Local Support Services

Care and Repair

Can assist with small home maintenance things and can also put up grab rails for a low cost.

01253 887 569

Patient Transport

If a patient is struggling to get to the hospital for an appointment as there is no one to take them.

0800 0323 240

Befriending

For people who are lonely or socially isolated, but not for people suffering with any sort of memory impairment.

befriending@wyre.gov.uk

Wyre Enhanced Primary Care (EPC)

For mobility assessments, walking equipment etc.

Call 01253 956 206

Social prescribing team

Our Social Prescribers aim is to improve patients’ health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to existing community services/groups and forming new ones.

Patients can call the practice number and press option 5 to self-refer to the team.

Call 01253 204 354

Adult social care

For getting a care package, safeguarding and big home adaptations i.e. wet room. If the person pays council tax to Wyre BC then its LCC, if they pay to Blackpool then its Blackpool.

National Support Services

Dementia UK

Dementia UK offers specialist one-to-one support and expert advice for people living with dementia.

0800 888 6678

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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.

0800 678 1602

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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

0800 4 70 80 90

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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.

01736 757 900

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