At Townhead Surgery we recognise that people’s health and wellbeing can be affected by a range of social, economic and environmental factors.

Social Prescribing Service empowers people with the skills and knowledge to improve their health and social wellbeing by connecting them to a range of non clinical services, available in your community.

Who is it for?

The Social Prescribing Service helps people over 18, with social, emotional or practical needs.

How to access the service?

Please speak to a member of the Practice Team if you think you may benefit from the Social Prescribing service.

Appointments last up to 1 hour. For more information, please contact Townhead on 01729 822611

---

Social Prescribing Directory North Craven

Who Are We?

The Early Intervention Service consists of a broad range of staff, trained and experienced in working with people experiencing psychosis and their families.

We employ specialist mental health professionals, many of whom also have expertise in working with children, substance misuse, and social recovery (including work and education), and the needs of minority communities. We also employ staff who have had on personal experience of psychosis.

Working in partnership with local primary care, mental health, social services and the voluntary sector, we aim to meet the full range of needs of people referred to us and provide effective and acceptable interventions aimed at achieving recovery.

---

How to Access the Service

To refer or be referred to The Early Intervention service, you or a family member can contact us directly or by e-mail if you prefer. We also accept referrals from other professionals, such as GP’s.

Contact Us

Early Intervention Service

Culture Fusion

125 Thornton Road

Bradford

BD1 2EP

People are available to take your call Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

Telephone

01274 221021

Hub Duty Phone

07738 985 806

E-mail

earlyintervention@bdct.nhs.uk

---

What do We Mean by Psychosis?

The word ‘psychosis’ is an umbrella term for a wide range of experiences that can be found in a range of experiences. Many of these are everyday experiences but for various reasons they become difficult and distressing and impact negatively on different aspects of a person’s life.

Psychosis is often triggered by a combination of stressful experiences or situations or trauma, which can be recent or past trauma. There are many cultural and individual ways of understanding the experiences of psychosis. It is important to understand each person’s beliefs about the experiences and ideas they are having to enable us to work together towards the best outcome.

It is possible to recover from psychosis, with the right help and support. It is important that people access help and support as early as possible.

---

Who Is The Service For?

Anybody aged between 14 and 65 years old who is experiencing some of the following:

Hearing noises or voices that others don’t seem to hear. Other senses can also be affected, e.g. seeing, smelling, tasting or physically feeling things others can’t.Changes in how events, people and thoughts are perceived.Feeling suspicious about other people.Experiencing beliefs and thoughts that cause distress and/or change the way a person behaves.Changes in behaviour maybe to changes in usual behaviour, such as becoming more isolated or reduced motivation OR doing things you wouldn’t usually do, some of which could be risky.These problems can develop gradually over time or happen suddenly. They may occur occasionally or often.

If you or a person you know is having any of these experiences, you can contact us on:

Please call 01274 221021

Private Medical Fees

Available Services

Townhead Surgery provides several private medical services not covered by the NHS. These include:

• HGV medicals
• Private medical insurance reports
• Certain overseas travel vaccinations
• Private medical letters containing factual information from medical records

Note: VAT at the current rate applies to some services. A complete list of services and fees is available at reception.

Services We Cannot Provide

We do not carry out tests eg Blood or Urine tests, which have been requested by your Private Consultant, Insurance Company etc.

For your safety and legal reasons, we cannot provide fitness assessments or clearance for high-risk activities.

This include letters or certificates for:

• Fitness to fly or travel
• High-risk sports (mountaineering, skydiving, paragliding)
• Sporting events (marathons, triathlons)
• Scuba diving medicals
• Adventure travels or extreme sports

Why we cannot provide these services:

• They require specialist medical knowledge beyond general practice
• Providing such certifications could expose the practice to legal liability

For up-to-date fees and further information, please enquire at reception.

Support for carers is available from:

• Patient Information and Helpful Links

Talk to your GP if you think you would benefit from seeing a counsellor.

Some minor operations are performed at the surgery.

Appointments can be made with a Practice Nurse or if preferred you can ask for an appointment with Dr Lucy Green or Dr Helen Robinson. Cervical smear appointments are also available to book online, if you have any online account.

Stopping smoking

Stop smoking with support from our Living Well Smokefree team.

We offer a free personalised service for six to 12 weeks to help you quit smoking. This includes:

• access to a dedicated, local stop smoking advisor
• a supply of Nicotine Replacement Therapy – other stop smoking quit aids are available subject to availability
• weekly one-to-one sessions either in person at one of our clinics (by appointment), remotely or a combination of the two

We know that people who use this combination of support are more likely to quit for good.

Contact us and one of our advisors will be in touch to help make the best arrangements for you.

We will meet anyone from the age of 12. If you are pregnant and would like to quit, you can access the service yourself or ask your midwife to refer you.

Our stop smoking clinics take place throughout the week in some of our venues across the county but local ones are

• Skipton Childrens Hub
• South Craven Library

It is never too late to quit and when you stop smoking there are almost immediate improvements to your health. It reduces your risk of illness, disability or death caused by cancer, heart or lung disease. It also helps protect the health of the people around you by reducing their exposure to second-hand smoke. Quitting could save you around £2,000 a year too.

If you are pregnant, stopping smoking is even more important. The risks of smoking during pregnancy are serious, from premature delivery to increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and sudden infant death.

Other useful information to help stop smoking

Nicotine Replacement Therapy products are free to people who do not pay prescription charges. For those who do it will cost a prescription charge per product, which is cheaper than the cost of smoking cigarettes. Buying a three-month prescription prepayment certificate is cost-effective as it covers all your prescriptions within this period no matter how many you need. This certificate costs £31.25. Get a prescription prepayment certificate on the GOV.UK website.

If you would like to try going smokefree yourself there are other free quit tools and tips available:

• download the NHS Smokefree app on the NHS website
• free Personal Quit Plan on the NHS website
• stop smoking in pregnancy information on the NHS website
• Cancer Research website also provides information on how to stop smoking

Available to answer any quesions patients may have regarding any new, current or old medications.

This check is part of a national scheme to help prevent the onset of certain conditions such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes or kidney disease. 

Everyone between the ages of 40 and 74 who has not already been diagnosed with these conditions will be invited by letter for a check once every 5 years. It’s impossible to say that someone will or will not go on to develop one of these conditions but by taking action now, it can help to lower your potential risk and improve your chances of living a healthier life.

If you are outside of this age range and concerned about your health, you should contact your doctor.