Social Prescribing & Carer Support

Working in partnership with your GP & Carers Support

Social Prescribing can help you with a range of issues to improve your overall wellbeing...

• Making choices about your housing situation.
• Helping you settle successfully into your new home; for example, finding furniture, household items and setting up utility accounts.
• Developing skills so you can manage in your home.
• Claiming relevant welfare and other benefits and/or grants.
• Dealing with rent arrears and other problems.
• Accessing other services that you may need. For example, Health and Social Care or specialist debt advice services or services to support carers.
• Accessing education, training and employment opportunities.
• Support to return home following a stay in hospital including pre-planned procedures.
• Making sure that you have food and other essential supplies.
• Help with home adaptations and equipment such as key safes and handrails that will make your home safer for you.
• Helping you to find opportunities to overcome loneliness and isolation including meeting people and volunteering   

Support for Carers including Young Carers

• Alliance also provides support for carers and young carers
• Young Carers :
  • https://www.alliancehomes.org.uk/support/support-for-carers/support-for-young-carers/ 
• Adult Carers :
  • https://www.alliancehomes.org.uk/support/support-for-carers/support-for-adult-carers/ 
• Contact Carers support 
  • https://www.alliancehomes.org.uk/support/support-for-carers/contact-carers-support/ 
• As a carer you may be eligible to additional help and support.  As a GP Surgery it is important for us to know so that we can offer you a flu jab or a carers health check.  Its important for us to know the additional responsibilities you have to care for a loved one so we can best support you.