Health and Wellbeing Team
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The PCN Primary Care Health and Wellbeing Team provide support for patients of Honiton Surgery, Sid Valley Practice & Coleridge Medical Centre.
Aims of the Service
The PCN Health and Wellbeing Team aims to promote positive mental/physical health and wellbeing, to support individuals to move from surviving to thriving, using a goal setting approach to help you feel in control of your own health and wellbeing. The service will explore your mental health, general health, wellbeing, lifestyle factors and any barriers that may be preventing you from moving forward in your health and wellbeing journey.
Throughout the past 2 years in particular we recognise that many people may be struggling for a number of different reasons, redundancy, illness, financial issues, housing, relationships, the loss of a loved one and so much more can impact our wellbeing. The PCN Mental Health team can support you with any of these concerns and assist you to help find the best support for your unique situation.
PCN Health and Wellbeing Coaching Poster
Accessing the service
The service is available to patients of the HOSMs PCN practices. Currently patients can be referred to the service via a clinician at their own practice.
For more information on the service please see our
PCN Health and Wellbeing Team Events
Please find below information on our upcoming events. These events are open to all patients of Honiton Surgery, Sid Valley Practice & Coleridge Medical Centre.
Group Coaching - Healthy Choices: Your Plate and Beyond
Next Course starting February 2026 in Honiton (waiting list now open)
Do you know what you should be doing to support your health but struggling to put it into place?
Would you like some tools to transform your relationship with food and self image?
This 6 week in-person interactive workshop, open to patients registered at Honiton, Sidmouth and Ottery St Mary surgeries. Sessions look at barriers and blocks that you may face to support your health, particularly long-term conditions that also involves changes to diet and provide you with the tools to support yourself.
Using a goal setting approach, the sessions will involve tools to support:
- Confidence
- Self-esteem
- Healthy coping strategies
- Developing beneficial habits for long-term benefits
Some feedback from participants on the course include:
"The course helped me be more mindful around food, given useful coping strategies and changed the way I feel about food".
"The course had a huge impact. I understand more of my relationship with food and how it affects me. Its given me new strategies and a way of life".
"I have gained understanding of my body and my mind. And have started a journey of self help and love that has seeped into those loved ones around me."
The waiting list in now open, you can self-refer for the course by clicking this link
HOPE Courses
Supporting those with Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia/Chronic Pain/ME
Throughout the year we run Free 6 week in-person HOPE (Help Overcoming Problems Effectively) course available to anyone over the age of 18, living in Devon.
We have run groups on a variety of long-term chronic conditions and will be running some more this year to support those living with chronic fatigue, chronic pain and/or Fibromyalgia to manage their health & wellbeing.
The course aims to support people to feel empowered to make changes as well as to meet other people with shared experiences.
You can self-refer or via a clinician at your surgery. For more information or to register your interest please visit HOPE Programme.
One of the recent participants shared the following feedback:
“I just want to say how wonderful the course was. Getting to meet new people with similar conditions and giving me more confidence to attack my condition and my life. Although I am in the early stages and still trying to accept it you have both given me hope. You were both amazing and understanding to us all where in life others may not be. The course was delivered with the utmost professionalism and was very engaging at all times. You have given me a mindset that at some stage in the future I would like to be able to help others. I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would highly recommend this course to anyone”.
Meet The Team
Abigail Dawson - Senior Health and Wellbeing Coach
Simon Mitchell - Health and Wellbeing Coach
Jessie Bright - Health and Wellbeing Coach
Jan Haskings - Health and Wellbeing Coach
Cheryl Elliott - Social Prescribing Link Worker
Local Support Services
We have collated support services that are available locally to provide support and advice for a range of conditions and circumstances. Please click on the leaflets below for more information.
Support for Suicide Bereavement
Children & Young People Neurodiversity Support
