The term ‘social prescribing’ is used to describe a service which supports people to access a range of non-medical services and activities in their local area.
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.
You can refer yourself to the Linking Leeds social prescribing service without seeing the Dr.
Linking Leeds
Non-urgent advice: Giving up smoking is always beneficial for your health
Stopping smoking increases your life expectancy and helps improve your quality of life, not to mention making you wealthier as well!
Getting NHS support really works – it can be four times more successful than going it alone (cold turkey) and it’s completely free of charge.
Be Smoke Free
This is the service we recommend to our patients and is free to everyone. You can refer yourself without having to see a doctor.
If they recommend medication or patches to help you stop then we will prescribe them for you (according to your agreed treatment plan).
Be Free Service
There are a number of online resources and local clinics that you can refer yourself to without seeing the Dr.
Not sure if you need to loose weight then try out this weight calculating tool.
Manage Your Weight
For a range of advice and services to help you loose weight see the Better Health website
Manage Your Weight
There are also private services (that you would need to pay for) such as Weight Watchers and Slimming World who both provide popular classes locally.