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Health and well being
In Caerphilly County Borough Council area there are a variety of organisations that can offer support, advice and encouragement to assist people to improve their health and well being.
Adult Social Services
If you have any enquiry or wish to make a referral to Social Services then
Please contact us at the Adult Services Duty and Information Team
(ASDIT). We are contactable on a free phone number 0808 100 2500 between the hours of 8.30 – 5.00 Mon - Thu and 8.30-4.30 Fri.
Blackwood and District Branch Alzheimer’s Society
This aims to give support, advice and information for people with Alzheimer’s disease and similar dementias and their carers and family.
Contact Details: Mrs Margaret Walsh
01443 864299
07801046260
CALL Helpline (Community Advice and Listening Line)
For advice, information or support with mental health matters. Anyone concerned about their own mental health or that of a relative or friend can access the service.
Contact Details: 0800 132737
Monday to Friday 10am-2pm, 7pm-11pm
Saturday and Sunday 12 noon – 12 midnight
General Enquiries: 01978 366206
Caerphilly CB Crossroads
This is a national organisation providing support to carers. The main aim is to relieve the stresses experienced by carers of people with mental health problems who have care needs.
Contact Details: Ginny Fancourt, 01443 819440
Caerphilly Care for Carers
This organisation aims to provide quality care and support services in the community for carers, including a respite sitting service.
Contact Details: Caroline Gledhill, 02920 882663
Caerphilly Self Help Group
The purpose of the Caerphilly Self Help Group is to provide a warm, safe and friendly environment for people affected by depression.
Contact Details: Aeron Hughes, 02920 881730
Cruse Bereavement Care Caerphilly
Cruse Caerphilly offers one to one and group bereavement support to any one who is having difficulty in coping with the loss of someone close who has died.
Cruise help line numbers: 08701 671677 (Daytime)
08457 585565 (Evening)
Drug Alcohol Family Support
Drug Alcohol Family Support is committed to providing a professional and confidential service to families and friends of substance misusers in Gwent.
Contact Details: Mike Blanche or Chris Lewis, 01495 244623
Support Line: 01495 240824
Drugaid
This project aims to prevent the onset of substance misuse, raise awareness of substance misuse and related issues, and to reduce and minimise substance misuse.
Contact Details: Stephanie Hoffman and David Jones 02920 868675
Depression Alliance Cymru
DA Cymru works to promote mental health and quality of life and to assist in the prevention and relief of depression in Wales.
Contact Details: 02920 692891
Food Co-operatives
The aim of the food co-operatives are to supply reasonably priced fruit and vegetables to the community in areas where their current supply is inadequate or they do not have access to convenient transport to local supermarkets. Current Food Co-ops operating in the Caerphilly Area are
For more information contact
Pamela Murch 01443811402
Hannah James 07717205438 or 02920232943
Rhymney
St Davids Community Centre
Friday morning 10-11am
Cefn Hengoed
Cefn Hengoed Youth Centre, opp. playing fields of School
Wednesday morning 11-12
Markham
Markham Community Centre (Next to Markham Primary school)
Friday Morning 10-11am
Trinant
Trinant Primary School
Friday afternoon 3-3.30pm
Risca
Bethany Bapstist Church
Friday morning 10.30-11.30am
Fochriw
Fochriw Community Centre
Friday afternoon 12-1pm
Pontllanfraith
Llanarth Club, Llanarth Road, Springfield
Friday 10.30-12 noon
Gelligaer
Gelligaer Community Centre
Wednesday 11-12noon
Gilfach Fargoed
Gilfach Fargoed Community Centre Friday 12.30-1.30pm
Food Standard Agency
The FSA provides advice and information to the public and Government on food safety from farm to fork, nutrition and diet. It also protects consumers through effective food enforcement and monitoring. It also looks at reducing food borne illnesses as well as consumer choice.Websites: www.food.gov.uk, www.eatwell.gov.uk, www.salt.gov.uk www.eatsafe.gov.uk
Growing Space
This project aims to relieve sickness by the provision of therapeutic training and work experience for people who have suffered or are suffering from mental illness.
Contact Details: Joy White, 01633 810718
E-Mail: joywhite@growing-space.demon.co.uk
Health Alliance
Caerphilly Health Alliance is a partnership of organisations working together to improve the health and well being of all residents of the Caerphilly borough. It’s work priorities are centred around six themes of Tabacco Control, Obesity, Accidents and Injuries, Alcohol and other Substance Misuse, Infections and Mental Health and Well being.
For more information please contact 01495 235403.
Healthy Living Centres
Healthy Living Centres provide access to classes and activities that encourage and help people to lead healthy lifestyles. Six centres are now open in the Upper Rhymney Valley and one in Caerphilly.
Services and activities include healthy cooking and eating, exercise classes, walking or cycling, help to give up smoking, basic computers/internet, help with arthritis, looking after your teeth, advice / help with alcohol and drug problems, arts and crafts, home safety service and community transport.
Healthy Living Centres are at:
Rhymney – St Davids Centre High Street
Fochriw – Fochriw Community Centre
Abertysswg – Abertysswg Community Centre
Pontlottyn – Pontlottyn Community Centre
Deri – Deri Community Centre
New Tredegar – White Rose Information and Resource Centre
Caerphilly- Lansbury Park Community Centre
Contact Details: Andrew Leftley Healthy Living Centre Officer Upper Rhymney Valley 01443 878092
IDAP (Islwyn Drug and Alcohol Project)
This project offers help to those with problems surrounding drugs / alcohol and gambling.
Contact Details:01495 229299
Inside Out Community Arts
Inside Out provides free community arts workshops for adults to improve physical and mental well being and where people can learn new skills and meet new friends.
Contact Details: 01495 224425
Keep Well This Winter
Keep well this winter is a campaign, which aims to provide information and support to people aged 65 and over to enable them to keep well this winter. Remember the following key messages to keep well, keep warm and keep safe.
Information about the campaign is available on audio tape or CD. For a free copy or for more details about the Keep Well This Winter, please phone NHS Direct Wales on 0845 46 47 or visit the website: www.kwtw.org.uk
Keep well
For a free flu jab contact your GP OR local Health Board on 01443 863673
For a free Food Standards Agency Wales guide on eating a balanced and varied diet ring 029 2067 8999.
Meals on Wheels - Caerphilly County Borough Council 01495 235764
Extend Exercise Classes White Rose Information and Resource Centre New Tredegar 01443 878092
Keep Warm
For more information on being energy efficient, call the Energy Efficiency Advice Centres on 0800 512 012.
Need financial help to keep your home warm, call Age Concern Cymru on 029 2043 1555
Keep Safe
Feel secure, for home security advice please contact the Gwent Bobby Van Trust on 029 2085 7445.
Care and Repair offers advice and practical assistance with repairs, grants and adaptations. Please contact 01495 235393.
Mindinfoline
Information on all aspects of mental health including legal matters to service users, carers, family and friends, researchers, students, service provider and the public.
Contact Details: 0845 766 0163
NHS Direct Wales
NHS Direct Wales is a bi-lingual telephone helpline providing 24 hour health advice and information for people throughout Wales.
Contact Details: 0845 4647
National Library for Health
The Later Life Specialist Library aims to meet the needs of health care proffesionals who work with elderly people and is also freely available to the general public.
Reablement Team
This is a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals and Social Services support staff aiming to increase safety and independence in your own home. Reablement intervention is for a period of up to 6 weeks.
For further information regarding this service please contact Caerphilly Reablement Team on 01443 866955 and 01443 866954.
Rhymni Valley Mind Step-In
The Step-In Centre welcomes people with mental health issues for a chat and a cuppa. They have a “nearly new” clothes shop, a one-to-one befriending scheme, trips and outings, subsidised caravanning holidays and a small unit of supported accommodation.
Contact Details: Jill Lawton (Step-In co-ordinator) 01443 816945
Saneline
A confidential telephone helpline aimed at people in distress proving support and practical help as required.
Helpline: 0845 767 8000 (1pm-11pm) available 7 days a week.
SHADE (Self Help Against Depression)
SHADE is a self help group for adults with depression, panic attacks, anxiety and related conditions. A formal diagnosis is not necessary.
Contact Details: Sheila Twiddy 01633 619770
Julie Rowlands 01633 601277
Richard Johnson 07092 076406
South Wales Mental Health Advocacy Service
It is an independent professional service for service users and carers. It aims to provide a formal advocacy service to people who are in – and day – patients of psychiatric units and day hospitals in Caerphilly County Borough, also provide advocacy at specific resource and user centres in the borough,
Contact Details: Robert Callen-Davies 01443 829500
Supermarket Home Shopping Services
Tesco – Home shopping, grocery and wine delivery
Asda- Home shopping delivery
Somerfield- Home shopping delivery
Iceland- Home shopping delivery
Over 75 Screening Project - Caerphilly Borough
This is a District Nursing service, which delivers a key part of the National Service Framework for Older People by offering all residents of the Caerphilly Borough, aged 75 and over, a health and wellbeing check in their own homes by a qualified nurse.
The aims of Screening are to provide early detection and prevention of disease, monitoring of chronic disease, reducing accidents by simple interventions, improving quality of life and also helping to maintain independence.
Contact Details: Pam Jenkins on 01443 811324
PUBLIC HEALTH
BACKGROUND
Caerphilly Local Public Health Team is part of the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS). The aim of the Local Public Health Team is to facilitate the protection and improvement of the health and wellbeing of the people of Caerphilly County Borough, through the delivery of high quality, accessible and appropriate specialist public health services. The department’s programme of work is also designed to implement the Welsh Assembly Government public health policy. This is achieved by working strategically in partnership with local organisations such as the local authority, voluntary sector, NHS Trust and Caerphilly local health board,
HOW THE SERVICE FUNCTIONS & WHAT IT PROVIDES:
Caerphilly local public health team is a multi-disciplinary team which includes health promotion specialists and practitioners, specialist nurses and dietitians. The team works in partnership on a wide range of specific health promotion and public health initiatives, including work on the following areas:
- Nutrition
- Healthy Schools / Colleges
- Coronary Heart Disease (primary & secondary prevention)
- Physical activity
- Mental Health
- Sexual Health
- Older people
- Workplace health
- Injury prevention
- Childhood obesity
- Tobacco control
- Health protection
- Respiratory
- Inequalities in Health
- Infection control
EXAMPLES OF THE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES / PROGRAMMES OF WORK FOR OLDER PEOPLE
Moving more often is a programme to promote physical activity with frailer older people. It is a training programme for health and care workers and volunteers who work with older people and who wish to promote physical activity and learning in a range of care settings.
Patients are screened for risk of coronary heart disease by the public health primary prevention nurses. The public health dietitian provides educational support for patients who are deemed at high risk of coronary heart disease. Again regular monitoring & evaluation is conducted to ensure the content of the course is relevant to the patients.
- Coronary heart disease secondary prevention
This initiative is led by clinical nurse specialists who work in primary care to develop and establish coronary heart disease registers and support clinics for patients who have established coronary heart disease. Patients are also referred to the public health dietician, exercise specialist and smoking cessation specialist.
This initiative is led and run by the community members at various locations throughout the borough. The public health dietitian and communities first officer provide support to further develop the scheme.
- Flu and pneumococcal vaccine
Pneumococcal campaign is year round and people that reach the age of 65 or are diagnosed with a chronic illness are advised to have their vaccine at their GP.
- Inspire: respiratory project
This initiative is lead by 2 clinical nurse specialists. The aim is to develop community based chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation clinics for people within the community who suffer with this condition, manage case loads of patients who are repeatedly admitted to hospital and to provide a breathe easy support group.
This Welsh Assembly Government campaign is co-ordinated through the public health team in partnership with local organisation to provide information, advice and support for 65’s and over to warm and well during the winter months. Three key themes of KWTW are: keep warm, keep well and keep safe. The campaign runs from October to February every year.
If you would like further information on any of the above programmes of work please contact the local public health department on (01443) 811403.
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