Other Helpful Services

 

Healthy Lifestyles Warwickshire, commissioned by Warwickshire County Council (WCC) and delivered by ICE Creates, introduces an innovative health coach model designed to help residents make positive and lasting lifestyle changes through a more joined-up and accessible approach.  

The service provides residents with a single point of contact, allowing them to access support across a range of lifestyle areas through one conversation, rather than navigating multiple separate services.

Support is available for: 

• Stopping smoking 
• Adult weight management 
• Increasing physical activity 
• Reducing alcohol consumption 

By taking a holistic approach, health coaches will work with residents to understand their individual circumstances and create tailored plans that address multiple aspects of wellbeing together. 

As part of these changes to the council’s healthy lifestyle service, NHS Health Checks are now delivered by Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Primary Care and continue to be available through GP practices across Warwickshire. This new arrangement aims to improve accessibility and increase uptake among those most at risk of developing long-term health conditions. 

Further information about Healthy Lifestyles Warwickshire, including how residents can access services and self-refer, is available at www.hlswarwickshire.org. Residents can also call 0800 1223 927 or text STARTNOW WARWICKSHIRE to 66777. Health professionals may also refer into the service at www.hlswarwickshire.org.

 

Support For Physical Health:

• British Dietetic Association (BDA)

• Obesity Empowerment Network

 

Weight management support which you can be referred to:

• Information about Healthy Lifestyles referrals for Coventry area

• Fitter Futures Warwickshire referrals

 

Community-based (Tier 2) weight management support:

• Slimming World

• Weight Watchers

 

Information about bariatric surgery: 

• British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society (BOMSS)

• Weight loss surgery information

• Patient-led online peer support group for patients who are interested in having bariatric surgery at UHCW NHS Trust, or those who have had bariatric surgery at UHCW NHS Trust please search for ‘UHCW Bariatric Friends’ support group on Facebook

 

Information about the availability and eligibility criteria for excess skin removal surgery (abdominoplasty) within the Coventry and Rugby area

• www.coventryrugbygpgateway.nhs.uk/pages/abdomenoplasty/

 

Information about related medical conditions:

• British Heart Foundation

• British Lung Foundation

• British Thoracic Society

• Diabetes UK

• Information about Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

 

For information about Fibromyalgia and community-based Fibromyalgia support groups:

• Fibromyalgia UK: including information about the locations of UK support groups in the ‘Support’ section

 

Support For Mental Wellbeing:

• Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) website for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

• Telephone number for self-referrals within Coventry and Warwickshire area: 024 7667 1090 – other numbers will be available on the internet in your locality if outside this area.

 

Address:

IAPT, Central Booking Service
City of Coventry Health Centre
Paybody Building, 2 Stoney Stanton Road
Coventry CV1 4FS

 

Additional Online and Telephone Support for Mental Wellbeing:

• MIND Website 
   
• Coventry and Warwickshire MIND
   
• Samaritans free 24 hour helpline for support:- (Dial) 116 123
   
• Samartians online

 

For eating disorders:

Eating Disorders services available within Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

 

For support with bereavement:

Cruse Bereavement Care

 

For support with the impact of sexual abuse:

• Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (CRASAC)
   
• Rape or Sexual Abuse support (RoSA)
   
• Safeline (a South Warwickshire-based support organisation)

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