Abuse
National Support
SafeLives
If you are experiencing domestic abuse or are supporting someone who is in that situation, immediate help is available.
National Domestic Violence Helpline
Are you experiencing domestic abuse? You are not alone. The Helpline can help you find a refuge vacancy for you and your children; call us them more information. They can also support you to find other specialist services in your community, which can provide support whether or not you have left your partner. If you are experiencing domestic abuse or are supporting someone who is in that situation, immediate help is available.
Survivors UK – Male Rape and Sexual Abuse Support
Survivors UK help sexually abused men, as well as their friends and family, no matter when the abuse happened, and challenge the silence and attitudes.
Rape Crisis
National organisation offering support and counselling for those affected by rape and sexual abuse.
Victim Support
As an independent charity, we work towards a world where people affected by crime or traumatic events get the support they need and the respect they deserve. We help people feel safer and find the strength to move beyond crime. Support is free, confidential and tailored to your needs.
Refuge
Every single day Refuge works tirelessly to support thousands of women and children experiencing domestic violence and other forms of gender based violence.
Adiction
Local Support
Change Grow Live
This Camden wide service who can provide a range of support for drug and alcohol use
Breathe Stop Smoking
Breathe Stop Smoking Service is a flexible service offering you support and advice from our friendly team of specialist advisors.
National Support
We are With You
We Are With You provides free, confidential support to people who have issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.We work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether.
Drug FAM
A lifeline of safe, caring and professional support to families, friends and partners who are struggling to cope with the nightmare of a loved one’s addiction to drugs or alcohol and to those who have been bereaved by addiction or related causes.
Be Gamble Aware
Free, confidential help for anyone who is worried about their or someone else’s gambling. If you need help right away, call or live chat with an Adviser now through the National Gambling Treatment Service – available 24/7 for advice and help finding the right support.
Talk to Frank
If you have a problem with drugs Talk to Frank for friendly, confidential drugs advice.
Turning Point
Every 30 minutes someone leaves Turning Point’s services drink or drugs free. Turning Point offer you or a loved one a range of services depending on what you need, from detox and residential rehab to supported living and aftercare support.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Autism
National Support
National Autistic Society
Founded in 1962, they are the UK’s leading charity for autistic people and their families. Their goal is to help transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people.
Autism Independent UK
Autism Independent UK helps to increase awareness of autism to the notice of all, together with well established and newly developed approaches in the diagnosis, assessment, education and treatment.
Dimensions
They support people with learning disabilities and autism to have a louder voice, choice and control in their lives.
ASD Helping Hands
ASD Helping Hands will support all service users affected by an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) regardless of age or what stage of life they are at. We aim to offer guidance, practical advice and support whether you are personally affected or you are an associated family member, carer, friend or professional. We will actively champion the rights of all people affected by an ASD and aim to make a positive difference to their lives while delivering a service that is accessible, reliable and trust
Bereavement
Local Support
Bereavement Counselling
There is a specific bereavement counselling service for patients living in Camden. You can refer yourself using the following link
Self refer for bereavement counselling
National Support
Child Bereavement UK
Child Bereavement UK help children and young people (up to age 25), parents, and families, to rebuild their lives when a child grieves or when a child dies. They also provide training to professionals, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families.
Sands Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Charity
Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK. Sands exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to ensure that anyone affected by the death of a baby receives the best possible care and support for as long as they need it.
Compassionate Friends
TCF offers many different kinds of support for bereaved families. Whatever the cause of your loss, wherever you are in the UK, and whatever your circumstances – they are here to help.
Brake
Brake’s helpline is a quality accredited, Freephone, confidential support service, providing information and advocacy, emotional support and a listening ear for survivors of road crashes.
Scotty’s Little Soldiers
Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting children and young people who have lost a parent serving in the British Armed Forces.
Child Death Helpline
The Child Death Helpline aims to provide a quality freephone service to anyone affected by the death of a child of any age. Callers to the helpline might be parents, grandparents, siblings, other family members, friends or involved professionals.
Cruse – Bereavement Support
We help people through one of the most painful times in life – with bereavement support, information and campaigning.
Hope Again
Hope Again is the youth website of Cruse Bereavement Care. It is a safe place where you can learn from other young people, how to cope with grief, and feel less alone.
Cancer Support
National Support
Orchid – Fighting Male Cancer
Orchid exists to save men’s lives from testicular, prostate and penile cancers through pioneering research and promoting awareness.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Physical, financial and emotional support to help you live life as fully as you can.
Cancer Research UK
Free information service provided by Cancer Research UK about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families.
Live Better With Cancer
Making day-to-day life a little bit better for people living with cancer.
Carers
National Support
Carers UK
Caring will affect us all at some point in our lives. We’ll be here for you when that happens. With your help, we can be there for the 6,000 people who start looking after someone each day.
Carers Trust
Carers Trust is a major charity for, with and about carers. They work to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. Their vision is that unpaid carers count and can access the help they need to live their lives.
Child Health
National Support
NSPCC
If you’re worried about a child, even if you’re unsure, contact NSPCC professional counsellors for help, advice and support.
Childline
Offers free, confidential advice and support for any child 18 years or under, whatever the worry.
Contact: For families with disabled children
Contact support families with the best possible guidance and information. For every shape and size of family, whatever they need and whatever their child’s disability.
Dyspraxia Foundation
The helpline is available to help you with problems and issues you may encounter; offering help and advice to people with dyspraxia, parents, carers, and families about or on the subject of dyspraxia.
Cleft Lip and Palate Association
The helpline is available to help you with problems and issues you may encounter; offering help and advice to people with dyspraxia, parents, carers, and families about or on the subject of dyspraxia.
Change4Life
Change4Life aims to help your family be healthier and happier. Find out more about what’s really in the food your family eats.
Diabetes
National Support
NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme
Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is part of the national programme which is expected to provide support to 100,000 individuals each year.Those referred to the service will receive tailored, personalised support to reduce their risk of Type 2 diabetes including education on healthy eating and lifestyle, help to lose weight and physical exercise programmes, all of which together have been proven to reduce the risk of developing the disease.
Better Living
Find practical help with managing Type 2 diabetes through this informative toolkit.
Diabetes UK
Contact support families with the best possible guidance and information. For every shape and size of family, whatever they need and whatever their child’s disability.
Disabilities
National Support
Guide Dogs
Anxiety UK was formed in 1970, by Katharine and Harold Fisher as a result of Katharine’s experience of agoraphobia and her desire to develop support for others similarly affected.
Deafblind UK
Deafblind UK supports people with combined sight and hearing loss to live the lives they want. Losing your sight and hearing can be frightening. The charity’s team of experts is here every step of the way to show you life beyond sight and hearing loss.
Limbless Association
A support group for amputees or those about to become amputees and their families, carers and friends to seek answers to common problems.
Contact: For families with disabled children
Contact support families with the best possible guidance and information. For every shape and size of family, whatever they need and whatever their child’s disability.
Disability Rights UK
Disability Rights UK is the UK’s leading organisation led by, run by, and working for Disabled people where everyone can participate equally.
Action on Hearing Loss
As the largest charity for people with hearing loss in the UK, Action on Hearing Loss understands how hearing loss can affect everything in your life from your relationships, to your education and your job prospects. They are there to support and help you, so you can take back control and live the life you choose.
National Autistic Society
Founded in 1962, they are the UK’s leading charity for autistic people and their families. Their goal is to help transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people.
Elderly Care
National Support
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Age UK
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. Age UK believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this.
The Silver Line
The Silver Line is the only free confidential helpline providing information, friendship and advice to older people, open 24 hours a day, every day of the year
Cinnamon Trust
Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of human sadness and animal suffering.
Family Support
National Support
Family Lives
Family Lives is a national charity providing support in all aspects of family life.
Housing
National Support
Crisis
At Crisis we understand what you need to find your way out of homelessness. We can help you get set up for a more stable future.If you are homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless, we can help you.To us, homeless means sleeping on the streets or living in a hostel, shelter or refuge. It also means living in supported housing because you have been homeless, sofa surfing, or living with friends/family as you have nowhere else to go. And it can mean living in a B&B, or squat.
Shelter
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
Keep Fit
Maternity & Parenting
National Support
The National Childbirth Trust
Their mission is to support parents through the first 1,000 days, to have the best possible experience of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
ICON
Baby crying is normal, you can cope. Please follow the ICON guidance for coping with crying.
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families.
TAMBA (Twins and Multiple Births Association
Tamba is a UK based charity helping people around the world. They were set up by parents of multiples and interested professionals in 1978.
Baby Centre
BabyCentre® reaches more than 45 million mums globally each month in nine different languages, including eight in 10 new and expecting mums online in the UK.
Mens Health
National Support
Prostate Cancer UK
Have you or any of your loved ones recently had prostate surgery and are experiencing issues? Are you interested in meeting others who, like you, are coping with these issues?
Mental Health
Local Support
Brandon Centre
Young People aged between 16 and 24 can access counselling and psychotherapy at the Brandon Centre locally
Visit the Brandon Centre website
National Support
Mind
Mind provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding.
Rethink Mental Illness
Rethink Mental Illness improve the lives of people severely affected by mental illness through a network of local groups and services, expert information and successful campaigning. The goal is to make sure everyone affected by severe mental illness has a good quality of life.
Anxiety UK
Anxiety UK was formed in 1970, by Katharine and Harold Fisher as a result of Katharine’s experience of agoraphobia and her desire to develop support for others similarly affected.
Samaritans
Samaritans offer a safe place for you to talk any time you like, in your own way – about whatever’s getting to you. You don’t have to be suicidal. Call Samaritans free, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
Combat Stress
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For a century, they’ve helped former servicemen and women with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
CALM (Campaign against living miserably)
The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.
Young Minds
Young Minds is leading the fight for a future where all young minds are supported and empowered, whatever their challenges.
Dementia UK
Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.
Further information
For more information about mental health, ways to cope with it and more
Physiotherapy
Local Support
Wandsworth MSK
Working with the NHS, Vita Health Group offers unique insight and treatment in holistic person-centred care’
Sexual Health
National Support
SexWise
Honest advice about contraception, pregnancy, STIs and pleasure.
Brook
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health and wellbeing services.
Family Planning Association
A sexual health charity, the Family Planning Association gives straightforward information and support on sexual health, sex and relationships to everyone in the UK.
Termination of Pregnancy
National Support
British Pregancy Advisory Service
The UK’s leading abortion care service
Marie Stopes UK
We specialise in treatment, advice & support for women considering abortion.
ADHD
ADHD Diagnosis and Subsequent management at Thurleigh Road Practice
ADHD diagnosis and ongoing management including prescribing medications
There has been increasing awareness of and concern about accessing a proper diagnosis for ADHD. This includes making a management plan including prescribing medication.
As many of you will know ADHD NHS secondary services have very long queues.
General practice cannot diagnose ADHD. This needs to be done by a specialist psychiatrist after a thorough assessment.
General practice cannot monitor ADHD, start ADHD medication or alter ADHD medication.
Some patients whose medication is stable contact us about whether we might be able to take over prescribing their medication. This document is aimed to help people understand what this involves
There are two options for ongoing management of ADHD medication
- The first is that the consultant psychiatrist continues to see the patient regularly arranges the prerequisite monitoring and prescribing for the patient. We would ask that from time to time they write to us to let us know what they are prescribing so we can note it down in our records. This is our preferred option.
- The second option is to consider whether some of the prescribing can be done by general practice. Parliament hill medical centre will consider doing this in certain situations
TRP will consider a shared care arrangement in the following circumstances
- If the practice is confident in the nature of the diagnostic process and the ongoing relationship between the person with ADHD and their specialist. This involves as a minimum the requirements of the person remains under the psychiatrist and consults with them twice a year.
- The psychiatrist will be responsible for monitoring the ADHD including the effect of the medication and the physical health checks.
- The psychiatrist will furnish the practice with a completed shared care agreement at the start and after each change of medication once the patient has been stabilised on the change of medication for three months.
- The Patient will undertake to consult with the Psychiatrist and ensure that the physical health checks including weight/BP is provided to the psychiatrist. For the avoidance of doubt It will not be possible for the practice to forward patients bp/weight/blood results/ECG results to the psychiatrists. The patient will need to ensure that they can access those tests – including the results via the NHS app- and forward them to the ADHD team managing them.
- The Psychiatrist will furnish the practice with regular update on the progress of the care they provide. For Patients who seek care in the private sector this may not be an automatic process and may need facilitating by the patient.
We have recently been increasingly asked to prescribe for people who have been assessed in the private sector for ADHD.
We do not automatically transfer scripts from the private sector to an NHS prescription.
We will consider transferring private prescriptions for ADHD medication to an NHS script under the circumstances delineated above. This may well take a not inconsiderable period of time to set up. Please do factor this into your plans/decisions regarding management of your condition
ADHD MEDICATION SHORTAGE
There are challenges with the Global supply chain for ADHD medication.
Please will you request your ADHD medication 7 days prior running out of your medication. We aim to issue repeat prescriptions within 48 hours.
Please go to the pharmacist to collect your medication soon thereafter.
If you are struggling at that point to get your normally prescribed ADHD medication from your pharmacist please contact the psychiatrist/ADHD team you are under.
Please ask your psychiatrist to recommend and prescribe a different medication. If the psychiatrist is unable to issue the medication please ask them to contact the practice with their suggested replacement ASAP. We will aim to issue a new/changed medication in 72 hours.