Help and Support

Community SWITCH - a Path to Improved Health and Well-being

At The Cranborne Practice, we want to do all we can to help you with your well-being needs. 

What if together, we could do more for you?

Working with our colleagues in the Crane Valley Primary Care Network we offer a groundbreaking initiative designed to enhance local people's overall health and quality of life – Community SWITCH.

We understand that a patient's health and well-being extends beyond traditional medical care. Community SWITCH goes beyond the ordinary and empowering you with additional tools and opportunities to manage your health effectively.

Follow this link to discover more>>

The Community SWITCH and Crane Valley PCN logos
A picture of a couple walking in the woods with the Help and Care logo and the words, Dementia Coordinator Service. Many people living with Dementia feel that having support along their journey will maximise independent living and prevent a crisis. The Dementia Coordinator Service, delivered by Help and Care, is committed to supporting people to live well with Dementia.

Dementia Coordinator Service

Are you a carer for someone with dementia or a mental health condition?

Many people living with Dementia feel that having support along their journey will maximise independent living and prevent a crisis.

The Dementia Coordinator Service, delivered by Help & Care, is committed to supporting people to live well with Dementia.

For more information on support available to you, please visit our Carers Support page here>>

The Dementia Adventure Team

There are over 900,000 people living with dementia in the UK, and nearly 750,000 caring for them at home.
 
While we wait for a cure, Dementia Adventure want to support as many of those people to live active and fulfilled lives.
 
The Dementia Adventure Team support people to access these benefits through training for families, supported holidays, organisational training and research.
 

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Integrated Adult Pan Dorset Advocacy Service

SWAN (South West Advocacy Network) is a leading independent advocacy charity – providing advocacy services throughout the south west and bordering counties since 1999.  SWAN now offers an Advocacy Service across the county of Dorset. 

This integrated adult advocacy service includes statutory and generic advocacy elements including:

  • Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy  including Safeguarding Advocacy, Litigation Friend and Relevant Persons Representative
  • Independent Mental Health Advocacy
  • Care Act Advocacy
  • General / Generic advocacy
  • Continuing Healthcare Advocacy
  • Advocacy for parents during care proceedings
  • Carers Advocacy

For more information, please follow this link to download and view a leaflet which sets out the advocacy services that they currently offer across Pan Dorset. 

Or visit their website here>>

Local Support Groups

Other local groups providing help and support for specific needs. 

Arthritis Support Group

 
The Hampshire Arthritis Support Group meets in Fordingbidge, providing a space for those diagnosed with arthritis to meet face to face (under strict COVID protocols), to share their experiences and to get advice and support if they need it.  Commencing 26th October 2021, this informal group will meet monthly at The North Room, Avonway Community Centre 36 Shaftesbury St, Fordingbridge SP6 1JF.   Guest speakers including therapists and clinical specialists sometime attend and refreshments, level access and disabled toilet facilities are available at the venue.
 
For more information, please call Sarah Bealey at Arch Clinic on 01425 650071 or email services@versusarthritis.org.

Open Sight Hampshire

Open Sight Hampshire is a charity that supports those people in our community who are facing or living with the loss of their sight.

The Charity offers information, advice and guidance on the practical issues facing those with sight loss e.g. equipment supporting independent living (at whatever age), benefits, IT and communications as well as their organised social and support groups. FREE drop-in sessions are held on the first Monday of every month at Arch Clinic, Bartons Road, Fordingbridge SP6 1JD.

For more information visit their website at www.opensight.org.uk phone 02380 641 244 or email info@opensight.org.uk 

ParenTalk virtual peer support group

ParentTalk is a virtual peer support group for parent and infant wellbeing support. The group helps parents with with a child under five years of age and who experience mild-moderate anxiety, depression or low mood.  Facilitated by a health visitor and community nursery nurse or a colleague from BCP Council's Early Help Family Hubs, group courses take place digitally via Microsoft Teams over a six-week period and each week focuses on a different aspect of parent and infant wellbeing.  For more information  visit the ParenTalk web page on the Dorset HealthCare website here:>>