Wolverhampton North PCN - Social Prescribing Service

Wolverhampton North Network has launched our own in-house Social Prescribing service available to all patients registered at any of our practices:

Prestbury Medical Practice
Woden Road Surgery
Keats Grove Surgery
Cannock Road Medical Practice
Ashfield Road Surgery
Pendeford Health Centre
MGS Medical Practice
Bradley Health Centre
Ruskin Road Surgery
Showell Park Health Centre

Social Prescribing is a non-medical approach to improving your health and wellbeing by putting you in touch with voluntary and community organisations across Wolverhampton.

There is a wide range of areas of assistance that can be offered, including:

Debt/benefits advice
Walking groups
Gym classes
Friendship groups
Arts and crafts
Training and volunteering opportunities
Aids and adaptions issues
Social isolation
Welfare rights
Bereavement counselling
Counselling
Social prescribing is not designed to replace medical support but getting involved with groups and activities for things that you are interested in can lead to better mental and physical health. It aims to:

• help improve the quality of life of patients through education and low level support
• enable patients to develop friendships and networks
• raise patients’ awareness of available services

Your GP teams or community nursing teams are amongst the people who can refer you to the Social Prescribing service.

If you are referred you will be contacted by our Social Prescribing Link Worker, who will contact you and explain the service in more detail to you. By discussing your individual needs, we can find the best way to offer support, in a personalised and confidential manner.