Spen Health and Wellbeing Primary Care Network

24/12/2025

Don't forget to book your free Christmas Day Dinner at the Longcauseway Church in Dewsbury!

Don't spend Christmas Day alone. Contact Dewsbury Cares Community Group to book your free Christmas dinner as well as gifts from Santa and entertainment!

24/12/2025

Free wellbeing event on the 8th of January at Batley Community Centre. Head on down any time between 10.15 and 13.15.

15/12/2025

❄️ Stay safe from falls this winter! ❄️

The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and British Geriatrics Society (BGS) have shared vital advice to help prevent falls and know what to do if one happens.

If you fall:
• Stay calm and check for injuries before moving.
• If you can get up: roll onto your side, push up to hands and knees, use sturdy furniture to bring one foot flat, and stand slowly.
• If you can’t get up: use your phone or pendant alarm, call for help, try to attract attention, keep warm, and move gently to support circulation.

For full guidance and practical steps, head to 👉 https://aace.org.uk/news/winter-falls-advice/

🚨 Call 999 immediately if the person can’t get up, is confused, drowsy, vomiting, or has a suspected head, neck, back or hip injury, or severe bleeding.

Stay safe, stay warm! ❄️💙

15/12/2025

Christmas can be tough, especially if you’re struggling with your mental health or feeling lonely.

Social pressures, financial pressures, family conflict. These things can start to affect your wellbeing and snowball into something bigger.

But you’re not alone.

We’re here to support you in the lead up to Christmas and afterwards. Our Support Line is open until 2pm on Wednesday 24 December and reopens again on Monday 29 December.

You can call on 0300 102 1234. Or join our peer support community, Side by Side, open all year.

Please share this so people who feel alone know where to turn.

Samaritans, Campaign Against Living Miserably C.A.L.L and The Mix will be open while we’re closed.

15/12/2025

15/12/2025

15/12/2025

Cases of flu and RSV are rising at the moment. 🤧

Here's a reminder of how to avoid catching something, and what will help prevent you passing it on if you do.

Visit our blog post to find out more: https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/02/how-to-avoid-catching-flu-covid-19-and-other-respiratory-illnesses-this-winter/

11/12/2025

Just a reminder, today is the day! Head on down to Heckmondwike Library for your free Creative and Wellbeing workshop at 11am.

Free creative workshop helping you to relax, be mindful and destress! Drop by and see our Social Prescriber, Rehana, at Heckmondwike Library on the 11th of December.

11/12/2025

Did you know we offer Couples Therapy for Depression? 💘

Do you find yourself having the same disagreements with your partner? Does this make you feel low, and leave you wishing you could communicate more? 😓 Would you like to understand your partner more and they understand you more?

Couple Therapy for Depression can help to improve your relationship, by helping you both to work together on the things that create unhappiness, and to move on from stuck and sometimes hostile patterns of interaction. It helps you to understand each other at an emotional level as well as a practical one (how you feel and what you do). 🤝

This can lead to a happier and more fulfilling relationship in which differences between you are not so problematic. This relieves depression which in turn improves your relationship, and this positive cycle improves mood and overall emotional wellbeing. 🫂

To refer for Couples Therapy for Depression, both parties should refer to our service and would need to attend individual assessments initially, with a potential to progress to a Couple's assessment if suitable. You can refer through our website: www.kirklees-talkingtherapies.nhs.uk or by calling 01484 343700.

11/12/2025

This festive season, we’re here for you. 💜

11/12/2025

This time of year, can stir up some difficult feelings, especially if life is already feeling tough.

Please remember you’re not alone – we’re here to listen 24/7 on 116 123

Thank you to Pin Ying (Instagram:LittlePrints.art) for the beautiful illustration 💚