
  • Thursdays: 8:00 to 11:30 at The Cardigan Centre with Rob
  • Saturdays: 8:00 to 15:30 at Ireland Wood Surgery (Please note this is every fortnight)

How to Book

You can book in for an appointment by calling us, sending an online request or by popping into reception. You will be offered the next available appointment.

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Location Information

Ireland Wood Surgery (LS16 6FR)

Public Transport: You can get the number 6 Bus (going to Holt Park) or the 19 bus (going to Ireland Wood).

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The Cardigan Centre (LS6 1LJ)

Public Transport: The 19 and 19A buses (going to Garforth) stop close to the Cardigan Centre. Buses 50, 50A and 49 (going to town centre) stop on Burley Road, there is a 6 minute walk from this stop. Burley Park train station is close by, and is a 7 minute walk from/to the Cardigan Centre.

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Health and Wellbeing Coaching

What does a Health and Wellbeing Coach Do?

Health and wellbeing coaches help people get healthier and lose weight if needed. A coach will work with you to make a plans for taking care of your health and reach your goals. Your coach will listen, support, and motivate you. Their aim is to help you build skills and confidence in making healthy changes.

This program is for people aged 18 and over.

Burton Croft’s Coach is Claudia.

Appointment Information

Availability

Telephone and face to face appointments are available Monday to Friday. The appointments are 30-45 minutes long and you will receive 6-8 sessions over a period of 12 weeks.

Claudia works at Burton Croft on Wednesday mornings. Claudia works in the community and other surgeries throughout the week so please note your appointment may not be located at Burton Croft Surgery.

How to book an appointment

You can book an appointment by calling the us, sending an online request or popping into reception.

We will refer you to the Health and Wellbeing coaches who will then contact you initially via telephone and book in your next appointments.

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Ageing Well Team

Who are the Ageing Well team?

The Ageing Well team are a multidisciplinary team supporting older patients.

The team has occupational therapists, community matrons, a pharmacist and care coordinators. They support patients with mild/moderate frailty, dementia and mental health decline.

What does the Ageing Well Team do?

Their aim is to keep people with with frailty needs as well as possible in their own homes. This helps patients to stay as independent as possible, maximises quality of life and involves the patient in their advanced care planning.

The Ageing Well team offer an assessment for patients in their own home. This allows the team and patient to identify their health and social care needs. They usually provide between 1-3 visits. This allows time to deliver interventions, make referrals and sign post other services.

How can the Ageing Well Team can help?

The following are examples of what the Ageing Well Team can help with:

  • Basic equipment provision
  • Assistive technology
  • Sleep management
  • Fatigue management
  • Activity planning to maintain/improve independence
  • Strategies to promote comfort and reduce distress
  • Memory assessment and management strategies
  • Mood and anxiety management
  • Advanced care planning
  • Managing Delerium
  • Preventative falls advice
  • Dementia Reviews

How to Book

You can request a review from the team by calling us, sending an online request or popping in to the surgery.

Please give a brief description to the receptionist as this will help the team. They will then telephone to arrange a visit to your home. The Ageing Well Team’s initial contact is usually within a week.

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Armed Forces Veteran Support

The Veteran Lead for Burton Croft Surgery is Chris Strangeway.

Top tips for getting the right care and support

Register with a GP
It is important to register with a GP, rather than wait until you need treatment.

Tell your GP that you’ve served in the UK Armed Forces
This will help your GP to better understand any military related health conditions that you may have and ensure that you are referred, where appropriate, to dedicated services for ex-forces. Further information below.

Give your GP the paperwork that your military medical centre gave you, including any medical records
If you’ve recently left the forces, it is important to do this to help ensure your military health record transfers to your NHS health record. This will give your GP information on your health and ensure that any ongoing care and treatment is continued.

It can sometimes take a while for your military health records to arrive at your NHS GP practice. If you have been getting hospital care or are having complex treatment, before you leave the services, ask you military doctor for a printout of your notes to give to your NHS doctor. A good time to ask would be at your final medication examination, which is often done about two months before handing in your ID card.

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Informing us you are a Veteran matters

Being flagged as a veteran in your NHS medical notes will help to ensure that you are able to access specific veterans’ health services, such as those for mental health, hearing loss, limb amputation and wheelchairs.

It also means that where you have an illness or medical condition that has been caused by your time in service or occurred whilst you were in the military, you may be entitled to a shorter hospital waiting list. For example, if you developed skin cancer as a result of serving overseas for many years, this would be included. However, if you need a gall bladder operation, it would be unlikely that this was due to military service and so you would be treated as a typical NHS patient. This is part of the health commitments of the Armed Forces Covenant.

With your consent, it can sometimes be helpful for your doctor to refer you to specific service charities, such as SSAFA, Royal British Legion, BLESMA or Help for Heroes. They can often offer significant help and support, even if they do not all deliver health care.

You may be worried about discussing elements of your time in service. Please note that the NHS is bound by a confidentiality code of practice to ensure GPs, nurses and other people working within the NHS deliver a confidential service bound by law.

Contraception: Coil services

What is the coil?

There are two types of coil, these are the intrauterine device (IUD) and the intrauterine system (IUS).

They are both small plastic, T-shaped devices which are put into your uterus (womb) and works as contraception for a number of years.

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Booking an appointment

The surgery can offer appointments for insertion, change and removal of coils.

Prior to your coil fitting appointment, please note the following:

Please ensure you have either abstained from sex or used a reliable form of contraception from the 1st day of your last period.
If you have not had a chlamydia test in this current relationship please ring reception for a self test at least 1 week prior to your appointment.
If your coil is being changed please use condoms or abstain from sex in the 7 days prior to your appointment.
You will be sent a consent form via text, please read and respond with “ I consent” 

For emergency contraception, coil removals or coil problems, please ring the surgery to speak to a GP on 0113 274 4777.

Screening services

Screening is a way of finding diseases and problems at an earlier stage in apparently healthy people, when treatment will be more successful.  Contents

  1. Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
  2. Bowel cancer screening programme
  3. Breast cancer screening programme
  4. Cervical cancer screening programme

Screening is a way of finding diseases and problems at an earlier stage in apparently healthy people when treatment will be more successful. The following screening services are offered as part of the NHS.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening is a way of detecting a dangerous swelling (aneurysm) of the aorta – the main blood vessel that runs from the heart, down through the abdomen to the rest of the body. This swelling is far more common in men aged over 65 than it is in women and younger men, so all men are invited for screening in the year they turn 65.

An AAA usually causes no symptoms, but if it bursts, it’s extremely dangerous and usually fatal. Around 8 out of 10 people with a ruptured AAA either die before they reach hospital or don’t survive surgery.

Screening involves a simple ultrasound scan of your stomach (abdomen), which takes about 10-15 minutes.

If you have been invited and lost the details, please contact Tel: 0113 3923740or Email: leedsth-tr.AAAScreening@nhs.net

Bowel cancer screening programme

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. Screening is offered every two years to all men and women aged 60 to 74 who are most at risk.  A home testing kit that is posted out to you. Please complete and return your testing kit which could save your life as it gives us the chance to detect the disease in its early stages.

Breast cancer screening programme

Breast cancer screening is offered to all women aged 50 – 70 to detect early signs of breast cancer. Women aged over 70 can make their own screening appointments by contacting the Leeds breast screening service on 0113 206 3816.

Breast cancer screening uses an X-ray test called a mammogram that can spot cancers when they are too small to feel. If breast cancer is discovered in its early stages, there is a very good chance of recovery.

Women who notice any breast symptoms or changes should make an appointment to see a GP immediately.

Cervical cancer screening programme

Cervical screening is available to all women aged 25 to 64.

If you are registered at the practice you should automatically receive an invitation by post every three years for women aged 25 – 49 and every five years for women aged 50 – 64. You simply need to contact the practice and make an appointment to see a nurse.

It is very important that you make these appointments, as early detection and treatment of abnormal cells can prevent cervical cancer.

If any concerns have been raised in the past, you may be invited for more frequent checks.