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Specific conditions
There are a large number of local support organisations for people living with specific conditions, illnesses or disability. Please let us know about any group not listed and we will add it. Send details to: sam.wootton@cvstendring.org.uk AIDS/HIV Terence Higgins Trust - for Essex carers project contact Jo Seakins 01245 356863, mobile 07919 055294 email jo.seakins@tht.org.uk
Local groups: Alzheimer’s Society Colchester
National sites and services: Admiral Nursing DIRECT - North Essex Admiral service Tel: 01376 302714. Address: Old Ivy Chimneys, Hatfield Road, Witham , Essex CM8 1EN Horsesmouth - living well with dementia
SAFE (Supporting Asperger’s Families in Essex)
Essex Blind Charity Essex Deaf/Blind UK Clacton Deaf/blind club email: suecampbell@deafblind.org.uk Clacton Social Club for Blind and Partially Sighted. Tel: 01255 435103 Look - Services for visually impaired children and their families and carers. Tendring and District – Talking Newspaper Association Rotary Blind Club (Dovercourt) Tel: 01255 502804
Macmillan Welfare Benefits Service: This is a specialist advice service for cancer patients, their families & carers which offers support with claiming benefits, maximising income and other related issues. Advice can be given by phone or by face-to-face appointment at a Macmillan outreach clinic or at the patient’s/carer’s home . Email: macmillan@colchester.gov.uk or telephone 0800 019 6065
Colchester COPES - Gynae Cancer Support Colchester Lymphoma Support Group Colchester Head and Neck Support Group Essex Urology Cancer Support Group Gastro-Intestinal Cancer Support Group based in Colchester Search ALL Essex Cancer support groups
COPD Team at Colchester General Hospital
Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD)'s Toolkit for carers who are deaf.
See under Alzheimer's and other dementia
Diabetes UK, Colchester and East Essex Tendring Diabetes Forum 01206 286911 or linda.jewsbury@northeastessex.nhs.uk
Ask Vera – providing information for disabled people ecdp Connects Service - A service run by and for disabled people in Essex Essex Coalition of Disabled People Essex Disabled People’s Association Families in Focus - supporting families of children with disabilities and special needs Lynch Mob - Social Club for people with and without disabilities in Clacton Tendring Trust for the Disabled SCOPE in Colchester and Tendring
Open Road – Colchester NEEDAS - drug counselling Tel: 01206 287 251
COPE (Community Organisation for Problem Eating) Tel 01206 814812
Epilepsy Tendring - Call 07733 147257
Take Heart Cardiac Support Group based in Colchester
Essex Hepatitis C Support Group
Huntington’s Disease Association
Mencap Older Carers Project
Acorn Village Tel: 01206 394124
Colchester MESH(Colchester and Tendring) Action for ME - Guidance for Carers
MIND (Colchester and Tendring) Rethink (Colchester and Tendring) Tendring Mental Health Support
Motor Neurone Disease Association
Colchester and District MS Society - Telephone: 01206 382 563 MS Clacton - Telephone: 01255 815730
Parkinson’s Disease Society Colchester Parkinson’s Disease Society Tendring
Tendring Specialist Stroke Service Colchester and District Stroke Club Colchester Communication Support Service Colchester Headway (Colchester and Tendring) includes support for carers of people who have suffered a stroke NICE Quality Standard for Stroke National Stroke Strategy. This national strategy is intended to provide a quality framework to secure improvements to stroke services, to provide guidance and support to commissioners and strategic health authorities and social care, and inform the expectations of patients and their families by providing a guide to high quality health/social care services.
North Essex Stoma Support Tel:(01206) 540449 |
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