by Miia | Apr 13, 2021 | Befriending, Connecting, Dawlish Hospital, Home Help, HOPE, Quarterly Update, Social Prescribing, Statutory Sector, Supporting, Transport, Volunteering, Wellbeing Co-ordinators
What a start to 2021! We were all geared up to get stuck back in after the Christmas break, but then many of us found ourselves once more juggling home-working with home schooling as Lockdown 3 hit! Once again the resilience of our team, and the tools that we use to...
by Chloe | Apr 12, 2021 | Dawlish Hospital, News, Social Prescribing, Staff Interview, Statutory Sector, Working for VIH
Hannah Shiels has recently joined our team and will be based at Dawlish Hospital from 20th April supporting people on the ward and their families at home, throughout their stay and as they return home or perhaps make a transition into a care home. . I’ve just...
by Chloe | Apr 6, 2021 | Befriending, Empowering, Health Coaching, HOPE, Staff Interview, Statutory Sector, Transport, Volunteering
10 years ago, I felt worthless. I had no purpose in my life. My life was made up of daily visits from carers, weekly doctor appointments, and frequent hospital admissions. 10 years ago, the Community Matron suggested to me that I try some volunteering with...
by Chloe | Mar 2, 2021 | Empowering, Health Coaching, Social Prescribing, Statutory Sector, Tools, Wellbeing Co-ordinators
At its very simplest, social prescribing is about recognising that non-medical, social factors can have as much of an impact on our health and wellbeing as medications can. A Social Prescriber takes time to get to know someone and find out what sort of activities...
by Chloe | Feb 17, 2021 | Health Coaching, Prevention, Statutory Sector, Wholelife
Two of our staff took part in the first Wholelife course before Christmas, challenging them to eat a plant based diet for 28 days to see what effect it had on their health. This course was introduced following the success of the plant based challenge in early 2020....
by Chloe | Feb 9, 2021 | Coronavirus, Empowering, Health Coaching, Prevention, Social Prescribing, Statutory Sector, Wellbeing Co-ordinators, Wholelife
At the beginning of the 2020, we were part of a 28 day plant based challenge, led by local consultant gastroenterologist Dr Alan Desmond and GP Dr Jenny Corser. At Volunteering in Health we held weekly plant based bring and share lunches throughout the...
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