When the Kingfisher Surgery, Buckinghamshire, noticed that some patients were continually phoning in to book appointments, consultations or home visits, they decided to investigate. Practice manager Fazilat Shivji explains how they overcame the impact of isolation. Read more…
Approximately one in five people experience depression at some stage in their life – and the figure is even higher in areas afflicted by disaster, trauma, or poverty. So it would be a lucky person indeed who avoids seeing depression in either themselves or the people they love. But here is the bad news: over the last…
A NSW government-backed social venture called the iCare Foundation funds social enterprises that want to help injured people back into work. The focus is on the social needs of people who have often become disconnected after leaving their jobs. Listen here
Primary & Community Care Services (PCCS) is helping injured workers through what it calls “social prescribing”. “Instead of prescribing medication, we prescribe social activities in groups and social services and supports,” CEO James Baker says. The program uses existing services like Men’s Shed for recovering workers, as well as its own injured worker-specific activities, like…
