Award win for the primary care wellbeing service

Posted on: 3 November 2017

The primary care wellbeing service, commissioned by the 3 CCGs, has won a national Positive Practice in Mental Health award for primary and secondary mental health care collaboration.

Provided by Bradford District Care Trust, the service was recognised for its partnership working and innovative approach. The service runs at four GP practices across the Bradford district: Kilmeny Group Medical Practice, in Keighley, Tong Medical Practice, Moorside Surgery and Clarendon Medical Centre in Bradford.

The team, working in partnership with GPs and the practice team, includes a consultant clinical psychologist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, EMDR therapist, specialist dietician and a consultant psychiatrist. Staff work with patients with long-term illnesses or chronic diseases; and who frequently visit their doctor with physical and mental health problems, aiming to:

  • better support the patient’s long-term conditions or illness
  • improve patient care and clinical outcomes
  • reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
  • improve the quality of care.

The service has had fantastic patient feedback, including:

“I have chronic pain and the team is helping me manage this pain better. I still get anxious but, but I am seeing my GP less and going to the hospital loads less.”

“The wellbeing team are brilliant! I have never had help like this before. I have stopped slashing (self harming) and I would not have coped without them.”

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